I only wish I lived closer to you as I have learned MORE from you after joining a year ago than I have from the Neurologist who has been treating me since 2002. Thank you so much for your knowledge and especially for your "delivery" when explaining ALL things. May God bless you and guide you to continue to help so many. Thank you Dr Boster ❤
Me too, I was actually arrested for a DWI a few years ago before I was diagnosed. I had maybe an hour of sleep each night, and I was working 10-12 hr days an hour and a half from my house. Basically, I was moving 13-15 hrs a day just for work and then caring for my livestock at home. SO, I got really angry one night and took a benadryl, woke up late, jumped into my clothes, and raced to work. I knew that I was speeding, but I didn't realize how badly. Anyway, speeding, benadryl, unknown MS, and I was pulled over, it WAS my fault because i was speeding.....I fought it for a year and a half, but I finally capitulated because I was missing work at least once a month for a 5 minute court appearance that was interfering in some obligations that I had. Now I have a drug conviction, I thought that when i pled guilty that it would show up as a medication, and it is really eating at me emotionally.
Thanks Dr. Boster. Excellent tips! I recently read Matthew Walker’s book Why We Sleep and was amazed by the repercussions on our health if we don’t get enough sleep.
I’m all ready to get great sleep!!!! Tonight- I shall be called “ Desire’ Empress of the Night” who sleeps 8 hours straight…. I’m gonna prepare! #Sharingiscaring Great tips Doc
II was directed to your channel by someone in one of my FB MS groups. I've learned more about spasticity and treatments for it the last half hour than I have in the last 3 years! Thank you! Your channel is priceless! 😀
Thank you Dr Boster- awesome tips for good restful sleep which is so essential to live your best life! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course.” - always loved that quote❣️
I am so busy; I don't nap at all. If I need a rest, I will only allow myself 15 mins. to rest in my bed and elevate my legs as my couch is in a room where others reside. This allows my mind and body to reset before I move on to my next task which is usually making dinner. I am now into my 13th year of MS, and as I reflect, I needed more naps at the onset of the disease. Maybe, I learned to better manage my energy and tasks better. Listen to your body and plan the day accordingly.
Dr. B, this is awesome information...the technique to sleeping is a good point.. I particularly like the points on liquids. You're a great doctor for sharing these ideas with us. Take care👍🏽💕
Thank you so much for these tips! I have MS and recently began my second job again a few months ago (I work mon-fri 9-5 and I returned to bartending Friday night and Saturday night) and since, my sleep and rest schedule has completely gone down the toilet making the week days feel long and exhausting. I am Def going to try some of these tips to help it get back on track!
Thank you! You mention my biggest problem, children parading in and out all night - have to fix their sleep before I can fix mine!! They are little so easier said than done unfortunately.
Oh yeah, and my best tip to go back to sleep in the middle of the night is to listen to scripture on my headphones. It really works to stop my brain from overthinking.
Don't forget to dish out the LDN. Harmless, inexpensive, and it does wonders. I credit to it a decent night's sleep. Shana Tova from Jerusalem! 🍎 🍯 ⚖️ ✒ 📖 🙏
Great video as always. I never manage to get 8h of sleep during workweek. Life happens. I stay alive by taking 20minute power naps. Dr B: You need 8h of sleep per day Me: Best I can do is 6 😀
here's a curveball in sleep deprivation. I have been fighting a diagnosis but it had some fantastic parameters that nobody seemed to figure out. My intractable vomiting, all due to an undiagnosed metabolic acidosis where my electrolytes flushed from my system. Treating me with anti-emitting antihistamines kept me puking less but did nothing for rehydration or restoring my low potassium and magnesium and vitamin D while my calcium remained high due to accelerated calcium resorption outpaced bone formation . Meanwhile I have discovered my c2/c3 sloppy vertebrae is pinching, causing wild fluctuations in my BP and O2 levels. .Felt like brain damage
I learned a lot from this video, but I'm handicapped and unable to safely get out of the bed myself, most days I'm left in my bed even though I'm awake because I can't get the help I need at the moment I need it. As for naps, I have to be in the bedroom to take them because that's where my cpap is and I'm in a powerchair that tilts back almost all day.
