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Posted 2/18/2013 7:18 PM (GMT 0)
Has anyone found it helpful, health wise, to wake up and go to bed at the same time seven days a week?
Posted 2/18/2013 7:57 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, Keribethmable! I don't think I've seen you before. Welcome! In answer to your question...YES! That's what I call a sleep schedule and I've been doing this for over 20 years. My body knows when I lay down in bed, it's time to sleep. I usually fall asleep within fifteen minutes. I get up around the same time every morning, too. I think routines really help me.

I also don't take naps. A catnap every once in a while, but not a regular hour or two nap. If I napped, I wouldn't be able to go to sleep at night. I wil still have my occasional restless night...especially if I have something on my mind...but most usually I'm asleep by 10:30 PM and up by 7:00 AM.

Sherrine
Posted 2/18/2013 8:36 PM (GMT 0)
As much as possible, yes. Sometimes, this works better in theory than in practice.

Three days a week, I try to be at work by 7:30. The other two, I usually will sleep until my body wakes up. Luckily, every four months I get a different schedule, which helps. The weekends are weird, because I travel a good bit.

I do tend to do better with more consistent scheduling, but have a hard time maintaining that, at least right now. My best overall schedule in recent memory was a start time at 10 three times a week, and 11 am twice a week.
Posted 2/18/2013 9:44 PM (GMT 0)
I try to go bed by about 9:15-9:30 every night and get up around 5:15 AM. I think it's helped my sleep schedule, and my body seems to "know" when it's time to go to sleep. I still get occasional insomnia some nights, but thankfully, that's becoming more rare.

I believe our bodies become sort of "trained" to follow a pattern, and I think it's a good idea.
Posted 2/19/2013 2:05 AM (GMT 0)
Welcome Keri :)

Yes, and I do it as much as posible. Not really so much for my Fibro anymore, but for max muscle recovery from my workout(s) the day before.

I'm typically a pretty solid sleeper anyway.... but I take 5mg melatonin just for good measure ;)

Peace,
Fish
Posted 2/19/2013 10:48 AM (GMT 0)
I try to keep to my strict sleep schedule. It seems with fibro my body is much more sensitive about needing to do this to get a decent night's sleep.
Posted 2/21/2013 1:48 AM (GMT 0)
I had always been a person who lay down and went right to sleep and slept through the night. But then this happened as well and insominia and sleep apnea.

Now I lay down at ten at night and sleep in bed til around 4 or so and wake up hurting. I get up, take my morning pain med and get in my chair. If I am lucky I dose back off til my hubby gets up.

I rarely nap during the day.
Posted 2/21/2013 2:28 PM (GMT 0)
Why not test it? TESTING - a proven means of determining what will work - for YOU.

Keep track of your symptoms and pain level over a 2 week period doing what your doing now relative to sleep patterns and schedule.

Then for 2 weeks adhere to a strict sleep schedule - same time to bed and same time up and out of bed. Again - track symptoms and pain.

In a month - instead of asking others about what they think (and remember their fibro is not the same as your fibro) look at your records and see for yourself what difference it makes for YOU.


Terry
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