Two hours of sleep

Hi All,

It can be hit or miss trying to figure out what triggers our poor night's of sleep. Sometimes mine are due to something I ate or if I overdid.

I've learned since we moved to Florida that my body can't handle a warm temperature for sleeping.

If it's too warm when I try to sleep, my muscles feel as though they're burning and tingling. Strange.

We put in a new central air conditioning system and it seems as if the unit can't keep up. We may have to move. I do love Florida. The heat is better for my fibro than the cold.

I'm glad my husband is so understanding and today will be an easy day for me.

Post Edited (almost medfree) : 6/16/2015 7:03:07 AM (GMT-6)

Thanks for the kind words, Kelvin, and the reminder.

I hope your day goes well and you sleep better tonight.

Hi Sherrine,

Thanks for your helpful words. We normally have the air conditioner running at 73 during the day and turn it down at 5 p.m. to 70 degrees so I can sleep. But last night, probably due to increased heat and humidity, it didn't get down to 71 until 1 a.m. I fell asleep at 3:00 and woke up at 5:00. Tonight I will probably sleep very well. But there's a problem, I just checked the thermostat and the unit isn't keeping up. It's 72 degrees in here.

Today I had the air conditioner running at 70 degrees all day to see if it can stay there. I'm wearing slacks and when I go outdoors I change into shorts. We even keep our blinds closed.

We did have an air conditioning guy come over about a week after it was installed and he said everything was fine after we told him about the issue. We're thinking the problem is that there may be no insulation on the exterior walls and our condo faces southwest. Plus we're on the third floor and the condo on the first floor is unoccupied.

Our air conditioning unit is located in a closet. If we were to put in a larger unit we would have to tear up some walls. We were careful to select the most powerful unit we could fit in there.

Thanks again.

Post Edited (almost medfree) : 6/16/2015 2:09:56 PM (GMT-6)

Thanks, Sherrine. What you are saying makes sense. We called the air conditioner contractor and they're sending someone out tomorrow.

I learned through this phone call we just made that an air conditioner is designed to drop the temperature only about 20 degrees. He told us June, July, and August are Florida's hottest months and it takes a while for a northerner to get use to it.

Thanks again.