Fellow Night Owls

MarciKS said:
I don't sleep the full night through either. Arthur won't let me. Neither will my bladder and lungs.
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Oh I sleep for hours and hours, only getting up to empty the bladder maybe twice....my secret is taking a prescription sleep aid or I literally cant fall asleep for days then I'm so sickly, cant even function....tried all the OTC remedies and none work.
 

I here you Popsn tluff….At my age I can't sleep....After I retired, I couldn't sleep....I would read a book or watch TV all night....
I have meds...but still can't sleep....The other night I thought I slept....I opened the shutters and It was dark....(I laughted to myself)
So I made a pot of coffee....That wasn't good...It made me stay up till the next day and night...My husband is sleeping now and its'
almost time for dinner....Hey, I'm not going anywhere....It's a ghost town in our area....You only see the people that have to walk the
doggies.… Sometimes I'll go out on the porch.... I have to make dinner now....I washed a load of 2 clothes...I also washed the bed cover.
I'm a nut!!!! Hubby wants to take me out to the stores tomorrow.....UGH!!!!! They are opened around here...
 
I used to be on a so-called normal schedule. Now, for like the last year I am up all night and sleep away all the early part of the day. I am waiting for it to be midnight, then off to the grocery for the new sales of the week. Stocking up on ground beef, cereal and green grapes at bottom of the barrel pricing. Pays to get there before they run out.
 

Night Owl here. I am up late and typically sleep until 9:30 or 10am. I was lucky that I worked from home in Central time before I retired and the corporate headquarters was in the Pacific time zone, so they were 2 hours behind me. I didn't have to answer emails early in the morning, but I could answer them in the evening.
 
dseag2 said:
Night Owl here. I am up late and typically sleep until 9:30 or 10am. I was lucky that I worked from home in Central time before I retired and the corporate headquarters was in the Pacific time zone, so they were 2 hours behind me. I didn't have to answer emails early in the morning, but I could answer them in the evening.
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Now I am up until 4 or 5 and sleep until 12 or 1pm. It drives me crazy, so many things are done best early am. I need to go into the doctor for blood, they want me to come in the morning.

Two of my dogs need dental cleaning and grooming. Those also require early morning drop offs.
At least, I am not bored. I can come on here and read or talk to others.
 
I wonder why there is this difference between people. You would think it more natural to sleep when it's dark and be active during daylight hours. It is certainly more convenient.
 
I have been a night owl most of my life. Ordinarily I hit the sack around 4:00AM and wake up around 11:00AM. I usually take about a three hour nap sometime in the evening. I found that if left to it's own devices my sleep schedule will subtract an hour or two from the beginning and add an hour or two at the end. After a few months it works it's way right around the clock until it reaches the original starting point.
 
oldpop said:
I have been a night owl most of my life. Ordinarily I hit the sack around 4:00AM and wake up around 11:00AM. I usually take about a three hour nap sometime in the evening. I found that if left to it's own devices my sleep schedule will subtract an hour or two from the beginning and add an hour or two at the end. After a few months it works it's way right around the clock until it reaches the original starting point.
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you're not a night owl.. it's just that you're sleeping during the day, which means you;re not tired until 4am...

try not sleeping during the day and see what time you go to bed.

I don't sleep during the day aside from if I'm a little poorly.. I've always been a night owl, don't go to bed until the early hours.. but I don't lie in either, I'm up and about well before 9am most mornings... and when I was working I sometimes couldn't sleep until 2 am and had to be up at 5 or 5.30 am for work, never missed a days' work regardless of how tired I was..
 
oldpop said:
I have been a night owl most of my life. Ordinarily I hit the sack around 4:00AM and wake up around 11:00AM. I usually take about a three hour nap sometime in the evening. I found that if left to it's own devices my sleep schedule will subtract an hour or two from the beginning and add an hour or two at the end. After a few months it works it's way right around the clock until it reaches the original starting point.
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i have always been a night owl. i just can't sleep when most people sleep. i go to bed at 4ish as well.
 
Night Owl flies into room, settles on perch :) Always been the same. Rarely get to sleep before 3am, but always up between 7.30 - 8.00am. If I feel really tired duing the day, I'll have an hour if possible, but no longer as I end up feeling really groggy. I think my insomnia is caused by health-related issues, mostly chronic pain and side-effects of medications - I usually have to be on the point of losing consciousness to fall asleep when I go to bed. Awful cycle.
 
Do any of you Night Owls take any prescribed sleeping medications? I'm a very light sleeper, and I've tried natural remedies like Melatonin. I fall asleep for a couple of hours and wake up jittery. I've tried Ambien and it made me sleepwalk and forget what I did the night before. 😵

My mother was prescribed Trazadone for sleep when she was in hospice. I started with 100mg and was stumbling all over the bedroom. I now take 25mg and sleep through the night. When I travel I take 50mg, just because my sleeping arrangements (fan, white noise, etc.) are different. Last night, because we had no power, it was hot and alarm was beeping, I took 100mg and a Xanax. I slept until 9:20, even when the power came on at 3am.

Yes, I sleep late in the mornings, but I usually get 8-9 hours of sleep per night without waking up. And I'm not drowsy in the morning. I'm ready to go and don't need a nap during the day. Trazadone is considered non-narcotic so I can get refills without seeing my doctor.
 
It wasn't for sleep, but for pain management, but when my GP originally started me on Gabapentin I had awful hallucinations and would wake up jittery, as you describe. She lowered my dose and I've been okay since but still not sure if it was the Gabapentin itself just too high a dose or if it interacted with one of the other meds I'm on.
 

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