Waking up through the night

I also wake up around 2 or 3 which I have been putting down to having to drink water not long before going to bed so have to empty the water. Then waking up now around 4, could be myself or traffic going over a bridge.
When this continues for a few days I go to bed earlier. around 21.30

Go to the loo. Listen to Harry reading 'Spare'. Sonorous voice. Back to sleep in minutes.

Wine sends me to sleep,
before my bedtime (that’s why I don’t usually drink it!) It would help if I couldn’t get to sleep though.

I’m shocked if I realise in the morning that I’ve slept the whole night through. It truly hardly ever happens. I’ve been like that the whole of my 77 years.

Have you tried going to bed an hour later than you usually do?

I go to bed at 10, read for a few minutes, then hopefully go to sleep before 11 say.

If I tried to stay up later, I would nod off in my chair. That is fatal to getting off to sleep when I do go to bed. Just a few minutes napping keeps me awake for ages when in bed.

Elssssa

Go to the loo. Listen to Harry reading 'Spare'. Sonorous voice. Back to sleep in minutes.

Or view With Love From Meghan, I have yet to see a whole segment as I always fall asleep.

I am the world's expert on insomnia which got much worse after the menopause. Magnesium did not work for me and my GP said it wouldn't help (perhaps placebo).

If you have periods of insomnia try melatonin (GP's do prescribe it) or you can purchase on the internet.

My GP prescribes me an anti-histamine and I take it with a Kalm. It doesn't cure insomnia but ATM I am getting one decent night's sleep every 3 nights.

I have started taking Jude capsules and they have helped a lot in reducing night time trips to the loo. I can manage to get up to six hours sleep now, I used to have about 4 visits to the loo during the night which made me feel quite tired most of the time. It takes a little while for them to start working until suddenly you realise you are sleeping for longer and it is quite exciting to look at the clock each morning and find that you have slept for five or six hours.

Can you take Jude without checking with Gp in case impact on routine meds

I go through patches when I wake anytime from midnight to 3am and can’t go back to sleep. Unless you have to go to work next day it really doesn’t matter. I don’t worry about it, just catch up with a nap after lunch.

Chamomile tea puts me back to sleep.

A sleep therapist in one of the papers last weekend recommended getting up at the same time every morning, no matter how late you went to bed, or how little you slept. I am trying this, but I am only 2 days in and on each morning I have been wide awake and bushy tailed half an hour before that. perhaps it will work tomorrow.

Currently I keep my Kindle under my pillow, loaded with familiar and much loved books. Rereading them soon sends me drifting back to sleep.

Tries everything but once I wake usually 3 to 4 am thats it. I tried lying in a darkened room for 3 hours but made no difference but often have to stop myself dropping off of an evening. The most sleep I ever get is 4 hours with a rare 5.

I do fall asleep in the afternoon sometimes if I am watching television. If I’m out doing stuff I’m fine.
Last night I slept through!

I have what i call 2 sleeps .
The 1st part is where I wake around 3am, generally awake for a couplenof hours, the 2nd is where I fall back to sleep around 5 to 5.30 and wake about 8ish.
Unless I have to be up and out early this is OK. Obviously it would be great to sleep a straight 8 hours. If I'm really tired I have been known to have a " nanna nap" about 3pm😴😊

I have been taking a half dose....just one capsule not 2... of Magnesium Gglycinate at bedtime and although I wake during the night I have gone back to sleep quite quickly without thinking anxious thoughts.

I also have jangling/tingling body nerves since chemo. And they seem to have calmed down somewhat, Early days but there seems to have been an improvement.

Here I am at 4.20 a.m and woke up with the most mundane annoyance . My gardener is actually charging me too much to mow my itsybitsy front garden - £20. I know he only charges £30 for neighbour’s large front and back garden. It bothers me every year and then when summer’s gone , I forget about it. So what ? And now I can’t get back to sleep.😫
Helterskelter hope your treatment goes well….

I used to reach for my phone to do a bit of doom scrolling but I read about cognitive shuffling and it really works for me. Choose a short word and then using each letter in turn think of as many words as you can. Sounds simple but it seems to work. I usually do it before sleep as well as it helps switch my mind off from other thoughts.

My statins seem to have cased this.
My GP is cutting the dose as it doesn't happen if i don't take them.. 👍
Rosuvastatin

I'm 59 ...this has been me for the last 5 or 6 years .....just get on with it now....if I get 4 hours I'm happy

I sleep through the night maybe a few times a year I'm always amazed when it happens as my normal sleep pattern is waking fit the loo 3 times and waking between 3 and. 4 and if I do get back to sleep waking around 8

Sometimes I sleep through, sometimes I get up to the loo and then go back to sleep and sometimes I wake up and can’t get back to sleep. If I’m still awake after about 30 minutes, I get up and get on with the jigsaw I always have on the go. That means I don’t disturb DH and I usually go back to bed and to sleep eventually. It does seem to be part of aging!

GP has increased dosage of my tablets and I am sleeping right through now. Last night slept from 11.30 to 9.50 this morning! I was weeing so much during the night and sometimes getting cut short on the way there that she prescribed Mirabegron on the lowest dosage but that wasn’t enough so we went up to 50mg.

I haven't slept through the night since 1995 when I was pregnant.
Usually it's just a couple of bathroom trips but about 3 or 4 nights a week I will be awake for 3 or 4 hours.

I have woken up during the night since my teens. I go to the loo and go back to bed. I'm healthy and always have been. I get enough sleep too.