6/21/2023 0 Comments Wake me up at 5 30Sorry to hear about your lifelong chronic insomnia problem. I just started a new hob, or rather i was transferred to a new location. I heard it isn’t possible to get sleep back. On Saturdays after my grocery shopping I am so tired I take a 4 hour long nap and then i sleep in on Sundays till 6 am after going to sleep at 1p pm Saturday night. I depend on caffeine now to get me through my work days. Hyperarousal begins and I have to just get up. When I wake up I usually have to go to the bathroom. I have chronic pain from an accident, so I take Gabapentin and I have a little bit of Diazepam for panic attacks since the accident caused PTSD. I feel like my nose is clogged when I lie down. I do dream earlier in the night, but I set my alarm for 4 am. I’m Debby I keep waking up at 3 am as well. If you have any thoughts I’d be more than appreciative. It’s as though I am using every inch of energy I have just to brush my hair and teeth. When I need to work I wake up w alarm at 8:00 (looking and feeling like crap). I fall asleep (around 4-5 am) and on my days off I wake up around 8:45. I go back to bed and ruminate for the next 1-2 hours. And like Julia I do get the urge to urinate but nothing really there. I’m trying to pay close attention to the subtleties and clues and so far the only thing I can figure out is that around that time I am definitely in REM bc I am dreaming, but also my body temperature seems to change or get much warmer. I am female in my 50’s and believe it may be a hormonal thing but not 100% sure. Dark cold room, sleeping pills, eat, no eat, cry and pray. For the life of me I cannot figure out why. I am dealing w the same exact thing I can fall asleep no problem but have been waking up religiously at 3am like a robot my eyes just pop open. However, I believe it’s something else, perhaps sleep maintenance insomnia as mentioned above in your article re: Julia. I’ve been dealing with sleep disorder since 2017, where I was dx via sleep study w hypersomnia. I would love some advice as my doctor is now wary of prescribing more drugs, and I’m wary of taking them. So between stress, very low BP and maybe not enough aerobic exercise, am I just screwed until (maybe) after this PhD is done? I deflate, and compression socks don’t help! The same happens sometimes if I stand up too long, but different (incoordination, forgiveness, heart fluttering). Intellectually, I go, wow, why am I stuck thinking about this? The answer to that more often than not is: you’ve been sitting at your desk too long (I.e.an hour) and need to get up and get the blood pumping again But I do have periods (literally, in every cycle) where I feel like something else is controlling my thoughts. I enjoy a wide range of activities, foods, the company of others and I exercise every day. Despite the low BP, I’m a pretty UP person, mentally. Now home and back at my 2 jobs and full time study alone in my house and thousands of kms from my family, my mind is back to it’s old tricks. I was fairly sure I slept somewhat like that when I was there, but one of those nights was aided by Zopiclone, to try to beat jetlag. I recently came home from an overseas trip and for a few days slept like that. What I do know is: if I get 6+ hours sleep, I feel like a whole new person. Sometimes exercise before bed helps, as well as in the morning, but I don’t have enough info about that. I have a much better sleep schedule now and am strict about when I work until. That said, the issue remains: I keep waking up with stressed out thoughts at 4.30, after getting to bed and sleep at 11.30, or 10.30 to 3.30 etc. Obviously, that is a huge payoff and I think that Trazedone was probably never appropriate for someone with such low BP. Since stopping the drug, my sleep is essentially the same, but my blood pressure (which is naturally around 90/60 in the morning) has recovered somewhat and I don’t feel deflated to the point of collapse come midday or 1pm, anymore. The day that was eventually governing my whole life. Of late, I’m not using a prescribed sleep aid after 1 year of 50mg Trazedone use didn’t actually help break the 3.5-4.5 issue and I was waking with very vivid distressing dreams, and had very low blood pressure throughout I do tend to sleep on my side, but this may just be habit. I’m only 36 years old, but haven’t slept more than 4.5 hours at a time for years.
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