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Originally Posted by ThisWayOut
Does anyone else have issues with insomnia at night, but manage to sleep ok either in the early morning hours (right around sunrise), or once the sun is up?
I used to be terrified to go to bed once it started getting dark, but it would only happen for a few weeks at a time, then I could sleep again for a few weeks. It always cane back. I never understood my fear til maybe 3 years ago...
Now that t and I are working more on the csa stuff, that fear is returning. Even if I can fall asleep when I go to bed, I wake up in about 3 hours and spend the rest of the night awake till close to sunrise. It feels safe to fall asleep then...
It's not so bad if I don't have to do anything that morning, but it really sucks when I have to get up again in an hour to go to work.
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I to sleep better just before day break, during day, or late afternoon when it is just getting dark. I have meds to help me sleep though I don't take them unless I have to sleep to get up early the next day. Not sure if I can attribute any one thing to why this is. May be that I witness my grandfathers violent death in our home as a child, or that my father threatened to kill my mom and I as we slept, shift work, or a man breaking into my dorm room and touching me while I was asleep, the sleep apnea, or that my mind goes to traumatic memories while trying to rest to go to sleep. Just can't shut it down. It's for sure I could never work dayshift anywhere.
Even if I do get to sleep with or without meds I am up about every hour. Eventually it catches up with me and I may sleep 36 hours, just to get up and use the restroom. But even then I'm not rested. This also may have something to do with not going into REM sleep.
Have you had a sleep study?