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Re: No REM period (???)

Posted by sleepyinalbany on April 28, 2003 at 17:59:57:

In Reply to: Re: No REM period (???) posted by Hugo A. on April 25, 2003 at 20:34:45:

240 minute TST = about 4hours

the two drugs you take, effexor(a heterocyclic antidepressant), and clonazepam (a benzodiazepine) have both shown in multiple research studies to lengthen REM onset and reduce REM sleep state percentage in a great deal of patients

looking at the numbers from your sleep study (in conjunction with your meds) I would say it is completely normal it could be a very simple matter of your medication not allowing you to get into REM early enough, usually a person will hit their first REM period 90-120 minutes into sleep, perhaps you need much longer, and you only slept for 4 hours, I have seen plenty of people who won't hit their first REM cycle until 5-6hrs into their sleep, no problem

I highly doubt there was any instrument or scoring error

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