Can't sleep at night
Question:
I’m a newbie to this newsgroup so maybe this topic has been discussed before. I can sleep pretty well during the day. If I go to sleep about 7 a.m. then I can be to sleep within 10 minutes or so. However, I have a terribly difficult time going to sleep at night. I often lay in bed for 5 hours trying to sleep before I finally give up. I would simply start sleeping during the days but I need to be up for my work. So I get up exhausted day after day because I didn’t get any sleep at night. I’m also quite sleepy in the early evening. I started waking up at about 8 p.m. and then don’t really get sleepy again until morning. I haven’t seen a sleep doctor, but I thought some of you might have some thoughts on the problem.
Response:
> I’m a newbie to this newsgroup so maybe this topic has been discussed > before. I can sleep pretty well during the day. If I go to sleep about 7 > a.m. then I can be to sleep within 10 minutes or so. However, I have a > terribly difficult time going to sleep at night. I often lay in bed for 5 > hours trying to sleep before I finally give up. I would simply start > sleeping during the days but I need to be up for my work. So I get up > exhausted day after day because I didn’t get any sleep at night. I’m also > quite sleepy in the early evening. I started waking up at about 8 p.m. and > then don’t really get sleepy again until morning. I haven’t seen a sleep > doctor, but I thought some of you might have some thoughts on the problem.
sounds like Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome – it’s no fun I know. Some have improvement with the use of Light Therapy where you sit under a special bright light in the morning to try and train your body to react to light the way it should – ie, gets light, you wake up, gets dark, you get sleepy There’s lots of info on DSPS on the net, but i haven’t had a chance to put any on the FAQ website for this newsgroup — Beth in Australia (I am not a medical professional and anything stated in my posts is my opinion only unless specified otherwise) =================== FAQ for alt.support.sleep-disorder can be found here http://talhost.net/sleep Newsgroup Archives http://talhost.net/sleep/archives.htm this site is a work in progress – feel free to submit info/articles Remove my name to reply
