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@mlpults hi all fellow sufferers 😬

I go to bed around 10:30 -11:00 most nights and it wakes me about 3 hours later. Between 2:00 and 3:30. If really tired and I go down at 9:30 , then it comes at 12:30-1:00.
I keep a record on the wall calendar with red masking tape for a headache, blue for sumatriptan .
I think it’s getting worse. Average 2 to 3 nights per week with no headaches. The rest I’m up for at least 2 hours with a headache. Sometimes it lasts all night and into the day . And then I take a sumatriptan. I’ve tried taking melatonin before bed, and it seems to make it worse. So I don’t see a cure, I’m not the only one . It could be worse. But duchess926 your post reinforces that…..my cure is 20 -30 minutes of light to medium exercise gets rid of it usually. Good luck all. It’s been 11 years. I’m 71.

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@mlpults one more thing, after exercising the headache is gone but it’s very hard to fall back asleep, thus up for 2 hours.

@mlpults - Hi….so my go to meds have been Fiorcet (the real and the generic) and generally it worked like a charm ….it took away my headache in less than 30 minutes and i went right back to sleep….daytime and evening, no problem…i’ve been a night owl all my life and then tried changing my sleep habits!! Nope…headache showed up like clockwork 2-3 hours after falling asleep!