Quick tips for interrupted sleep please..quite desperate

Hello
I've been waking up multiple times in middle of night for the past few months now. After I wake up once I'm put into constant light sleep and I wake up constantly. I've started seeing a psychologist and I have been doing mindfulness meditation and progressive muscle relaxation but it takes time to see the effect, I think.
I'll continue doing them but I've got an important exam tomorrow and I'd like to sleep better tonight, because at the moment not getting run over by a car is already a big challenge let alone sitting a maths exam....
Any tips to sleep better would be greatly appreciated.

My neighbor woke me up a couple of hours ago, after keeping me up half the night last night! I think shes running a gambling den. Now i cant sleep either

Hello conscience: I'm afraid I don't have any quick tips... I kind-of doubt there are any. The harder you try to sleep, the harder it gets to sleep... in my experience. I'm often awake late at night. What I do is to get up & do walking meditation. I walk slowly around-&-around the dark & quiet house for an hour or so, focusing light attention on each foot as it touches the floor. Thoughts come & thoughts go. I just let them pass at their own pace. Typically when I go back to bed, I'm able to go back to sleep. And, interestingly, I don't seem to feel particularly more tired for having been up for an hour or two in the middle of the night.

If you have anyone who could wake you up, earplugs are half the battle won sometimes. I also swear by a 4mg tizanidine and 50mg of Hydroxyzine. But you do need someone to wake you up, lol. And Tizanidine is by prescription only. Good luck. Oh, hydroxyzine is also by prescription only as far as I know. That's a powerful combo for deep, relaxing sleep. And not habit forming, except maybe psychologically.

As you can see prob by timestamp... i dont sleep most nites either. I just got a lrg packet from the neuropsych about stuff to help with my sleep issues.... i havent read it yet. ..... Just got all my results and reccomendations on Tues... its lengthy so... not really procrastinating as much as working up to it..yeah.. .. LYK if i find anything that helps. U said this has been going on for u for a couple of months? Any changes,new stressors, or old stressors reappearing tht mb triggering ur sleep disturbances? Also if this is nightly and ongoing have you and ur T discussed a sleep study referal? ... its always best to rule out possible physical issues early on. Hope it works it self out for you soon.

I know a lot of people don't recommend electronics when it comes to sleep issues, but when I wake at night I often turn on a podcast and keep the volume down, which helps lull me to sleep. It's not a deep, restful sleep but it's at least sleep.

Thank you everyone for the replies I hope your Sundays been nice and you had good sleep!

If you have access to a powdered supplement called Natural Calm, I SWEAR by it. It's a magnesium supplement. Puts me out in 30 minutes, and I sleep heavily through the night. If something does wake me (a noise, husband moving in bed, kid crawling in), I go right back to sleep.

If you get it, take the directions seriously. If you try to jump to recommended dose from the outset, you'll have stomach cramps & the runs all the next day.

I had my worst mental break after over 6 months of waking at at 3am. (yes, and the song 3AM had come out / coincidence.

Anyway, your inability to sleep solidly can lead to serious physical and mental (possibly long term) issues.

You must get assistance for this if you cannot discontinue the problem.

Sleep aids/ avoid caffeine/ daily exercise.

This is a serious issue. Treat it as such, don't keep wading thru - feeling the effects, and think it will be okay to ignore.

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I'm sorry that you were (are?) having a lot of difficulties with sleep.
I am still having trouble staying asleep unfortunately, and it's adding to the stress so it's a downward spiral! My psychologist is aware of my sleep issue and she's saying that it's my anxiety and she's probably right but every time I see her with one problem in mind, I seem to discover 10 more problems that it seems never-ending!