Posted by 4wd on November 3, 2005, at 23:05:14
In reply to Re: Waking up Early » 4wd, posted by Declan on November 3, 2005, at 1:24:24
Hi Declan,
I've saved your post so I can investigate your suggestions. My pdoc today gave me Ambien CR to try. Short term for 10 days or I can use it intermittently to try and get the ocasional good nights sleep 2 or 3 times a week so I can keep going the rest of the time.
One thing did help. If I set my alarm clock for a couple of hours before I would normally wake up and take my .5mg klonopin then and go back to sleep, I would then be able to sleep long enough to get in 8 hours. But I'd still wake up scared and have to take more Klonopin which I didn't like doing.
Did you say you go to bed a 8 and get up at 3? Why? What if you went to bed at 9 or 10 and got up at 4 or 5? Or would you wake up at three anyway and get even less sleep? That's what happens to me when I try going to bed earlier. I just wake up that much earlier.
Have you ever seen a endocrinologist about this? Do you wake up nervous or just too early?
Marsha
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