Just can't sleep

Unfortunately, yes. I can get to sleep just fine, but I can only get 4-6 hours a night (which just isn't enough for me). I believe fibro has a sleep disorder component. Also, I wake up after a few hours because I am hurting from lying still, and I can't get back to sleep. (I'm writing this as someone who went to bed last night around midnight and was up by 4:30 this morning. *sigh*)

Hugs - Austen

Sheila,

Unfortunately, the problem of insomnia is way too common. I've had Fibro all my life, not dx till about 5 yrs ago.

As a child, I drove my mother crazy - I couldn't take a nap. Then at bedtime, I couldn't go to sleep. I would lay in my bed until about

4 AM or so, fall off and wake up less than an hr later, just before my alarm went off.

As an adult, I go to bed about 10 PM w/ a Tylenol PM, I get to sleep around 12 AM, wake about 2:30 - 3:30 AM. Between my thimble-sized bladder, the burning pain in my back and the burning down my leg - I'M UP. So begins my day.

You would think after all these yrs, I would be used to this, not so. I am so tired. I try to exercise early in the day, try to keep as busy as possible, eat right and drink plenty of water (early until about 6 PM). I can't/don't nap, but I do have to stop during the day and lay down on a heating pad to rest my back. Every one in my birth family and my family here (DH and children + 'puppy') love to nap, and they sleep so deeply. They can't understand how I can't sleep. Me neither! 

I hope you can get some rest this eve.

God bless.  Alice.

Like Alice, I have had sleep difficulties all my life. Even as a child, I was an insomniac. I always had difficulties falling asleep, and was often awake until the early hours of the morning. I would wake up each morning, often tireder than I was when I went to bed. As a younger adult, this pattern continued. Finally, in my 30's, I started having no trouble falling asleep, but would still wake up exhausted. Then in recent years, I started waking during the early hours of the morning in a sweat, then dozing and waking a few minutes later for the remainder of the night. This was when I got diagnosed, and the doctor put me on Trazodone. This has helped me to remain asleep, and, for some reason, the night sweats have stopped. I still wake up tired, but not as bad as before. It is also much easier to deal with pain when I get a better night's sleep.

 My sleep patterns are crazy.  Either I sleep like a rock or can't fall asleep.  Sometimes I fall asleep at 8:00pm and sleep till 7:00am.  I give up trying to figure it out