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I’m sorry to hear you have sleep apnea. That’s annoying!
Yes, I had a sleep test done, and they found nothing. Of course, I only slept for an hour and a half the whole night.The neurologist refused to understand what I was telling him about waking up all night. That he was seeing just a single segment of my very disturbed sleep. Useless.
Hi Martin.
When I wake up in the night I’m suddenly WIDE AWAKE. It’s very jarring. So my goal with the breathing and mindful meditation is to soothe my brain back to a floaty, dreamy state – and to let any thoughts and worries that try to bother me float away instead of crowding in and keeping me up.
It works most of the time.
It’s the frequency of these wakings that are so awful. Once to pee I can handle – I drink a lot of water.
But 3 or 4 times a night is ruinous to daily functioning.It’s interesting that you say hormones don’t cause chronic insomnia. I need to read more. I’ve done CBTi, strictly, several times, and no luck.
Hi @martinreed.
When I wake in the night I do deep breathing – usually in for 6 and out for 7. And mindful meditation. I’m good at conjuring up relaxing scenarios and drifting away into them. It’s how I fall asleep in the first place.
Being 49 and peri-menopausal is a factor I’m sure. So many women develop sleep problems now. But I’ve had them since I was 33. Maybe my hormones were haywire early…
Hi, thanks so much for replying. I’m sorry you go through the same thing I do.
It’s strange, isn’t it, the every 2 hours thing? One sleep cycle is about one and a half hours, so I think maybe we’re waking up properly instead of just skimming near wakefulness like most people do at that stage.
Meditation and prayer sound like excellent ideas. I’m not religious, but I’m trying to do a daily gratitude practice and be outside to appreciate the beauty of nature in a more structured way that’s similar to prayer.
Anything that calms us and brings us out of anxiety has to be good.My dog gets me up at the same time each day – best thing for routine!
