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“When do you normally go to bed at night, when do you get out of bed to start your day, and roughly how many hours of sleep do you get on a typical night?”
I sleep on couch, the only way I can get sleep. I start sleep 6:30 to 7:00 pm, awake 9:00-10:00. the past two weeks unable to get back to sleep, but if I do my bio clock says 1:30-2:00 am.
“Do you tend to have more difficulties with falling asleep at the start of the night, or staying asleep through the night (or both)?”
No problems falling asleep this early, cannot even stay awake actually. its after a 3 hour nap that my entire night is chaotic and of course being an extreme early bird at 1:30 to 2:00 is when sleep ends for me anyways, circadian rhythm totally messed up.
I’m awake again tonight, this is 8 nights now, it’s worse than it’s ever been up to date. I have no choice but to cave in to and except I have sleep wake disorder as I can sleep 1 or 2 more times tomorrow and get enough sleep for survival which I have NOT been doing and I’m physically, mentally and emotionally spent, my husband cried tonight over this. I have to sleep any way I can starting tomorrow.
completely cured sounds amazing. I do not have anxiety I do believe I have a physical issue such as menopause, high night cortisol release or something.
I go from a low sleeping heart rate for example 52 and in 2 seconds knocked out sleep abruptly straight to heart rate of 85. It’s like my fight or flight response, hormonally related or something. Maybe even respiratory.
I don’t think I can be cured completely and I already bought the act book, which is very helpful. CBT-i did not work for me. Act allows some brief short naps which I need during the day and also encourage staying in bed which getting out of bed was only telling my body to stay awake. Anyhoo, I’ll go off and try to keep finding help somewhere else.
I’ve been trying to work on this, but failing miserably. Today my average is 3.5 hours, at the time I wrote my first post it was 5.2 hours.
My early onset is earlier now with time change so sleepy at 6-6:30 and usually my time out of bed if I were to get sleep is 1-2 a.m. I would love to push my sleep to aleast sleep till 4.
In the recent past days, the early onset results in a 3 hour nap when I wake at 9-9:30 I’m unable to get back to sleep. I have nights like this 6 out of 7 and it’s severely debilitating and quality of life greatly dismissed.
Please help…I’ve done CBT-i in my state, it was somewhat helpful, the stimulus control, hygiene, no napping (which now is affecting my day to day severely but I still don’t nap and in my case I think it’s training my body to not sleep when NEEDED even after waking). I think ACT is my next option, this at least allows brief naps when I’m falling over dying from sleep deprivation and this means headaches, body and muscle aches, forgetfulness as in dementia like symptoms, mood and of course plummeting energy levels by day break.
I still keep diaries using CBT-i Coach my CBT-i therapist used to keep with my assessments, sleep restriction (which failed, I have an ideal heart rate for sleep, it seemed my body stayed stimulated pushing sleep out, it appeared hrormonslly or something, my core temperature and melatonin release to me just would not adjust no matter how large my sleep drive was built up; I lost all (as in zero sleep) my sleep the first week and barely made it thru the next 3 and ended up getting fired from my job so I dropped CBT-i and gave my body the sleep time it wanted)
Thank you
I’ve gone 48 hours on hill.
My sleep is usually can get a 45 min nap in and awake the rest of day/night. But my normal pattern is very early evening sleep onset for a hard 2.5 to 3 hour nap and awake the rest. This week I’m going on 5 straight days/nights on this amount and I’m dying. My body will not sleep at night. So frustrated and disappointed in my failing body at 51. Ive have maintenance insomnia for 15 months now. ???. What’s worse is my only support here at home isn’t very much support at all. He seems less and less interested as it gets old I’m sure for him.
