Sleep Question
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For those with CPAP, what was the final kick to get you to the doc to get checked out? I gained weight a few years ago and didn't snore prior. My energy is lower, but I also don't exercise like I used to. Snoring is my chief complaint (well, for my wife)...
Im a terrible sleeper in new environments. First night at a hotel and I’m lucky to get 3 hours of sleep. Now I pop a 10 mg indica gummy about an hour before bedtime and I sleep like a brick. I am a little groggy in the morning, but coffee fixes that. Beats the hell out of being exhausted the entire next day.
For me - it was always being tired, to the point of dozing off when just sitting watching TV with my kiddo or even watching the game, and hearing from people that I would stop breathing when I dozed off.
I will double this. I was diagnosed in 2012. I never felt like I was getting a good nights sleep even though I was training for an Ironman Triathlon. I was having +10 episodes every hour and never got into a deep REM sleep. Took a while to get used to the CPAP, but sleep GREAT!!! If I feel restless I will take some Melatonin about an hour prior to bedtime.
I did an At Home one - basically had to wear a device on my wrist that had a thing that went on a finger, and a monitor on the chest. Wear it for one night, take it back to the Dr the next AM, they analyze it and you go from there. Super easy.
If kids aren't involved and age isn't, then most often no. Something is off with your REM/circadian rhythm. Usually you can implement a few good practices to help. They say there are two different versions, I'd have to find the study, bc I'm basing this off of memory. But those who struggle to fall asleep, or those who wake up later on and struggle to stay asleep.
Good practices: try to not do blue light before bed or tv if can manage. set phone to night time setting. read instead. I take a ZMA about 45 min to an hour before bed. This usually helps me fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. Problem is sometimes it can make you go to the bathroom or make you dehydrated too. I don't take the recommended dose of 3 capsules a night. I do 1, and also take this Vit D3/K2/Mag supplement too. If I've struggled or need, I sometimes take unisom gummies (natural stuff) but try not to get too routine with it. Different magnesium sources have different absorption rates. You'd be amazed how different you'd feel as magnesium is responsible for a lot of biological processes in the body and helps improve sleep and so much more. Adults usually do not get enough mag from food alone, so supplementing it helps. The added zinc would help with your immune system too.
So something is messing with your normalcy. If it's stress, too much liquid, blue light, etc, it wouldn't hurt to switch things up. I have not read any others responses on here, so I'm sure there are good ones too. My sleep usually sucks because I have a night owl 2 year old that we co-sleep with because he won't go to his own bed. So we switch off with him and don't really get consistent sleep. When I sleep in the other room I hardly ever wake up in the middle of the night.
Also, a form fitting pillow helped me out a lot. You may be a side sleeper or back sleeper, but sometimes that can have an impact too. Maybe give Matt Walker a follow as he talks about sleep a lot.
Those are my suggestions, hopefully something helps and you get some consistency with your sleep!
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When I'm in the same bed with my wife, I usually get up 1-2 times a night to go to the bathroom and it'll take me 5-60 minutes to fall asleep each time. When one of us sleeps in the guest room due to one of us is sick or snoring, I sleep mostly through the night and wake up 0-30 minutes before the alarm goes off.
Edit: As for being a parent, my kids are in that sweet spot of upper elementary school where they'll go to bed hours before us and if they'll wake up early, they're quiet and independent enough to play games or watch TV on their own (as long as they're not fighting.)
Edit: As for being a parent, my kids are in that sweet spot of upper elementary school where they'll go to bed hours before us and if they'll wake up early, they're quiet and independent enough to play games or watch TV on their own (as long as they're not fighting.)
You're developing a bad habit with the Benadryl. I'd add a ZMA to your routine. Magnesium would be beneficial.
Age---I didn't sleep well for 30-40 years. Thought waking up at three, four or five o'clock was normal for me. I would wake up and stay up. But I couldn't take it anymore, I was shot at 4 in the afternoon. Blamed it on anxiety. Between 9 and 10 most nights to bed and sleep to between 5 and 6 am now.
10 minutes of watching some old tv show I've seen before puts me out like a tranquilizer until morning alarm. Original Star Trek is a favorite. Usually just barely awake enough to turn power off. I laugh when I read all these "don't watch TV before bed" because to me it's the way I put myself to sleep.
Sympathize with people who have babies/toddlers. For about 18 months the 3 shelter dogs we adopted were constantly waking us up but now almost 6 months where they are fine and hardly ever have to go out at night.
I camp/hike a lot and when I sleep outside I do wake up every 2 hours but I think it's more about the mattress/ground than anything with my health. Takes me about 10-15 to get back to sleep, do that cycle about 4 times.
Sympathize with people who have babies/toddlers. For about 18 months the 3 shelter dogs we adopted were constantly waking us up but now almost 6 months where they are fine and hardly ever have to go out at night.
I camp/hike a lot and when I sleep outside I do wake up every 2 hours but I think it's more about the mattress/ground than anything with my health. Takes me about 10-15 to get back to sleep, do that cycle about 4 times.
Every night. 1 pill is 250 mg. It also dramatically improves my stress and anxiety as well. I buy the pills at Walmart
I wondered about that, but just had a physical, and the doc had no concerns about it.
I gave birth five times. All five had melons for head size, all over 95th percentile. If I don’t get up to pee at least once a night, I am probably dead.
Husband says he is sensitive to any kind of light when trying to sleep so the place is pretty pitch black as I stumble to the bathroom.
Husband says he is sensitive to any kind of light when trying to sleep so the place is pretty pitch black as I stumble to the bathroom.
Some would argue that your sleep pattern is the way humans were meant to be.
Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Do It Again
Around a third of the population have trouble sleeping, including difficulties maintaining sleep throughout the night.www.sciencealert.com
It helped me sleep better after reading the 2006 blog post linked below, which links to a NY Times article -- by someone who wrote a book on the topic (At Day's Close: Night in Times Past).
Like you, I often wake up in the middle of the night, typically for more than 10 minutes.
In the olden days, not only would limited indoor lighting have mattered, but also limited outdoor lighting -- like in deciding whether you went out after dark. It's almost the time of year when it's easy for me to go to sleep as soon it gets dark, but the issue was that I wouldn't sleep through the night. I considered it a sleep disorder, not good.
After reading the article below, I might read -- maybe even getting up to do something else during that time -- use it productively, and then go back to sleep. No big deal.
Althouse: That's not insomnia, that's the natural sleep pattern breaking through!
I love to run across a surprising fact that I hadn't known before : Until the modern age, most households had two distinct intervals of slum...
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Also from the NYT article:
Opinion | Dreams Deferred (Published 2006)
Virginia Technology University Prof A Roger Ekirch Op-Ed article notes that increasing number of Americans are using sleeping pills because of insomnia; holds that although Americans are sleeping less, they are sleeping better and more seamlessly than humans ever have in past; suggests that...
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They hook you up at bedtime, or you do at home and basically they see how you sleep. I went to the hospital for mine, I had two beers and a Tylenol PM before I went, wife drove me, read my kindle until about 9:30 they hooked me up and I went to sleep. They woke me about 11:20 and said we are putting the CPAP on you because you have had like 60 events. Events is what they call sleep disturbances. Now I have two to seven events a night. On the mask went and I slept right through for the rest of the sleep study. I had everything hooked up in a week after the study because they adjusted the machine while I was there and using it the first night.