I get up too early!

The Cpap machine is working wonderfully. However, I get up too early. I wish I could sleep until 7:00Am. I am getting up 5:00Am, sometimes even earlier.

Well, you don't need as much sleep now - how many hours are you getting and how early do you go to bed?

Julie wrote:Well, you don't need as much sleep now - how many hours are you getting and how early do you go to bed?

I get around 6 hours sleep. I really would like between 8 or 9. I need it.

Do you feel rested after 6 hours? If not, can you go back to sleep with CPAP? The machine doesn't set my sleep hours. I get up when I feel sufficiently rested. I might have had trouble sleeping the full amount of time I needed when I started therapy, but I soon adjusted to getting as much sleep as I could or needed with CPAP.

MarylandCPAPer wrote:Do you feel rested after 6 hours? If not, can you go back to sleep with CPAP? The machine doesn't set my sleep hours. I get up when I feel sufficiently rested. I might have had trouble sleeping the full amount of time I needed when I started therapy, but I soon adjusted to getting as much sleep as I could or needed with CPAP.

To expand on this point, one of the best nights I had on cpap was after only 4 hours of sleep. But the quality was excellent and I felt energetic although I would still get tired from not enough sleep. Still, it was better than the periods where I slept longer and the quality stunk.

So the question to ask, is how functional do you feel after 6 hours and if you don't, make sure your therapy is optimized by looking at sleepyhead software and also look into optimal sleep hygiene.

49er

MarylandCPAPer wrote:Do you feel rested after 6 hours? If not, can you go back to sleep with CPAP? The machine doesn't set my sleep hours. I get up when I feel sufficiently rested. I might have had trouble sleeping the full amount of time I needed when I started therapy, but I soon adjusted to getting as much sleep as I could or needed with CPAP.

When I can go back to sleep I feel very fortunate. Usually I can't. And I do feel rested when I get up early. But later in the day I get a bit tired. If I could only get 9 hours sleep I could take on the world!

49er wrote:

MarylandCPAPer wrote:Do you feel rested after 6 hours? If not, can you go back to sleep with CPAP? The machine doesn't set my sleep hours. I get up when I feel sufficiently rested. I might have had trouble sleeping the full amount of time I needed when I started therapy, but I soon adjusted to getting as much sleep as I could or needed with CPAP.

To expand on this point, one of the best nights I had on cpap was after only 4 hours of sleep. But the quality was excellent and I felt energetic although I would still get tired from not enough sleep. Still, it was better than the periods where I slept longer and the quality stunk.

So the question to ask, is how functional do you feel after 6 hours and if you don't, make sure your therapy is optimized by looking at sleepyhead software and also look into optimal sleep hygiene.

49er

Sleep hygiene? Sleephead software?

AnotherMe wrote:

49er wrote:

MarylandCPAPer wrote:Do you feel rested after 6 hours? If not, can you go back to sleep with CPAP? The machine doesn't set my sleep hours. I get up when I feel sufficiently rested. I might have had trouble sleeping the full amount of time I needed when I started therapy, but I soon adjusted to getting as much sleep as I could or needed with CPAP.

To expand on this point, one of the best nights I had on cpap was after only 4 hours of sleep. But the quality was excellent and I felt energetic although I would still get tired from not enough sleep. Still, it was better than the periods where I slept longer and the quality stunk.

So the question to ask, is how functional do you feel after 6 hours and if you don't, make sure your therapy is optimized by looking at sleepyhead software and also look into optimal sleep hygiene.

49er

Sleep hygiene? Sleephead software?

Sorry about that. Click on the link in my signature to download the sleepyhead SW. I think my link for posting images is outdated but hopefully someone can tell you how to do it so you can received feedback.

Here are google links for sleep hygiene.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sleep+hygiene

49er wrote:

AnotherMe wrote:

49er wrote:

MarylandCPAPer wrote:Do you feel rested after 6 hours? If not, can you go back to sleep with CPAP? The machine doesn't set my sleep hours. I get up when I feel sufficiently rested. I might have had trouble sleeping the full amount of time I needed when I started therapy, but I soon adjusted to getting as much sleep as I could or needed with CPAP.

To expand on this point, one of the best nights I had on cpap was after only 4 hours of sleep. But the quality was excellent and I felt energetic although I would still get tired from not enough sleep. Still, it was better than the periods where I slept longer and the quality stunk.

So the question to ask, is how functional do you feel after 6 hours and if you don't, make sure your therapy is optimized by looking at sleepyhead software and also look into optimal sleep hygiene.

49er

Sleep hygiene? Sleephead software?

Sorry about that. Click on the link in my signature to download the sleepyhead SW. I think my link for posting images is outdated but hopefully someone can tell you how to do it so you can received feedback.

Here are google links for sleep hygiene.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sleep+hygiene

Thanks!

For the most part, I rarely sleep through the whole night. It is most common for me to sleep 3 to 4.5 hours and then wake up.

Trying at that time you just go back to sleep doesn't work. I need to get up, take a bathroom break check some items I need to track, and then after 30 our 40 mins head back to bed to finish up sleep for the night.

I will typically get another 3 to 4.5 hours for a normal total of around 7 to 8 hours sleep.

I am lucky to not have to need or use an alarm clock to wake up. I sometimes feel my worst when forced waking up in the middle of a sleep cycle. So most of the time I am waking up at the end of a 90 cycle or some combination of them.

Example, I just woke up near 4am after going to sleep around 10pm. If I got up for the day now, I'd do ok for the most part but would be tired later in the afternoon. Right now I am sitting on the edge of the bed using my phone to write this before I head to the bathroom.

I will be back to sleep by 4:30 and be back up between 7 and 8 o'clock.

When I have to get up too freakin' early, I often feel like an afternoon nap.
Since I am retired, I GO FOR IT! It's wonderful!
Naps count as therapy time as long as you use the machine. WIN, WIN, WIN!