I'm puzzled how we feel more pain at night when we have a pain somewhere on our body.When you have flu, it gets worse at night with nose congestion, coughing gets worse at night than during daytime, you name the physical systoms when you're sick, it's always more of a struggle at night when one want to sleep peacefully. Why?
2007-03-26 01:12:23 · 17 answers · asked by She-whom-shall-not-be-named 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Because that's usually when everything going on starts winding down--the kids are in bed, works over, etc--and we have less to take our minds off of what's bothering us and more time to feel it. Also, you're laying down, which makes it harder to breathe than if you were upright.
2007-04-01 14:24:51 · answer #1 · answered by dmarie2101 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Usually our symptoms are worse at night for three reasons.
First, the concentration of acid in the stomach is higher at night. This reacts with our brain, telling us to feel sick or nauseated.
Second, in the lying position, it is easier for acid to reflux to remain in the esophagus. Gravity does not take the acid back down into the stomach, which can make you feel sick and cause you to cough and have a runny nose more so than during the day.
Third, while we are sleeping, we don't swallow. Swallowing is important because it carries the acid that has refluxed into the esophagus back into the stomach. When we swallow we also carry saliva (which carries alot of bacteria when we have colds and flu) through the esophagus and into the stomach.
Also our bodies 'secadium' (I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling) ryhthyms are at there lowest at night when our brain is programming us to sleep, as opposed to the day when our brain is distracted when were up and active.
Hope this was some help, and you feel better soon!
:-)
2007-04-02 15:31:20 · answer #2 · answered by axix9 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think cause at night, your laying down rather then moving during the day. and everything is starting to come up like congestion. and other things. that's why the doctor say lay upright when you have a cold so everything can go down. and you get better faster. i do it every time i get sick and i feel better the very next day.
2007-04-02 15:41:55 · answer #3 · answered by ♥♥♥ H☮TMAMA ♥♥♥ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the birds have been singing all day, the neighbor's dog has been barking his *** off and the tap has been dripping since the last time you did the dishes... but all these things annoy you only when you want to sleep.
the same thing with pain, cause you are more relaxed!!!!
2007-04-02 04:36:53 · answer #4 · answered by grace g 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because we relax and have time to think of how bad we feel I got a sinus infection and got to work I think I move into my doctor office lol
2007-04-02 14:37:18 · answer #5 · answered by marsh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it's because you are tired much more than you are during the rest of the day and your body is warning you to get some sleep and get it soon
2007-04-02 11:10:47 · answer #6 · answered by h>>> 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question wish I had an answer. But, you are so right that's the way it seems to work.
2007-04-02 07:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by Garnet 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because of the night air if we are sick and because of the long period of silence at night when we have problems on our mind
2007-04-02 03:31:41 · answer #8 · answered by Mississippi's Jersey girl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because you aren't as distracted as you are during the day
2007-04-03 00:51:51 · answer #9 · answered by Susan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the doctor's office is closed.
2007-03-26 01:16:46 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle *The Truth Hurts 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