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61. When You Have Trouble Waking Up
    
    Brian Cyphers has always had trouble falling asleep at a "normal" hour. A few years ago, when the 24-year-old Chicagoan was dozing off between 3 and 5 in the morning and had to wake up at 6:30 to get to his job as a data entry clerk at a lab, he knew it was time to seek help. Cyphers sought assistan
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62. Can’t Sleep? Adjust the Temperature
    
    Tony Roy is among the 30% of American adults with insomnia-related problems. “I can go to sleep, but I wake up three or four hours later,” says Roy, a 51-year-old philosophy professor at California State University, San Bernardino. When he sought help at the nearby Sleep Disorders Center at Loma Lin
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63. The Health Risks of Shift Work
    
    In the U.S., about 8.6 million people perform shift work, whether they have a night job or rotate shifts during the week. For many, it's a rite of passage in their careers; for others, it's a financial necessity. But there's a growing sense that shift work could be taking a serious toll on their hea
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64. When Aches and Pains Disrupt Sleep
    
    For millions of women in the U.S., pain -- whether it's back pain, menstrual pain, lupus pain, or fibromyalgia -- causes a lot of sleepless nights. According to the National Sleep Foundation, 25% of women say that physical discomfort interrupts their sleep at least three nights each week. And while
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65. Moms and Sleep Deprivation
    
    For many moms, constant sleep deprivation is a standard feature of motherhood -- just like blouses stained with spit-up and Cheerios crumbs in every purse. And it's not only sleep-deprived mothers of newborns who are dragging. Whether you have a preschooler demanding encores of You Are My Sunshine a
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66. Shift Work: How to Handle Sleep, Life
    
    Patricia Rose Brewster works the night shift. A fiber optics engineer in El Paso, Texas, Brewster, 50, has been clocking out and going to bed past dawn for the last 30 years. She wouldn’t have it any other way. "I love working nights," she says. "People are friendlier, more laid back. You can get mo
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67. Fighting Off Sleepiness: Myths and Facts
    
    Americans are sleepy. In fact, sleepiness affects the daily activities of 40% of us, say sleep exerts at Stanford University. No wonder we cling to so many fallacies about how to get by on little sleep. But what really works? What’s just a myth? Here are the facts. Fact: A quick nap can dispel dayti
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68. Pain: The Sleep Thief
    
    Your back is throbbing and has been for weeks. You can barely move from your bed, but you are not getting any sleep because of the intense pain. This is a pretty common scenario, explains David Neumeyer, MD, the associate director of the Sleep Disorder Center at theLahey Clinic Medical Center in Bur
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69. When Sleep Problems Cause Sex Problems
    
    By the time people with sleep problems come to the Penn Sleep Centers at the University of Pennsylvania, many of them are no longer sleeping with their spouses. “People who have trouble sleeping often develop elaborate routines over time,” says Phil Gehrman, PhD, CBSM, assistant professor of psychia
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70. Too Sleepy for Sex?
    
    Too tired for sex? Join the club. Up to 50% of U.S. adults skip or avoid sex because they're too tired, recent polls show. It’s no wonder. The workday can extend long into the night, many couples have children and pets to tend to, and everyone has diversions that tempt their attention away from thei
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