Can you still sleep through the night?

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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Yeah, sleeping through to morning with out bathroom break is something I miss. Having to get out of bed at night is something that eventually happens to you, like "senior moments". Currently, I jump in bed at 11PM, and by 1:30AM- got to go. Then about 5AM, again. Well, of course, by 7:30 AM. again.
Can you still sleep through the night?
 

fuzzybuddy said:
Yeah, sleeping through to morning with out bathroom break is something I miss. Having to get out of bed at night is something that eventually happens to you, like "senior moments". Currently, I jump in bed at 11PM, and by 1:30AM- got to go. Then about 5AM, again. Well, of course, by 7:30 AM. again.
Can you still sleep through the night?
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Haven't slept through the night in over 20 years. It's not to use the bathroom?
I wake up every hour all night, I wake up exhausted then off to work.
 

Sure. I do wake up once or twice, but I go back to sleep easily so I consider it sleeping through the night. I rarely toss and turn for more than 5 minutes. Maybe once a month at the most I am up for more than 30 minutes. Normally, my head hits the pillow and I am gone.
 
Nope, up every three hours for the bathroom. Also have trouble getting back to sleep. I miss the old days when I could sleep ten hours straight when I could. Now, I am lucky to get 5 or 6 hours. I also have an upset sleep schedule while up most of the night and sleep in the day.
 
I no longer expect to sleep straight through the night.

I get to bed around 8 pm every night with the intention of turning off the light, putting down the book and getting to sleep by 9 pm. That much almost always works out. But I'll be up to pee within 3 to 4 hours. Often I'll wind up reading some more if I've been sleeping 4 hours and when I do it can be another two hours before I get back to sleep. But I'll be up again to go a couple more times. I usually get 7 to 10 hours sleep (as measured by my CPAP machine) most nights but there are light days.

We should probably talk about what meds we take for sleep too. Most nights I just take two 50 mg Trazadone (an old antidepressant now only used for sleep) and two 250 mg Magnesium. The first time I get up to go I take a 3rd Trazadone (3 is my max dose) when I get back into bed.

When I have a thin night of sleep I just do the same and usually being tired will help me reset. If not I reach for a 5 mg Zolpidem the next night and ditch the Trazadone except after the first time I get up to go when I do take one.
 
foreveralone said:
Haven't slept through the night in over 20 years. It's not to use the bathroom?
I wake up every hour all night, I wake up exhausted then off to work.
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That sounds rough. Exhaustion the next day is a real hassle. I have nerve damage and can manage about 2 hours each time through the night. ( with pain meds - Gabapentin 600mgs at night ). 10pm to 4am. Then a couple hours in the afternoon. Each time I get up I have intense nerve pain for a couple hours until the pain gets to a "forgetful" level. I have been doing this now for a couple years ever since the neuropathy started. It will be 2 years in March. When my sleep is messed up it is hard to function the next day. I struggle to stay halfway objective...it is hard.
 
Very, very rare to sleep through the night. Sometimes if I'm really tired, I might sleep a long stretch.

With the carpel tunnel I was waking up every 1-2 hours with pain and burning in my hand. That was relieved after the surgery. Then my left hand started acting up. I had an injection early December which also gave me relief. I'm getting some numbness back but not pain and burning waking me up.

But if I wake up during the night, I go to the bathroom.
 
I don't usually worry about it. I'd like to be on a regular schedule but I've been lucky lately and haven't reverted to a rotating pattern of being up basically all night and then sleeping during the day.

I usually don't wake up and get up in the night and then later go back to bed. If I'm up, I'm up, then fill in with a nap later.

I only get concerned if I can't sleep at all and can feel incredibly tired but just not get to sleep. That's something I haven't had for months though and I don't miss it.

Laugh if you must, but if I can't sleep right away I watch an ASMR video, usually 20 to 30 minute ones and often the "spiritual" ones about "cord cutting" and "psychic healing." I don't subscribe to that but I can suspend disbelief and be calmed, often falling asleep and letting the TV turn itself off after the video ends.

Example (click Watch on YouTube):


There are many others doing these, of all ages including ours. There are others I find restful that include "eye exams" and other scenarios.
 
I thought I was the only one who is a restless sleeper. Usually go to bed at 11.30 pm but with my restless mind it's usually 2 am before I nod off. I'm only a light sleeper and the smallest sound I'm awake. There are also a number of crickets outside my bedroom window which seem to be in choir practise for many hours. I've tried blocking my ears but to no avail. Wake up about 5.30 am.
 
Take the ribbon from your hair
Shake it loose and let it fall
Layin' soft upon my skin
Like the shadows on the wall

Come and lay down by my side
'Til the early morning light
All I'm takin' is your time
Help me make it through the night

I don't care who's right or wrong
I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
Lord, tonight, I need a friend

Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night.



Understand the metaphor and you
will know why I can still sleep all night
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Yeah, sleeping through to morning with out bathroom break is something I miss. Having to get out of bed at night is something that eventually happens to you, like "senior moments". Currently, I jump in bed at 11PM, and by 1:30AM- got to go. Then about 5AM, again. Well, of course, by 7:30 AM. again.
Can you still sleep through the night?
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What seems to work for me is substantially lowering my liquid intake the two days and then the next. Then I can sleep well uninterrupted. My pee angle seems to have no predictable schedule otherwise. There have been nights when I've been up five times. Then nights when I'm up only once. But, by consciously lowering my liquid intake I can manage a whole night with no pit stop.
 

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