How many hours of sleep do you get a night? ?

About 7 hours or more but only since I've gone gluten free (before that chronic insomnia). I don't usually get up for the loo but do occasionally. What I've noticed about getting older is that I wake much earlier - about 6am. Doesn't mean I get up then though, unless workmen are coming. Husband brings me a mug of tea at 7am and I either get up then or read/check my phone for half an hour.

After retirement was helping with granddaughters for two years. I was up at five thirty and there for eight hours it drained me. I go to bed early hours of the morning now and get about five hours sleep my alarm clock is my arthritic knee.

I aim for 7/8 hours but this can vary. Sometimes I can be wide awake after about 5 hours or less but I find after a few days I will settle back in need of a longer sleep.

About 7-8 hours, normally get up for the loo once, straight back to sleep.

Usually about six, if I’m very lucky seven.

Always slept like a log before DH died last year . Now I take ages to get to sleep , I go to bed around eleven but often get up a couple of hours after as I can’t sleep . I have some cereal and camomile tea, read and then will drop off around 2.30 usually awake by 7-7.30 so not too bad , but would love to just “hit the pillow “ as before . Hoping it’s also the lockdown affecting me and things will improve .

When I first retired, I’d sleep soundly for 7 hours. Over the past year or so, I’m asleep for 8, but this includes several wakeful periods. I’ll be watching the sleep threads closely this week to see if I can get some tips on how to get more deep sleep.

N.B. I rarely have to get up in the night---bathroom.

A good 7 hours more often than not. I sleep well.

I was highly suspicious when people used to say "As you get older, you need less sleep".

Rubbish (in my opinion), still NEED it but can't get it! Pandemic notwithstanding, my sleep routine is all over the place. If I get up early my body will not stay awake in the late afternoon so I nap for at least 2 hours (sometimes more). This means I don't sleep until very early hours of the morning so can't get up early again? Vicious circle worsened by the ever increasing symptoms. I put up with with at least one new condition a year.

For the past 5 years seems I've woken up with at least one addition! Pernicious Anaemia (B12 deficiency), Borderline Diabetes, Higher Blood pressure, worsening Asthma, Auto Immune problems and self inflicted 'pig' syndrome that has me two and a half stone heavier since lockdown (I was no lightweight before).

Getting older is not what I anticipated for sure but...it's better than the alternative!

According to my Apple Watch I average 7 1/2 hours a night. During those hours I do however wake up 2 or 3 times. I usually get back to sleep fairly quickly, but not always!!
I never nap during the day.

Between 3 & 4 hours and that’s not in one go , it’s very interrupted ?. I can drop off but wake up within the hour then toss and turn . You name it I’ve tried it over the years ...including the real sleeping tablets zopiclone which did not work even on 7.5mg dose. I’m beyond help, general anaesthetic takes a while to knock me out too , I feel the burning travel all the way up my arm into my neck. I dream lots too when I do drop off .

I have had a full nights sleep for years. I sleep for a couple of hours wake up fight with the pillow to try to relieve the neck pain and then if I'm lucky get two more hours so a total of 4-5 hours a night but never uninterrupted.

DH did the Sleep Laboratory thing on the NHS- didn't work.

Around 7/8 hours most nights, not always sound asleep though. DH has been sleeping badly for a number years getting only 4/5 hours broken sleep practically every night ☹️

I might have a couple of good nights with 7 hours or so and then a run of 3 or 4 when I can’t get to sleep till about 3 so about 4 hours then.

Usually in bed by 10pm, read for half an hour or so then drop off to sleep quite quickly as a rule. Up for the loo somewhere between 2/3am then back to sleep.
Get up around 6.

I've slept much better since having my own room!

About 4 hours because I have been sleeping on the sofa since January , so i also sleep for a while in the afternoon.

Work being carried out in bedroom today and wheelchair has arrived so hopefully I will be able to sleep in my bed again later this week.

On a good night around 5/6 on a bad night 3/4.
Dh gets 3/4 since lockdown.

I am usually in bed by 11pm but it takes me ages to relax and drop off and turn my buzzing head off, so usually by 12 midnight, then naturally wake up between 9-10am BUT I am up and down to the loo all night, toss and turn, very restless, plus also have sleep apnoea so often wake up gasping for breath. So not as refreshing as it sounds!

Around 8 and a half hours sleep for the last few months, no getting up in the night either, once my head hits the pillow I’m gone,

Luckily I get about seven and a half to eight hours most nights, helped by Amitriptyline.

I tend to get about 5 - 6 hours straight sleep unless interrupted by DH going to the bathroom. If I do wake up I can generally get back off to sleep without too much trouble.

I’m a light sleeper, I sleep for around 7 hours in total but it’s broken up.

3-4, normally shut down about 1:30-2:00am, up at 5:30 for work

I wake up quite often and take ages to get back to sleep. The cat is now locked in the utility ( cosy bed and radiator ! ) as I always got a fright if he decided to jump on the bed in the night. I think from reading these posts that very few of us sleep as well as we did when younger. Annoying but true. I have tried all sorts of "calming" drinks etc and even resorted to half ( or less ) of an OTC sleeping tablet . The tablet helps a lot but I feel terrible the next day ( unpleasantly tired and bad tempered - a bit like afer a travel sickness tablet which isn't surprising as both are antihistamines )