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After an illness I developed issues with staying asleep which has morphed into this inability to fall asleep later in the night. I’ve been getting from 2-5 total hours at night. Right now I’m doing a short sleep window and getting up in the night when I can’t sleep. I am sleepy in the night but for some reason, I can’t seem to fall back to sleep or stay to sleep. Right now, I’m up multiple times in the night. I go back to work soon and fear my inability to function. My worry right now is that this is going to take forever to fix.
It sounds as though you are on the right path, LynnS! Allotting an appropriate amount of time for sleep and observing a consistent final out of bed time in the morning will help your body clock regulate sleep and wakefulness, build sleep drive, and reduce nighttime wakefulness.
In addition, getting out of bed whenever being in bed doesn’t feel good will help to address any conditioned arousal that might be making sleep more difficult. Over time, this technique makes the bed a much stronger trigger for sleep.
Although your concern about daytime function is completely understandable, people with insomnia are experts at getting through the day after a difficult night of sleep — so I suspect this might end up being less of an issue than you think!
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