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all you experts, I have a question
susie
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Yes, I know I could go to a doctor, but why do that when I have GB?
Here lately I have been having sleep issues. No matter what time I go to bed or how tired I am, I wake up after only sleeping 3 hours. Last night, out at 11:00 pm, up at 2:00 am.
The night before, out at 10:00 pm, up at 1:00 am. This has been the pattern. I could chalk it up to the hubbie's hot flashes or my arthritis bothering me if it were sporadic and not time specific.
That is the puzzler, why 3 hours?
So, come all you perts, what say you?
Here lately I have been having sleep issues. No matter what time I go to bed or how tired I am, I wake up after only sleeping 3 hours. Last night, out at 11:00 pm, up at 2:00 am.
The night before, out at 10:00 pm, up at 1:00 am. This has been the pattern. I could chalk it up to the hubbie's hot flashes or my arthritis bothering me if it were sporadic and not time specific.
That is the puzzler, why 3 hours?
So, come all you perts, what say you?
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That is the puzzler, why 3 hours?
Turn your alarm off. Don
Ask the experts is two pages over...
once you get past 50- sleeping
3 contiguous hours (for me) is a blessing.
Besides I get more work done twixt 3am and 6am
than I do all day.
or try taking a zantac before bed.
I too have the 3-hour sleep pattern. No drugs or alcohol involved. But, whenever I go to sleep, 3 hours later I awake. All you can do is relax and let yourself go back to sleep. That, or keep a book, next to the bed and read a chapter or two. That also helps me get drowsy again.
I keep magazines handy that way I can finish a few articles and not get involved in reading and just stay awake.
You can find it at most stores in the Vitamin area. Put out by Spring Valley. Even Walmart has it.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
i sleep with a fan, the noise and breeze helps allot, since i quit my naps it helps too, occasionally i'll get a ten minute one in but only if its before 4pm or i'm not sleeping
Lay off the caffeine...
bingo
Holy Crap, not another mis-guided soul. This is not a medical forum. Free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it. Free medical advice may be worth much less.
Warm milk.
Cut the mid day naps out.
Take 2 benadryl and sleep until morning!
True. See a doc and call us in the morning if you have difficulty with more firearm related issues. [:D][:D]
Maybe do some yoga or light weight lifting a few times during the day...
I dig ditches and install pipe for a living and at 50 yo,I still only sleep 5-6 hrs a night but,it is a really deep,sound sleep.
I wake automatically,15 min before the 0500 alarm sounds.Just enough time to brew and drink 2 8oz. cups of coffee,do my binnis and get to diggin....
I honestly believe the older we get we need less and less sleep,even when doing heavy manual labor.
Best wishes and prayers to you, to get your optimum amount of rest per night...
The take two rhetalin in the morning to wake up.
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
Actually, thanks for the ideas. I do snore and hubbie has a c-pap that he has put on my face in the middle of the night to quiet me down. Been checked but O-2 level only dropped to 89% and the magic number was 88%. Will be getting checked again this year.
Stress is my middle name here lately. Hubbie finished up his last radiation therapy treatment this week so now we will be doing the "let's check and see what we find or don't find" routine.
#4 is keeping us busy with all his activities, I've been notified I will be RIF'd unless I find a new job by 22 September which might require a move, but #4 only has one year of school left so we can't all leave the area.
With the postal downsizing frenzy hubbie's post office is being combined into the main office so he will be out of a job as well. If we can hold off the hounds until May 2013 we can go anywhere. Being a retired Army family has kept us from being firmly attached to any place.
Thanks guys.
Here's my advice:
1. Honey is a natural sedative. Take two teaspoons of honey before going to bed. Works like a champ.
2. If you do wake up in mid-morning, don't start thinking about things to do or worry about. That will just complete the wake-up. Talk to God instead.
I sleep for approximately three (3)hours also. Once the pain medication wears off, I become uncomfortable, and wake up. The problem is that the longer you allow it to repeat, the more reinforcement the habit receives, and thus the more difficult it is to break.
I get up at 4:30 am, so I do not want to take another sleeping pill.
I don't know about you, but I have been suffering with horrible dreams for many years, so sometimes I'm happy that I woke up. Different places and different people, but the same thing always happens. After I arrive and speak with them, they suddenly get angry and attempt to kill me.
Same dream, night after night.
One last thought since you mentionned c-pap. I was diagnosed with moderate to severe sleep apnea and struggled with a grim determination to adjust to one of several "cpap/bipap" options. (6 months of hell.)Just couldn't do it.
Ended up trying an oral herbst. Low tech for sure. Should have been the first thing tried to my way of thinking. No adjustment period; now sleeping through the night and waking up rested in the a.m. AND, my wife gets a better nights sleep because I'm not tossing and turning ANd she doesn't have to tune out the constant drone of the pap machine.
Good luck, with that, and everything else on your plate.
Rob