GOES IN A DIRECT RATIO TO HOW WELL MY PAIN IS CONTROLED ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT! AND AGAIN DURING THE NIGHT, IT DICTATES BOTH HOW LONG AND HOW SOUNDLY I MAY SLEEP, AS WELL AS HOW OFTEN AND FOR HOW LONG I AM UP DURING THE NIGHT!

Good grief Carol that is my answer exactly. My wonderful Doctor who I soo trust and am loyal to keeps wanting me to spend the night at the hospital and be tested for sleep apnea. I keep rejecting the idea. The only reason I have troubles with my sleep is due to my fibro pain. That is it. I do not want to spend the night anywhere else but right here in my home and in my own bed. I do admit that when I wake up in the morning it is a troublesome thing to have to make so many sleeping places. I start off in my wonderful bed. Then not wanting to bother my Man I go to family room. Turn on tv and hopefully sleep on the futon we have there. When that does not work I end up on the living room couch. If all that fails then I go to the guest room. Then I can quite easily end up back in my own bed again. Oh ya. Count them Way too many beds to make up each morning. I try to fix up the couch first in case someone drops by for coffee. It is just stupid is what.

More often than not I have to force myself to go to bed because I'm unusally wide awake at night. Some times I can manage to get to sleep with relative ease but there are nights where I'm so wound up I have to take a melatonin pill to help me go to sleep or I will still my mp3 player under my pillow (and set the sleep timer so it'll shut off) and listen to a podcast so that I can kind of drift off to the noise...I think that when I was younger I messed myself up by going to bed with the tv on so now that I don't have the tv in my bedroom anymore I sometimes need something similar to help me relax and go to sleep so that often works.