Thanks, Sideblinded! Yes, I used to try to get out in the early AM for 30 min or so. I thought it helped, but my sleep doc said it wasn't enough light to really get me on track - I'd have to buy the light box. They don't sell it locally. I guess I could sit in front of it while I do my AM nebulizer.
As soon as my foot heals, I'm getting another dog, to make me go outside again - an old one, like me, this time. Young dogs wear me out.

I've also taken melatonin for yrs - 10 mg now. I take 1.5 mg Ativan to relax me, also. I wear an eye mask and my sleep apnea mask.

But the best tool I have found to help me sleep at ANY hour is a CD that has Delta (sleeping)brain waves under a music track. You can play it louder than other sleep tracks, and your brain rhythm quickly aligns with the brain waves it hears, so you're asleep before you know it. It's called Delta Sleep System 2.0, by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. Lately, as I try to adjust to night sleep, I lie awake awhile. But if I turn it a little louder and concentrate on slow breathing throughout my body (head to toes), it works!

It's just getting to bed that's the problem. I've had a lot of pain lately, and I stay up trying to get rid of the pain, before getting ready for bed. Which is what I should go do right now.

I'm a totally self-absorbed whiner, BUT...

I just LOVE positive people!!