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Welcome to the forum — and I am glad to hear that your sleep has improved. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the stats given to you by your Fitbit. Unless the device is measuring brainwaves, it can’t accurately determine your individual sleep stages. What it can do, however, is make you worry more about your sleep if the data it displays makes you concerned.
I’ve not heard of body shakes as a result of insomnia. You could simply be noticing normal movement because you are paying a lot of attention to this. In any case, I think this is probably something you will want to discuss with your doctor.
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I’m sorry to hear about your struggles with falling back to sleep. When you wake during the night, what do you think makes it difficult for you to fall back to sleep?
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Welcome to the forum. Why do you think you find it hard to fall asleep and stay asleep?
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Are you trying to stick to a regular (and appropriate sleep schedule)? This can help consolidate sleep and reduce the amount of time you spend awake during the night.
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I love that you are sharing your ongoing experience with the techniques you are implementing, Deb! Every time a bad night happens (which for you, is becoming rarer and rarer over time), you do feel down — and this is normal and understandable. However, you commit to the techniques and trust them, and you are rewarded with renewed, ongoing improvement. Congratulations on the good sleep last night. To be honest, I was confident that this was exactly what was going to happen!
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Hello NeuroShock and thank you for your contributions to the forum. Do you only ever experience these ‘shocks’ after you’ve been asleep for a few hours? Do you ever experience a dry mouth/throat in the morning?
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I am so sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep — but let me first reassure you that you are capable of sleep and that it is very unlikely that the difficulties you are experiencing with sleep are going to kill you.
You mentioned that you go to bed at the same time every night — are you sleepy when you go to bed? Can you give us a few more details about your sleep routine? For example, what time do you typically go to bed, when do you get out of bed in the morning, and roughly how many hours of sleep do you usually get?
Do you tend to find it more difficult to initially fall asleep, or do you tend to find it hard to fall back to sleep after waking during the night?
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I’m sorry to hear that your racing, anxious mind is making sleep difficult, johnjohn. This is actually quite common, as mentioned by delv-x. Do you have any idea what triggered your struggles with sleep? How long have you been finding sleep difficult?
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Welcome to the forum, and I am sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep. Your experience is very common and suggests that you have associated the bed with anxiety and wakefulness rather than relaxation and sleep. This can happen when we repeatedly experience poor sleep when in bed, and is completely understandable.
The solution is to change this learned association and to — once again — make the bed a strong trigger for sleep by associating it with sleep, and nothing else.
This is typically achieved in two ways. First, it’s usually a good idea to reduce the amount of time you spend in bed and allot for sleep to more closely match your average nightly sleep duration. Secondly, when you are in bed and can’t sleep, it’s usually best to get out of bed until you feel sleepy again, then get back into bed to repeat the process.
Eventually, sleep pressure will build and reach a point that forces sleep. When you follow these techniques, you will be in bed when you sleep and out of bed when you are awake. Over time, this will help you relearn to associate the bed with sleep, it will reduce anxiety, and it will make the bed a much stronger trigger for sleep.
I hope this helps — and good luck!
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Welcome to the forum Andybear! Sorry to hear about these sleep twitches — it’s little wonder that they have been preventing you from sleeping properly. Any idea what triggered them?
You may find this discussion on hypnic jerks helpful:
https://insomniacoach.com/forums/topic/jerking-self-awake-when-falling-asleep/
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It can actually be reassuring to realize it’s the anxiety that perpetuates our sleep problems, rather than the loss of any ability to sleep. The key here is to try not to engage with these anxious thoughts — don’t try to fight them, block them, or even ignore them.
Instead, recognize them for what they are — thoughts. Thoughts cannot hurt us. Thoughts come and go. When an anxious thought enters your head, recognize the thought and eventually, it will pass.
One thing I will add, sleepytime, is that it’s usually best to reserve the bed for sleep and nothing else. This way, you work on creating and strengthening an association between the bed and sleep. If you want to rest, try doing so elsewhere — keep your bed exclusively for sleep.
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It sounds as though your boyfriend’s sleep schedule is delayed — in other words, he tends to go to bed very late and get out of bed very late in the day. Although this schedule is unusual, does he get a still get a good amount of sleep? If so, he may be experiencing delayed sleep phase syndrome. This can often be corrected with behavioral changes — was delayed sleep phase syndrome mentioned by his doctor by any chance?
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Sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep. I have a few questions for you:
- Do you feel sleepy at around 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM?
- When you wake during the night, what do you think is stopping you from falling back to sleep?
- What do you do when you are in bed and can’t fall back to sleep?
- When do you get out of bed?
- Roughly how many hours of sleep would you say you get on a typical night?
If you can share a bit more information, we will be able to offer some suggestions.
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Here’s a direct link to the video that has been mentioned:
https://insomniacoach.com/forums/topic/martin-video/
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Welcome to the forum, Eclair and I am sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep. When you get into bed and suddenly feel wide awake and alert, what do you do next? Do you stay in bed, hoping for sleep or trying to sleep, or do you get out of bed until you feel sleepy again and repeat the process?
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