waking up at 4:30am

Hi all,

I am getting a better quality of sleep now. However, for some reason I am waking up at 4:30am. I fall asleep at about 10:30pm. 6 hours of sleep isn't bad i guess but I would like to be able to sleep till at least 6am. Does or did anyone else have this issue?

Same thing here. For some reason I'll go in three hour cycles. 10:30 bedtime, 1:30 wake, 4:30 wake, and then I have to get up at 6. Just one of those things. One thing to think about though...your body is probably rested by 4:30 now, whereas before you would sleep longer to get the same benefit before CPAP.

I think helmentheadbob may be on to something here.

You have been very used to fragmented sleep in your pre-CPAP days. And among many other things, one of the things with fragmented sleep is that it's not very restorative. So it takes (a lot) more of it in the sense of clock hours for you to feel rested than it takes of quality, non-fragmented sleep to feel rested. With CPAP, you may very well be getting much more high quality, unfragmented sleep.

If you want to sleep until 6:00 and you are currently waking up every morning at 4:30 am when you go to bed at 10:30 pm, then maybe you simply don't need that much unfragmented, good quality restorative sleep every night.

Try pushing bedtime back to 11:30 or midnight for a few days and keeping wake up time at 6:00 am and see if you sleep past 4:30 and start waking up when you want to start waking up and at the same time still feeling fine during the day.