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Except I just ate dinner before the nap.
in that case.......it's time for CHEESECAKE!!!
I hate it when that happens. It's so disorienting! Then you can't go back to sleep because it feels like daytime.
Actually, I can go back to sleep. Ever since I worked graveyard years ago. I rarely have too much trouble sleeping in the daytime now.
Hope you can go back to sleep, wake up, and start fresh!
A while ago when I was having trouble sleeping at night my doc told me to nap whenever I felt like it but to not go to bed. So I would nap on the couch. I got so used to it I could get 8hours in that stupid couch and be wide awake when I got into bed. Arrrrrrg
All sorted now but it was hard to break the habit.
I've never slept well on couches. But, I do agree about napping. If you're tired, lie down immediately. Fully clothed? Don't worry about it. Haven't brushed your teeth? Don't worry about it. And, if you're so tired you can't make it to bed and it might take you a long, long time to make it all the way to bed, lie down right where you are. Even if it's on the floor!
That's what works for me. Otherwise, I'll stay up for hours, too tired to change and do the other miscellaneous things I want to get done before bed.
So, now I just lie down and take a little nap. It might be 2 hours. It might be 8. But, I appreciate every bit of it!
That's what works for me. Otherwise, I'll stay up for hours, too tired to change and do the other miscellaneous things I want to get done before bed.
So, now I just lie down and take a little nap. It might be 2 hours. It might be 8. But, I appreciate every bit of it!
It's pizza for me. I have one every night for a snack. Just little $1.00 microwave pizza. They aren't very big but I love em.
My sleep pattern at nigh has been 1 hr' asleep, One awake, 1 asle...... (you get the picture) for the last 10 yrs. If I get 4 hrs. sleep I'm doing great.
Absolutely! When I was having such a hard time sleeping, I'd stay up in the afternoon when I was tired, hoping to sleep at night.....never worked. I'd get overtired and be up 2-3 days sometimes. took me a couple years, but I finally learned just go sleep whenever the sleepies hit.
Exactly. When you force yourself to stay awake, you get 'wired' and can't sleep.
When I was younger, I never got tired. I didn't believe people when they said they were tired. I only slept once every few days (when I crashed). I hated to sleep. I thought it was a boring waste of time.
Oh, how times have changed! Once I had my first child, I found out what it was to be tired.
Stud, have you asked your doctor about your sleep patterns? When I was at my worst (never sleeping for more than 30 minutes or an hour at a time, ever), that was about the time that I found out I was diabetic.
They've checked me and suggested all kinds of remedies that I tried and tests but nothing. I've just learned to live with it. It's actually my digestive system that keeps me awake. My sister, mom and others in my family have had problems with their digestive system too but it didn't bother their sleep.
My sister and father ended up passing away from colon cancer. I've been tested and looked at that too but nothing.
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Wow J5, sorry to hear that. If it's heartburn, have you tried raising the head of your bed? If it's other stuff, well, not sure what to say. Some do swear by drinking a TBS of apple cider vinegar with the mother in it, in a glass of water.
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I used to have BAAAD acid reflux a year or so ago. It was so bad that when I was asleep, stomach acid would shoot up into my mouth. Real scary! I was afraid I was going to asperate it and drown in my sleep! I found it was due to my love of beer. (Sad face)
I do agree that raising the head of the bed helps tremendously! I just put a square of 2x4 under both feet at the head board and it solved quite a lot of my bed time acid reflux problems! That along with some Prilosec or Pepcid AC and it all but disappeared.
I love my small batch craft beer to much to give that up!
Here's a weird one for you. I have suffered from allergies all my life and when I took up vaping things improved substantially but every so often I have a full blown allergy attack and it happened again Friday. We think I am allergic to Chinese vape mail packing tape. Everywhere I touched it ripping open the packages I came up in a red rash. Hubby laughed and said that's it no more packages, I laughed and put on disposable gloves, 
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Yeah I used to have my box spring and mattress on the floor rather than a frame, and slept with bricks under the head of the bed for years. took just a few days to get rid of it, but then I didn't even notice. wish I could do that now. I use OTC ranitidine. Doesn't happen often, but yeah I've had that burning acid belch up into my throat.....heck of a way to wake up......with your throat on fire, and having to cough it up. For awhile it was happening quite a bit, and that had me concerned. But it doesn't happen so much now.
Here's a weird one for you. I have suffeed from allergies all my life and when I took up vaping things improved substantially but every so often I have a full blown allergy attack and it happened again Friday. We think I am allergic to Chinese vape mail packing tape. Everywhere I touched it ripping open the packages I cam up in a red rash. Hubby laughed and said that's it no more packages, I laughed and out on disposable gloves,
Wow, I wouldn't be surprised.......no tellin what they make that stuff with, or get on it.
I'm on prescription medicine for reflux so that hasn't bothered me in yrs. I can feel the food go through my system from start to finish and can tell you where it's at in my system at any time.
Digestive problems also effect my sleep, although not to nearly the same extreme. I'm not particularly aware of my digestion except that, at one particular stage, I become wide awake. No matter how dead tired I am, my eyes are wide open and I absolutely cannot sleep.
I had been tested years before for diabetes because I had all the symptoms. There's no question I was, at least, pre-diabetic. If I had been to the doctor that later diagnosed me as diabetic, something would have been done about it back then. To some doctors, it's simple and absolute. Test says you have it, or test says you don't. However, some doctors are more aware that it's not that simple.
If necessary, you might try changing doctors. I assume you have been to a specialist? A gastroenterologist? Someone more aware of the subtleties of the digestive system instead of just the test results?
Good luck. Here's hoping you find the solution and that your life transforms to a more restful, full, enjoyable life.
That IS scary. I'm glad it's under control.
I love it! I hope it turns out that disposable gloves solves all your allergy problems.Here's a weird one for you. I have suffeed from allergies all my life and when I took up vaping things improved substantially but every so often I have a full blown allergy attack and it happened again Friday. We think I am allergic to Chinese vape mail packing tape. Everywhere I touched it ripping open the packages I came up in a red rash. Hubby laughed and said that's it no more packages, I laughed and put on disposable gloves,
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