6- 6.5 hours sleep per night.....I want more

[gabagoo]

Not really a CPAP question but CPAP does not help with it at all.

Even before I started with CPAP I found myself waking up earlier and earlier. Now it seems to be part of my inner clock. I go to bed at about 11 and might fall asleep before 11:30 and then I am awake at 5:30 with several wakings during the night to adjust the mask. When it is 5:30 or so I can tell that I am done sleeping and won't fall back asleep and get up shower and go to work. The cycle continues on weekends making for extremely long days. I so want to sleep another hour or so but can't seem to get my internal clock to shut off...I have been thinking as of late that maybe it has something to do with wifi throughout the house and am considering putting a timer on the modem. I have tried melatonin but it does not work either.... any thoughts on this?

[FifthAvenue]

If you are in good health, feel rested, and feel well, enjoy your life. Make productive use of your day. Spend the extra time helping others.

[Snoregone Conclusion]

You've not provided nearly enough information to even begin to guess. For some people, that amount of sleep is optimal: if that's you, we don't know. That can largely depend on activity level or lack thereof: no clue what you do throughout the day from this post, how physical it is, how mental, what's going through your mind. It's harder to sleep if you don't get a healthy amount of exercise.

The WiFi thought isn't logical, unless your equipment is somehow emitting a lower frequency signal your body can detect that causes irritation but you don't notice right away. What that would be, I have no idea, because the only one within human perception would be the transformers at 50-60 Hz, depending on where you're at, but that's easy to fall (and keep) asleep to. It's certainly not the radio frequencies used, those are way above human perception in any manner.

Check out your sleep hygiene before you start suspecting things like WiFi itself. Check out your diet: stimulants, such as caffeine?

How rested do you feel with that amount of sleep? If you're rested, do as the previous poster suggests, make productive use of that time: I'd love to sleep 6-6.5 hours a night if I were fully rested and otherwise perfectly healthy, and get other things done, if I didn't actually need that much sleep. I'm new to treatment, and the thought of being able to sleep 6-6.5 hours non-stop in a night feels like a luxury I might not accomplish, as I've not done that at all, in YEARS.

[Snoregone Conclusion]

Another thing or more to add:

We are very cycle-driven as to what's natural for us when we sleep and wake, whether we like it or not: perhaps if you want to sleep longer, you need to go to bed earlier, because your body is just fixated on waking up at that relative time, regardless of what you want to do. Try going to bed earlier and waking up at the same time, perhaps 15 minutes earlier until that demonstrates what time you wake up, and then keep doing that.

But certainly check what your dietary stimulant situation is, your overall sleep hygiene, exercise, and for that matter, have you checked out how things are going via SleepyHead for data? One of the biggest influences for me to get a sleep study is how often I've awakened in a state of flowing adrenaline and stress hormones, which made it very difficult to impossible to fall back asleep. As the night goes on, that becomes harder and harder, and staying asleep towards the latter part of the intended sleep time is very hard to make work.

[Sissy63]

I finally had to give in and start a low does of amitriptyline (25 mg). I was not sleeping and I was miserable. That was after being on the auto CPAP since the middle of June. I have zero problems with my mask now after trying 7. I have been on the amitriptyline for for 2 1/2 weeks and it is definitely helping with my sleep. My body is still trying to get use to it, so I tend to be a little groggy for part of the day. For whatever reason, I developed some low level anxiety, so I am hoping it helps with that as well. I don't know what is causing the anxiety and wonder if it is from years and years of not getting adequate oxygen and sleep. I just don't know, but I want it to go away yesterday! I don't like the thought of taking medication, but I have to sleep and I have too much responsibility to not be sleeping.

[palerider]

Not really a CPAP question but CPAP does not help with it at all.

My thought is... read the newbie sticky, post some charts... just because you're using a cpap doesn't mean that it's working.

Let's make sure your cpap is working well, and see if that helps with the issue.

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