Topic starter: Most adults need between six and eight hours per night to function at their peak.
Personally, I have serious problems sleeping. Years ago, my then girlfriend asked me to see a Doctor, she said i would wake up all through the night choking and gasping for air. I did a sleep study and I was waking up about two hundred times a night trying to catch my breath, all this I never knew, only that I snored heavily.
Under my insurance I was issued a CPAP machine, The only thing i was just not comfortable with it. I informed the Doctor I would not wear it. So we decide on surgery. In surgery my uvula was removed for better airflow, and my nostrils were opened up wider, which the Doctor said is still smaller passage than a normal person afterwards.
After surgery, I had a really bad mucus drainage problem for about four years, but I slept much better and did not have the loud snoring problem. Fifteen years later I now will sleep and wake up every two hours, sometimes less, and it is hard to go back to sleep, so I average about four hours a day sleep. Which causes me to walk around like a zombie, feeling tired all the time. I have to push myself really hard to get my exercise any day. Specifically hard due to I now have Type II diabetes also.
