There's a reason to lose the nightlight, but you don't have to if you don't want to. I like some light in my room and I have some blue lights that shine around the floor. Not much, just enough to give a glow so I'm not in the pitch blackness. I have my reasons! And so do you.

There have been tons of news reports lately about the dangers of sleeping with light in the room. It disrupts the circadian rhythm and can cause physical and mental health problems, including insomnia. I'm a chronic insomniac. I've been trying to lose the light. I'm pretty sure I feel more energetic in the daytime when I sleep in total darkness.

Light prevents melatonin from being formed properly in our bodies and that disrupts our sleep cycle. So I take melatonin. I've got my furniture arranged so the full moon can shine in through two different windows and the morning sun hits me full in the face. I love it and I'm not changing it.

My primary care guy has been telling me to sleep in a darkened room. No lights. Maybe I will and maybe I won't. I understand the reasons why he's advocating it. It's for my health and longevity. Those are the health reasons. I sleep with the light for other reasons. So it goes. Really, we have nothing to be embarrassed about. We have our reasons. Pretty good ones. My doc and your T will have to get used to it as we make our own choices on this.