It sounds really weird, but my whole life I have never been able to sleep through the night. I can't take sleep aids because they give me such a bad "hangover" the next day or they work TOO well (25mg diphenhydramine puts me out at LEAST 16 hours). I've tried warm showers before bed (I can't take baths), having a little snack etc etc.
Nothing fucking works. It's gotten worse since I switched to day shift.
Typical sleep pattern:
Go to bed 10:30 - 11pm: Fall asleep fairly quickly- usually in 15 mins.
1:30-ish : Wake up suddenly and feel fully awake. Get up, use bathroom, drink glass of water. I never turn any lights on.
Usually toss and turn and fuss for around an hour, so say 2:30 - 3am I fall back asleep.
6am: WIDE FUCKING AWAKE AGAIN. Hyper sensitive to noise. Everything seems so loud. I try wrapping a shirt around my face to make it super dark. This inevitably gets too hot so I take it off. I stick my head under the pillow to drown out the outside city noise. Apparently people here wake up mad early and the noise starts around 5:30am- trucks, cars, honking etc (obviously I live downtown).
I usually fuss around until 7am when I can fall back asleep.
9am: WAKE UP FOR WORK. So tired. Takes my husband around thirty minutes to pry me out of bed. I bitch and moan the whole time. I feel like I haven't slept at all.
I drink large iced coffee at work, which makes me sky high wired until around 4pm when I crash and get really, really wretchedly bitchy and bored.
7pm I am off, go meet up with my husband at his club. We usually get home around 9pm.
How can I make this stop? Please no aromatherapy or whatever- I've already tried that. I'm at my wits' end- I'm off today but I woke up today at 6am and haven't been able to get back to sleep. It is now 10:00am. I feel like my day is totally fucked off and ruined.
Suggestions? I need around 10 hours of sleep, so I'm trying to sleep from 10:30 - 11pm until 8am.



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Definitely under 76F. I like my house pretty cool and often sleep with my windows open for the breeze.
I don't sweat
the other 5% .......................



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