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The Sleep Industrial Complex - 11/18/2007 11:38:49 AM

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A sleep boom, or as Forbes put it last year, “a sleep racket,” is under way. Business 2.0 estimates American “sleeponomics” to be worth $20 billion a year, which includes everything from the more than 1,000 accredited sleep clinics (some of them at spas) conducting overnight tests for disorders like apnea, to countless over-the-counter and herbal sleep aids, to how-to books and sleep-encouraging gadgets and talismans. Zia Sleep Sanctuary, a first of its kind luxury sleep store that I visited in Eden Prairie, Minn., carries “light-therapy” visors, the Zen Alarm Clock, the Mombasa Majesty mosquito net and a $600 pair of noise-canceling earplugs as well as 16 varieties of mattresses and 30 different pillows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18sleep-t.html?em&ex=1195534800&en=5f722fdfece9b6a3&ei=5087%0A

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RE: The Sleep Industrial Complex - 11/18/2007 12:32:41 PM

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LOL a $600 mosquito net? LOL.

-funny enough- i had been on a med that was quite pricey. of course generic is not available in the US -but elsewhere it is. after seeing my psychiatrist- and describing it to him- he perscribed a better rx. so now i dont need expensive stuff-

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RE: The Sleep Industrial Complex - 11/18/2007 3:44:46 PM

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Yea, my brother is paying for my lunestra, because i cannot afford it. i would have to spend $150/mo to get the drug and there's no generic that works as well. i have also had a sleep study done (again) and this time the results showed my oxygen saturation is too low when i'm asleep, thus explaining why i am suffering insomnia. They wanted to prescribe me an oxygen tank to sleep with but my insurance covered only 70% of the cost, so no way could i afford it.

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