He or she might start by checking your weight and height, as well as your blood pressure and maybe your temperature. 1  Blood pressure: This shows how hard your heart is pumping blood throughout your body. A cuff that gets tighter and tighter on your arm is used to measure this.
And people who sleep 8 hr. or more, or less than 6.5 hr., they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short. The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hr. Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a little worse than sleeping 5 hr.
Much depends on when you need to or are able to wake up each day, and how much sleep you are getting. 1  There is some variation from person to person, but generally adults need 7.5 to 8.5 hours of sleep per day. 2  Children (5 years old and up) and teenagers will need more sleep than this, ranging from 8.5 to 11 hours.