Is it normal for MSers to be so fatigued no matter how much you sleep? What suggestions do you have for those on stimulants? I feel like it makes sleep more difficult for me. I cant even nap. Im on strongest dose of vyvanse just to get a few hrs of being able to function. Trying to work on these while waiting for my sleep test for possible central sleep apnea 😁 These tips are the ones I was given from the sleep center so I think this is great you are teaching everyone this!!!! You are such a blessing 🙌 💓
Really needed this video! I've struggled with insomnia since childhood and it's even worse since the MS dx. I feel very sleepy and accidentally nap most mornings which makes things worse, so I'm hoping some of these tips help, even if a little. Thank you!
I understand that all these suggestions are for people that walk. I don't walk. I need suggestions that are going to help me figure out what to do when I spend most of my time in bed.
Thank you for you continual good information! Thankfully I sleep very well but I do have a question: Do you have any information regarding treating MS with Ischemic Preconditioning?
Yep 👍 I can't sleep good because sometimes my back play up and I have to stay for a while then I can to sleep sometimes I wake up quickly I can cough and cough so I get but nothing seems to work like drinking water take some lollies I will can't sleep sometimes I stay all night 🌃
I have only had sleep issue since going on a DMT/Ocrevus. Since the 1st half a month ago, have slept horrible with all parameters the same i.e dark, no tv/phone, same bed time 10pm/wake time 6am, no animals/kids, and no napping during the day. Is that a common complaint when starting Ocrevus? Or something else?
I don't nap, I wake same time every day, cool room, melatonin ect, every possible thing there is on top of your advice by sleep experts. Now given mirtatzapin, that affects weight gain. Any tips?
I was once diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea, long before MS Dx. I lost over 80 lbs in weight and things improved. But now I’m being scheduled for a sleep study because they think that I might be fighting Central sleep apnea. That’s when the central nervous system decides to not let me breathe correctly. I’m trapping CO2, not exhaling completely. I was taking things for sleep that barely work and I wonder if they aren’t adding to the problem via poly pharmacy. Edible cannabis right before bed is finally getting me some sleep.
Is insomnia common amongst ms sufferers? I’ve been a terrible sleeper for years and I work hard at all the tips in this video to try and stay on a good sleep routine. Sleep is essential to being in a better mood.
Hi Aaron, Can you do a video on how to get sick less often even when immunosuppressed? Taking Kesimpta for a while now and am sick every single week...
Hi Doctor! I'm preparing for diagnosis, probably going to hospital in few months. I've got characteristic brain changes, but none of them are contrast - enhanced, and with my neurologist we excluded other illnesses such as borreliosis etc, BUT, I have been having only mild symptoms. One episode of drastic vertigo about 9 years ago and after that all symptoms are mainly: hand shaking, muscle spasticity and cramps, muscle strength weakness, pain and overwhelming fatigue. I'm wondering if this really can be MS, since I don't have any "spectacular" things, such as Lhermits, NO etc. Is there a chance that my MS is less "dramatic" than the stories we can see on the Internet? 🤔
I have a question Dr. B! I've known about sleep restriction, but I worry about implementing it because my feet symptoms (spasticity and pain) get so bad immediately with even one night of not getting enough hours of sleep. They go from feeling normal to horrible. So I've always worried that I would be doing permanent MS damage to them to do the 3-4 weeks of sleep training required. Is this true? Or is it not new damage and it's just suffering with some increased symptoms for awhile that will go back to my normal with good sleep later. Basically, I find that I need to be asleep for 7.5 hours to feel great, that usually takes me 9-10 hours of in bed time. But I'd rather have much higher efficiency and get that 7.5 hours in 8 hours of in bed time. If I sleep restrict to 8 hours, I'll probably be getting around 6 hours of sleep for a bit. And I worried that would lead to a relapse or pseudo-relapse. So I didn't know if it's better to slowly reduce the hours in bed from 10 to 9.5 to 9 to 8.5 to 8 for example or to do what all sleep CBT-I specialists say and sleep restrict first and slowly increase once your efficiency is high.
