Getting More Sleep Makes Me More Tired! Anyone Else?

Before CPAP I regularly went to bed around 1-2am, and regularly woke up around 6am-7am.

Now that I have been using CPAP, I am a little more aware of my sleep habits, plus I tend to get tired earlier than I used to. Nowadays I sleep around 10-12pm (mostly right in the middle at 11pm) and I get up around 7am.

So I am getting more sleep. And not only that, I am clinically getting more restful sleep. HOWEVER, I always seem to be tired now-a-days, even though I am getting more sleep. Has anyone had that phenomenon before? Very odd.

Are you tired during the day, or are you sleepy? If you're tired, you might talk with your doctor about tests to see whether there's something else going on. You might also review side-effects for any medications you've started taking since you started sleeping longer.

And have you tried making yourself get up earlier? My guess is that this wouldn't help, but it might be worth an experiment for a week or so.

Finally, if you use Oscar or SleepHQ, you might post a chart or two in case there's something going on that someone here might be able to spot.

I am not tired during the day (or sleepy). But I do get tired/sleepy earlier in the evening. Around 9-10pm I start feeling tired/sleepy.

Which, like I said, I find weird since before I was able to stay up to 1am-2am every night without feeling tired at all. I'd have to force myself to go to bed at that time.

I am sure everything is fine. Maybe the restfulness is contagious, and now that I am getting some quality sleep, my body craves it.

Oh good; I thought you meant your were tired all the time. But getting sleepy earlier at night isn't really a problem. For whatever reason, your body is shifting your schedule around on you. I'd say to do what it's telling you to do.