Resetting my internal time clock.

[Artjr102]

Hi Everyone,

I just had a semi miracle happen in my life. With this Restless Leg my good sleep time was after 5:30 AM in the morning. I got lucky and moved it up over the last year or two maybe 2:30 AM in the morning.

Now the good news. I went away on 11 day trip of a lifetime to Italy. I was scared to death going over there because my restless leg and the long plane flight. I was prepared for the worst but I had a Ten unit on our he plane and I placed the sticky pads placed on the back of my lower calf muscles. With a small electrical impulse there it seemed to help a good bit. Once we were in Italy I had to adjust to a six hour time difference. