Why no sleepy at night???

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  • gdr1976
    gdr1976 Posts: 460 Member
    I work the overnight. Never had trouble sleeping during the day, but the last 6 months if I get 4 hours during the day it's a miracle.
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    Doing it right now :(
  • kepirus
    kepirus Posts: 79
    Doing it right now :(

    Ditto . . . my husband just got me a Fitbit last week - it's claiming I fall asleep within 0-10 minutes, but that's just b/c I lay still TRYING to fall asleep. :-(
    Just can not shut my brain off. I try taking deep, calming breaths, then after 5-10 minutes I notice every muscle in my body is tense and I'm doign lesson plans for shcool in my head (as an example), so then I force myself to stop thinking and take deep, claming breaths, and 5-10 minutes later I notice every muscle is tense again . . . and so it goes for up to an hour - sometimes less, sometimes more. (FTR, schools' out for the summer, yet still tonight I found myself planning the first semester in my head as I tried to fall asleep.)
  • Kell_Smurthwaite
    Kell_Smurthwaite Posts: 384 Member
    I'm a total insomniac. The other night I was up all night looking after my poorly little boy - got less than 3 hours of broken shuteye. Al day yesterday I was absolutely exhausted and fighting sleep. I work evenings, so that was especially hard staying awake. I get home just after 10pm and have a relaxing bath. Get ready for bed and BAM! I'm wide awake! Didn't get to bed till well after 2am, and it took quite a while to actually fall asleep. It's like that all the time. It used to be that I couldn't sleep before midnight, but lately it's been creeping out later and later and now I have difficulty sleeping before 2am, no matter how exhausted I am. It' not like I have a long lie-in in the morning either - my little lad usually gets up some time between 7am and 7.30am - sometimes a little earlier, but very rarely any later than that.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    Thanks for the melatonin suggestion. Took some last night and had an incredible sound sleep last night. I'll see how that affects my day today.

    For those that take melatonin, do you take it every night, or just for a few days to set your sleep cycle. I'm worried about becoming dependent on something.

    Thanks.

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