How can I decrease my amount of REM sleep?
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 at
11:48 pm
My psychiatrist suspects that I spend too much time in the REM stage of sleep. He mentioned a sleep study perhaps in the future, but is there anything I can do NOW to decrease the amount of time I spend in REM sleep?
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Spending too much time in REM sleep is strongly indicative of Narcolepsy. The only way to suppress REM sleep is with a specialty drug called Xyrem which causes the body to correctly go through the sleep cycle rather than always be in REM sleep. So, right now, no there is nothing you can do but to wait until after the sleep study (and I’m assuming a multiple sleep-latency test which is a nap study) until you get the results so the doctor can properly treat you.
Best of luck to you!
stay awake.