kvck wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:32 am
The real problem is not the disruption during the night, but the tiredness and bad mood in the mornings.
The tiredness and bad mood comes from poor sleep quality which is caused by the wake ups during the night.
Now what the cause of the wake ups might be??? That of course is the million dollar question.
If you didn't wake up during the night and try to go back to sleep then you wouldn't have little clusters of sleep onset centrals to make the sleep quality worst.
Figuring out the cause of multiple wake ups....it's hard sometimes and even when we know the cause the fix isn't necessarily easy to accomplish anyway. Trust me...been there and done that myself.
Sleep maintenance insomnia is a real bitch to deal with because so often we can't put a finger on the original cause that creates the cascading of the negative problems. Poor sleep quality itself can cause more negatives like stress, anxiety, etc which in turn feeds that sleep maintenance insomnia monster even more. So a round robin of cascading worsening of everything.
When we don't sleep good...whatever the reason...we can't expect to feel so good during the day.
I don't know you entire history but for people like you we start with the basics to try to isolate the cause of the sleep maintenance insomnia.
While I know the knee jerk reaction is to put the blame on the cpap settings and hope that little tweaks might be just the trick. You want to put the blame on the sleep onset centrals instead of putting the blame on what caused the wake up in the first place that created the going back to sleep situation which in turn allows the sleep onset centrals to pop up and create more sleep disruption.
What about the basics first in terms of potential causes?
Medication side effects messing with sleep....do you take any meds of any kind, even OTC????
Any other physical or mental health issues going on? We already know that you admit to some stress or anxiety as a result of the crappy sleep. Anything else? Bed comfort? Mask comfort? Aches and pains?
Has there been a discussion of maybe trying some sort of sleep aid either RX or OTC to help maybe break the round robin cycle??? You know that sometimes there is a time and place for some extra help.
It's hard I know because most of the sleep aids out there are designed to help with falling asleep and not so much the staying asleep problem.
How old are you? Any health conditions that might make taking some sort of sleep aid causing a problem?
I may have to RISE but I refuse to SHINE.
If you want to try the Eclipse mask and want a special promo code to get a little off the price...send me a private message.
but I suppose I need to give myself some time and change my focus to different matters for sure.