Any tips on what to do when I consistently wake up at 4:30 AM instead of 6? I have already locked in my 10 PM bedtime. I stop drinking water between 5 & 7, except the mouthful I need for my DMT at 7. I don't think it's a need to urinate that wakes me, because I only feel the need to go after laying there trying to get back to sleep for 5 minutes. I will be starting to use a CPAP when it arrives for my sleep apnea. I'm hoping that helps. But, still looking for other ideas.
2 drops of lemon even in the morning, makes me peeing the whole night. Everything that contains c vitamin/diuretics.. For sleeping, I found Tryptophan the best solution. I get good, quality sleep and next day I feel really good 😊
I like to save time and energy so I sleep while having sex. 😉😉😂😂 I just thought I'd throw that out there 😂😂 Really though -- all your suggestions are great remedies. I have followed pretty much all of them for the past 10 years and they are very helpful. Sadly though, I've had to banish the cat from my bedroom too. She can sleep in the other room with my husband but at least she has a good home!!
Hi, I'm sorry to get so personal here but.... you've lost some weight and I'm wondering if the guy that works so hard to care for us, is actually okay himself. 🥺
I only wish I lived closer to you as I have learned MORE from you after joining a year ago than I have from the Neurologist who has been treating me since 2002. Thank you so much for your knowledge and especially for your "delivery" when explaining ALL things. May God bless you and guide you to continue to help so many. Thank you Dr Boster ❤
I can count on one hand the times that I have slept all night in at least 3-4 years.
Me too, I was actually arrested for a DWI a few years ago before I was diagnosed. I had maybe an hour of sleep each night, and I was working 10-12 hr days an hour and a half from my house. Basically, I was moving 13-15 hrs a day just for work and then caring for my livestock at home. SO, I got really angry one night and took a benadryl, woke up late, jumped into my clothes, and raced to work. I knew that I was speeding, but I didn't realize how badly. Anyway, speeding, benadryl, unknown MS, and I was pulled over, it WAS my fault because i was speeding.....I fought it for a year and a half, but I finally capitulated because I was missing work at least once a month for a 5 minute court appearance that was interfering in some obligations that I had.
Now I have a drug conviction, I thought that when i pled guilty that it would show up as a medication, and it is really eating at me emotionally.
Thank you for the the Monday morning video. Doug coffee in hand from Lyndhurst.
Morning!
Thanks Dr. Boster. Excellent tips! I recently read Matthew Walker’s book Why We Sleep and was amazed by the repercussions on our health if we don’t get enough sleep.
I’m all ready to get great sleep!!!!
Tonight- I shall be called “ Desire’ Empress of the Night” who sleeps 8 hours straight…. I’m gonna prepare!
#Sharingiscaring
Great tips Doc
I really like the cat getting into the plant at the beginning
#WeHaveMS #StrongerTogether
Absolutely ❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Positive thoughts bring positive vibes
II was directed to your channel by someone in one of my FB MS groups. I've learned more about spasticity and treatments for it the last half hour than I have in the last 3 years! Thank you! Your channel is priceless! 😀
Thank you Dr Boster- awesome tips for good restful sleep which is so essential to live your best life! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course.” - always loved that quote❣️
I love your channel. It’s helped me so much. Btw glamour magazines from the 80s are magnificent.
Plumbing code makes excellent night time reading.
One of my symptoms with ms is that I suffer from insomnia. I have tried all sleep hygiene techniques and all your tips, nothing helps.
I am so busy; I don't nap at all. If I need a rest, I will only allow myself 15 mins. to rest in my bed and elevate my legs as my couch is in a room where others reside. This allows my mind and body to reset before I move on to my next task which is usually making dinner. I am now into my 13th year of MS, and as I reflect, I needed more naps at the onset of the disease.
Maybe, I learned to better manage my energy and tasks better. Listen to your body and plan the day accordingly.
Dr. B, this is awesome information...the technique to sleeping is a good point.. I particularly like the points on liquids.
You're a great doctor for sharing these ideas with us.
Take care👍🏽💕
Thank you so much for these tips!
I have MS and recently began my second job again a few months ago (I work mon-fri 9-5 and I returned to bartending Friday night and Saturday night) and since, my sleep and rest schedule has completely gone down the toilet making the week days feel long and exhausting.
I am Def going to try some of these tips to help it get back on track!
