Premature awakening

gregnga · Post by **gregnga** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:23 pm

I have a problem in which I wake up after about 4 hours and can't get back to sleep. This has nothing to do with the machine. What happens is that I sleep so deeply that I feel fully rested after 4 or 5 hours. I figure it must be time to get up and go to work because I feel so great only to look a the clock to see it's 3am. Then by 11am, I am totally exhausted.

What can I do

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:46 pm

gregnga wrote:I have a problem in which I wake up after about 4 hours and can't get back to sleep. This has nothing to do with the machine. What happens is that I sleep so deeply that I feel fully rested after 4 or 5 hours. I figure it must be time to get up and go to work because I feel so great only to look a the clock to see it's 3am. Then by 11am, I am totally exhausted.

What can I do

I think that happens to alot of us......regardless of how long we've been on therapy.
I imagine everyone has their own solutions and it would depend on what wakes them up.
If I can't get right back to sleep (feeling rested), I get up and go do something for 15 min. to a half hour. Then, go back to bed and see if I can get to sleep. That usually works for me.

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roster · Post by **roster** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:34 am

gregnga wrote:I have a problem in which I wake up after about 4 hours and can't get back to sleep. This has nothing to do with the machine. What happens is that I sleep so deeply that I feel fully rested after 4 or 5 hours. I figure it must be time to get up and go to work because I feel so great only to look a the clock to see it's 3am. Then by 11am, I am totally exhausted.

What can I do

From another thread:

rooster wrote:
I have the same problem. It is called "premature awakening". I get three to five hours (average four hours) of good sleep and then the going gets tough.

In the last two months there has been some improvement for me. Cold weather helps with my sleeping. Also, I have changed some things. My exercise program has been stepped up to a level I never thought was achievable again in this life.

Also, when I have that premature awakening, I take 2 x 500 mg acetaminophen which I keep in a little dosed container on the nightstand (don't want to have to fumble around or think too much and get even more wide awake). The acetaminophen seems to allow another two to three hours of sleep.

Before I tried the acetaminophen, I tried 3 mg melatonin at my premature awakening. This also allowed two to three hours of additional sleep. This may have helped to break a bad cycle of not being able to go back to sleep. Eventually I switched off the melatonin to the acetaminophen because the melatonin leaves a somewhat groggy effect for a good part of the next day.

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