Common side effects which Nice says have been reported for Ritalin include weight loss, sleep problems, growth retardation and nervous tics, although some of these seem to be dose-related.
There are times when I feel that at the ripe old age of 57, I should conserve those resources for a younger person, but then I watch an hour's worth of daytime television and I see the money wasted by pharmaceutical companies on advertisements for drugs for people who have too much or too little of the following: incontinence, tingling in legs, hair loss, sleep, sexual drive or depression.
And for those who are focused on weight loss, sleep also may play a role.
Accounts by those around Napoleon in his last years are full of allusions to physical problems--such as light sensitivity, hair loss, sleep problems, and neurological symptoms--consistent with arsenic poisoning, he says.
Astronauts are susceptible to a variety of health risks including decompression sickness, barotrauma, immunodeficiencies, loss of bone and muscle, orthostatic intolerance due to volume loss, sleep disturbances, and radiation injury.
Somatic symptoms such as weight loss, sleep disturbances, and pessimism about the future, are common symptoms of depression among younger people.
Analyses of the BDI in this study did not include items concerning weight loss, sleeping disturbance and work inhibition [ 44].
Therefore, items associated with weight loss, sleeping disturbance and work inhibition were excluded in this study [ 50].
Sleep loss, long-term sleep deprivation, and perceived insufficient rest/sleep are common in modern society[1].
"The loss of sleep is becoming a health issue actually".