Very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! You mention my biggest problem, children parading in and out all night - have to fix their sleep before I can fix mine!! They are little so easier said than done unfortunately.
Thanks for the tips Dr. Boster! 😴
Sleep is so incredibly important! These are some excellent tips!
Good afternoon Dr A.B watching from South Africa 🇿🇦
Oh yeah, and my best tip to go back to sleep in the middle of the night is to listen to scripture on my headphones. It really works to stop my brain from overthinking.
Don't forget to dish out the LDN. Harmless, inexpensive, and it does wonders. I credit to it a decent night's sleep. Shana Tova from Jerusalem! 🍎 🍯 ⚖️ ✒ 📖 🙏
Great video as always. I never manage to get 8h of sleep during workweek. Life happens. I stay alive by taking 20minute power naps.
Dr B: You need 8h of sleep per day
Me: Best I can do is 6 😀
Thank you so much for this video, I need my sleep so much.
here's a curveball in sleep deprivation. I have been fighting a diagnosis but it had some fantastic parameters that nobody seemed to figure out. My intractable vomiting, all due to an undiagnosed metabolic acidosis where my electrolytes flushed from my system. Treating me with anti-emitting antihistamines kept me puking less but did nothing for rehydration or restoring my low potassium and magnesium and vitamin D while my calcium remained high due to accelerated calcium resorption outpaced bone formation . Meanwhile I have discovered my c2/c3 sloppy vertebrae is pinching, causing wild fluctuations in my BP and O2 levels. .Felt like brain damage
I learned a lot from this video, but I'm handicapped and unable to safely get out of the bed myself, most days I'm left in my bed even though I'm awake because I can't get the help I need at the moment I need it. As for naps, I have to be in the bedroom to take them because that's where my cpap is and I'm in a powerchair that tilts back almost all day.
I love your videos! Always so helpful
Is it normal for MSers to be so fatigued no matter how much you sleep? What suggestions do you have for those on stimulants? I feel like it makes sleep more difficult for me. I cant even nap. Im on strongest dose of vyvanse just to get a few hrs of being able to function.
Trying to work on these while waiting for my sleep test for possible central sleep apnea 😁
These tips are the ones I was given from the sleep center so I think this is great you are teaching everyone this!!!! You are such a blessing 🙌 💓
I hope you’re sleeping soon! 😊 it’s about 10 pm in Ohio. 😴💤🌖🌝🕯
Thank you doctor for your advice it’s very important
0:12 👏
Thank you, great information 💕
Great video, too bad I fell to sleep. Just kidding you are the BEST, thank you for all you do. I have tried several of your recommendations.
Really needed this video! I've struggled with insomnia since childhood and it's even worse since the MS dx. I feel very sleepy and accidentally nap most mornings which makes things worse, so I'm hoping some of these tips help, even if a little. Thank you!
I understand that all these suggestions are for people that walk. I don't walk. I need suggestions that are going to help me figure out what to do when I spend most of my time in bed.
Thank you for you continual good information! Thankfully I sleep very well but I do have a question: Do you have any information regarding treating MS with Ischemic Preconditioning?
Yep 👍 I can't sleep good because sometimes my back play up and I have to stay for a while then I can to sleep sometimes I wake up quickly I can cough and cough so I get but nothing seems to work like drinking water take some lollies I will can't sleep sometimes I stay all night 🌃
I have only had sleep issue since going on a DMT/Ocrevus. Since the 1st half a month ago, have slept horrible with all parameters the same i.e dark, no tv/phone, same bed time 10pm/wake time 6am, no animals/kids, and no napping during the day. Is that a common complaint when starting Ocrevus? Or something else?
I ❤️ your cat walking behind you at start!! I think more videos with Kitty😸
Dr. Boster, have you heard of NAD+ IV therapy to treat MS? Would you do a video on that topic?
20 year military career messed with my sleep and circadian rhythm plus MS and a brain that can't unwind makes sleep very difficult
I don't nap, I wake same time every day, cool room, melatonin ect, every possible thing there is on top of your advice by sleep experts. Now given mirtatzapin, that affects weight gain. Any tips?
