Sleep Question.

A few questions. Do you take any supplements, binders, herbs, or meds before bed? Is there a chance that your mattress or bedroom has mold, allergens, or toxins in it? Do you sleep above or near a wifi router? Do you use white noise? Do you sleep poorly and/or wake up at the wrong part of a sleep cycle? Do you make sure to stay hydrated?

I didn't realize how common this is/was with Lyme and co-infections. Sleep deprivation/insomnia can be debilitating to cognitive health. Then I watched Dr. M R webinar and first-heard about some Rx's that are commonly prescribed to achieve REM and deeper sleep of restorative healing quality. These are Trazodone and Doxepin very common sleep meds. If I had Medical Rx Cannabis I would do that instead, because I think as a general rule, psych. meds are not very good at all esp. SSRIs (see Buhner and others on this) for lyme and co-infections (these Rx sleep meds Doxepin and Trazodone are both tricyclic antidepressants that are prescribed off-label for achieving/maintaining sleep). I didn't start sleeping fairly well until my sleep apnea was diagnosed and started on a VPAP machine along with the above-mentioned Rx sleep meds, which again I would consider tossing altogether if I had some good Indica Rx'd. Having said all of this, my diet is often poor and I'd say in the last month I've had maybe 1 or 2 good nights of sleep to where I could do an average amount of chores errands the next day... :/

Non-restorative un-refreshing sleep is very common with this disease complex. That said, you could do a sleep study to look at things like restless leg syndrome, I also have this; and other things like central sleep apnea, you don't need to be overweight to have this, as I have mixed central and obstructive sleep apnea, and it had severely impacted my quality of life.

Lastly, even though a pulmonologist (who ordered the sleep study and rx'd the Vpap machine) treats the sleep apnea; sadly, and so frustratingly that any mention of lyme borreliosis gets completely dismissed and ignored.

They've improved sleep studies with less wires on you vs in the past.

I had about one-two hours of sleep in each of the two studies I did ten years ago. It wasnt enough data to do much with. You need to be able to sleep for the study to work lol. Never reached REM. Did have a few breathing interruptions and several c-pap masks did not help.

Problem as I figured out later were these combinations:
1) over energized nervous system (common here with anxiety/adrenals) so my brain would not relax even though I was dead tired.
2) sinus drainage - enough at times to block airway while sleeping on my back
3) synthetic T4 synthroid thyroid med- my body prefers natural pig thyroid with t4 and t3.
4) body and nerve pain that took years to resolve enough to sleep thru
5) nightime gerd (I resolved with d-limonene) waking me added to all of this

Thanks every one for their input. A lot of great advice. Much appreciated.

I do have a lot of dreams so I’m guessing I’m getting into the the right cycles but I don’t know a lot about this stuff.

Saraeli and borrello. I have read a lot about glymphatic system and it has always intrigued me. Was there any mention of how to improve it?

Craniosacral therapy is amazing! For this purpose, don't opt for the biodynamic variety. Lymphatic massage more broadly, rebounding and keeping your body moving, and sleep are the best things for glymphatic drainage.