[AwakeIAm]

Hey,

So here is the quick and dirty.  Following a serious illness that took a year to resolve with my daughter the insomnia began.  I slept very little during this period and was up most night trying to figure out her illness.  Great news is I was able to figure out the problem with my daughter.  The bad news is this was over 10 years ago and I still have sleeping problems.   I can fall asleep but I get up almost every hour and roam around the house sleeping in different places.  My health has taken a toll.  Was diagnosed with sleep apnea (AHI 16) but not severe.  I use a mouthpiece as the CPAP sux!!!!  Also had surgery for obstructions in nasal area.  My T went to 200 and hormones got totally out of whack from the lack of sleep.  Tried sleeping pills……crazy dreams.  Stopped taking them.  I feel like I get NO REM sleep and wake up more tired the when I went to bed.

 

Thanks

Bob

[Martin Reed]

Hello Bob. Welcome to the forum and I am sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep. You know, sleep is often disrupted by stressful events or unusual periods in our life — so it’s little surprise that your sleep went off the rails when your daughter was ill.

Unfortunately, instead of our sleep bouncing back once the initial trigger is no longer an issue, sometimes sleep becomes more challenging over time. Often, this is because we start to worry about sleep, try to control sleep, and implement behaviors and strategies in a bid to improve our sleep (or compensate for lost sleep) that actually makes sleep worse.

Before we know it, we have entered the rabbit hole of ever-worse sleep and ever-increasing worry and frustration about sleep.

I would suggest that you don’t try sleeping in different places around the house. Sleep only in your bed — and, if you are in bed but can’t sleep, get out of bed and try doing something else until you do feel sleepy. Then, repeat the process. This will help you “relearn” to associate your bed with sleep.

Sleeping in random places and at random times of the day isn’t going to help you improve your sleep over the long-term, unfortunately. Have you looked into CBT for insomnia by any chance?

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