I was once diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea, long before MS Dx. I lost over 80 lbs in weight and things improved. But now I’m being scheduled for a sleep study because they think that I might be fighting Central sleep apnea. That’s when the central nervous system decides to not let me breathe correctly. I’m trapping CO2, not exhaling completely. I was taking things for sleep that barely work and I wonder if they aren’t adding to the problem via poly pharmacy. Edible cannabis right before bed is finally getting me some sleep.
Good morning Dr. B.😊
What if I am bed redden
Is insomnia common amongst ms sufferers? I’ve been a terrible sleeper for years and I work hard at all the tips in this video to try and stay on a good sleep routine. Sleep is essential to being in a better mood.
6am even on the weekends?! Cruelty!
Hi Aaron,
Can you do a video on how to get sick less often even when immunosuppressed?
Taking Kesimpta for a while now and am sick every single week...
I am afraid of the blackness. I had something happen to me over 20 years ago. Therapy has helped me but the darkness is a huge issue for me. 😢
Hi Doctor! I'm preparing for diagnosis, probably going to hospital in few months. I've got characteristic brain changes, but none of them are contrast - enhanced, and with my neurologist we excluded other illnesses such as borreliosis etc, BUT, I have been having only mild symptoms. One episode of drastic vertigo about 9 years ago and after that all symptoms are mainly: hand shaking, muscle spasticity and cramps, muscle strength weakness, pain and overwhelming fatigue. I'm wondering if this really can be MS, since I don't have any "spectacular" things, such as Lhermits, NO etc. Is there a chance that my MS is less "dramatic" than the stories we can see on the Internet? 🤔
Do you recommend sleep sound like rain to go to sleep?
I have a question Dr. B! I've known about sleep restriction, but I worry about implementing it because my feet symptoms (spasticity and pain) get so bad immediately with even one night of not getting enough hours of sleep. They go from feeling normal to horrible. So I've always worried that I would be doing permanent MS damage to them to do the 3-4 weeks of sleep training required. Is this true? Or is it not new damage and it's just suffering with some increased symptoms for awhile that will go back to my normal with good sleep later. Basically, I find that I need to be asleep for 7.5 hours to feel great, that usually takes me 9-10 hours of in bed time. But I'd rather have much higher efficiency and get that 7.5 hours in 8 hours of in bed time. If I sleep restrict to 8 hours, I'll probably be getting around 6 hours of sleep for a bit. And I worried that would lead to a relapse or pseudo-relapse. So I didn't know if it's better to slowly reduce the hours in bed from 10 to 9.5 to 9 to 8.5 to 8 for example or to do what all sleep CBT-I specialists say and sleep restrict first and slowly increase once your efficiency is high.
Any tips on what to do when I consistently wake up at 4:30 AM instead of 6? I have already locked in my 10 PM bedtime. I stop drinking water between 5 & 7, except the mouthful I need for my DMT at 7. I don't think it's a need to urinate that wakes me, because I only feel the need to go after laying there trying to get back to sleep for 5 minutes. I will be starting to use a CPAP when it arrives for my sleep apnea. I'm hoping that helps. But, still looking for other ideas.
😴 ☁️🍭 Sweet dreams everyone! 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛🌖🌝🕯
Bed is for sleep and sex, and we should be able to tell them
apart. 😂
FACTS!
🔥🔥🌄🔥🔥
2 drops of lemon even in the morning, makes me peeing the whole night. Everything that contains c vitamin/diuretics..
For sleeping, I found Tryptophan the best solution. I get good, quality sleep and next day I feel really good 😊
2:46 😊💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦🚒💛💛💛💛💛💛
Hi, Aaron! 😊💛😻🐶🥚🐣🐥🦖💛
❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮
I get 6 to 7 hours of sleep
I like to save time and energy so I sleep while having sex. 😉😉😂😂 I just thought I'd throw that out there 😂😂 Really though -- all your suggestions are great remedies. I have followed pretty much all of them for the past 10 years and they are very helpful. Sadly though, I've had to banish the cat from my bedroom too. She can sleep in the other room with my husband but at least she has a good home!!
Hi, I'm sorry to get so personal here but.... you've lost some weight and I'm wondering if the guy that works so hard to care for us, is actually okay himself. 🥺