Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
I set up an appointment with a sleep center but the earliest appointment they had available was into February. I'm honestly not sure what to expect. Not sure if they're going to do a sleep study on me or if they will just try resolving my sleep issues.
So I just wondered what I should do in those 3 weeks? Like you've all heard, nothing seems to be working. I have a feeling I would sleep great if I stayed up really late but don't know. Here I am at 4 A.M having just woken up after an extremely light sleep. I've been following a schedule for several weeks now and my body simply doesn't seem willing to compromise. Lots of nights for whatever reason(maybe negative association with sleep/fear of sleep?), I'll feel tense at bedtime although I wasn't during the day and frankly don't have a very hard semester this time. Honestly I think my neck got pretty screwed up from last semester from storing stress and having to use bad posture for using my computer often, it's part of the problem for some nights bad sleep although I have no money to see a chiropractor.
I'm think about trying sleep restriction because I have a hypothesis that if I go to bed from 2 a.m (instead of midnight like currently), I'll sleep normally. I don't really know how sleep restriction works but I'm guessing I'd sleep from 2 till 8 for a while and eventually try going to go to bed each night a little earlier. Once i'm close to reaching falling asleep at midnight, I'm honestly worried i'll need to get up at 7 instead because I'll probably have to feel dead tired to fall asleep that early initially. Or would it be better to just start off sleeping from 2 a.m till 7 to begin with, and keep going to bed earlier and eventually add the hour back? Like mentioned before, I don't really know how sleep restriction fully works. Can someone give me a week by week example of how I'd do sleep restriction for sleeping if my ultimate goal was to sleep from midnight to 8 a.m and or give me additional details about it? Or does anyone have other suggestions?
So I just wondered what I should do in those 3 weeks? Like you've all heard, nothing seems to be working. I have a feeling I would sleep great if I stayed up really late but don't know. Here I am at 4 A.M having just woken up after an extremely light sleep. I've been following a schedule for several weeks now and my body simply doesn't seem willing to compromise. Lots of nights for whatever reason(maybe negative association with sleep/fear of sleep?), I'll feel tense at bedtime although I wasn't during the day and frankly don't have a very hard semester this time. Honestly I think my neck got pretty screwed up from last semester from storing stress and having to use bad posture for using my computer often, it's part of the problem for some nights bad sleep although I have no money to see a chiropractor.
I'm think about trying sleep restriction because I have a hypothesis that if I go to bed from 2 a.m (instead of midnight like currently), I'll sleep normally. I don't really know how sleep restriction works but I'm guessing I'd sleep from 2 till 8 for a while and eventually try going to go to bed each night a little earlier. Once i'm close to reaching falling asleep at midnight, I'm honestly worried i'll need to get up at 7 instead because I'll probably have to feel dead tired to fall asleep that early initially. Or would it be better to just start off sleeping from 2 a.m till 7 to begin with, and keep going to bed earlier and eventually add the hour back? Like mentioned before, I don't really know how sleep restriction fully works. Can someone give me a week by week example of how I'd do sleep restriction for sleeping if my ultimate goal was to sleep from midnight to 8 a.m and or give me additional details about it? Or does anyone have other suggestions?
I'm sorry to hear that you've got sleeping problems, but it's good that you're looking for help. Having said that I don't think you should try and change anything for the next 3 weeks. The sleep clinic will try to assess your regular sleep pattern and help you on the basis of that. If you go and change everything now, that might actually make it more difficult for them to do their job. I understand that another 3 weeks seem like a long time to go, but keep at it to get the best results afterwards. Best of luck!