For some reason my middle of the night insomnia is back with a vengeance after a few months of really good sleep. I fall asleep easily every night but wake up somewhere between 11:30-12:30 and then cannot get back to sleep until about 3:00 when I will grab a few more hours of sleep. Needless to say, I’m tired after a week of this. It sure seems like my cortisol is jacked up again since I’m feeling more anxious on top of not being able to sleep. So, tonight I go back on sleep restriction and see if I can get this back into a better pattern like I did last time around. Other than that all is good with regards to SIBO as I’ll be at 7 months on Monday since I stopped treatment with no relapse!
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Sleep restriction one week in
I’ve been on my sleep restriction plan for a little over a week now. The first few nights I slept pretty well then I cratered but since then have worked my way back up to where last night I slept my whole allowed 6.5 hours. I’m hoping that this trend of high sleep efficiency continues and I can start adding in some extra sleep time at the end of next week. I was pretty drug out the first 4 days of this but now am used to sleeping less and actually feel pretty good most of the day but do get really tired around 7 p.m. Staying up after Catherine goes to bed is the tough part, I just want to go to bed then too but usually have another 90-120 minutes to stay up.
Sleep issues, if it isn’t one thing it’s another
For the last two weeks my sleep has been really rough while my SIBO has been minimal and my weight has been on an increase finally. I never sleep great but usually I can eek out 7.5-8 hours per night with a few wake ups in there but since coming back from Iowa early in the month I have been progressively sleeping less and less with many more interruptions in my sleep. For the last week, at least, my pattern is to fall asleep no problem, wake up 2 hours later and then fall back asleep after maybe a bit of reading. I then wake up again 1.5-2 hours after that feeling pretty wide awake, my body thinks it is 4:30 in the morning and it is 1:00. I then never really sleep great after that, I’ll doze off and wake up again every few minutes. Some mornings I crash again around 4:30 and finally crawl out of bed between 5:30-6:30.