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Please help with sleep problems
Sleep Health | Last Active: Oct 24, 2022 | Replies (160)Comment receiving replies
@lacy2 Now I know why I wouldn't want to live in Canada! The cold in NH is about as cold as I can tolerate.
I agree about sleep, we are all different. I used to find that I regularly needed seven and a half hours a night. I am sleeping more these days and I am sure part of that is an escape mechanism, I am so tired of isolating. At least I can exercise and cook. I don't watch much TV, I generally watch an hour a night as something to do with my husband because he watches TV a lot, news and sports, and I am on the computer, exercising, and cooking.
I wake about every hour and a half for bathroom calls. Often I get back to sleep quickly but sometimes it's impossible. If it's morning I end up getting up and needing a nap later.
Six hours of sleep may be enough at night time but I think on top of that many seniors need a nap during the day. Just think of pictures you have seen, they often show seniors nodding off in an easy chair. So, in other words, six hours at night is sufficient if supplemented by a nap during the day.
JK
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JK, Sorry just getting to all my emails from last week! It went from -2 last week up in Northern New Mexico to 65 right now in ABQ, 2:43 PM Tuesday!
Had a Lyme/Fibromyalgia Episode starting Sunday! Have had very little sleep since then. Had to drive 200 miles home yesterday, really hard! Tried to go to sleep at 9PM. Went to sleep for an hour and had a horrible dream. Then didn't get to sleep until 2AM.
I'm used to 8 hours and an hour nap in the PM. It's horrible!
Sundance(RB)
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Sleep, or no sleep, cant get to sleep cant stay asleep, stress, pain, noise, wake up too early, bad dreams, nightmares, washroom needs... I don't think I know of anyone who consistently has good night's sleep. So many reasons and a lot of medications cause insomnia, or help with sleep. Those of us with illness, depression, anxiety, numerous meds.. it is so hard to figure it all out.
Also our winter furnace is under my bedroom and there is no escape from the gas-heated motor noise about 4 times a night...I dont want to wear ear plugs as I listen to tapes.. also want to hear if smoke detector goes off!.... also I had insomnia for many months during the past years while dealing with depression.
But one thing came to mind this evening and it was many years ago, in the days when I slept well with the odd night that I didnt. I had returned home from out of town hospital after radiation to pelvis for cancer and had been put on Hormone meds as female organs had been radiated/zapped. After a few months I returned to work and slept reasonably well for a few years! Then came the news that Hormone meds increased chances of breast cancer and I decided to stop those meds. Well, for the next five months or so (off the pills) I woke up every single night and the odd thing was it was around 4am, got back to sleep till up for work. Then I decided to go back on meds and believe it or not, the very first night I went back on those meds I slept through the night and for the next few years I was on them I mostly slept through the night - when I didn't it was waking at various times.
So I just thought I would throw this out there, although may have been discussed before: perhaps check the information sheets that we get with our meds and see if they cause your insomnia.... just an idea. J.S. p.s. I had to go back on Clonazepam and now gets periods of sleep for several hours at a time, in combination with relaxation tapes from utube, but it's better than the sleepness nights I had while off that med and one night I did not sleep at all.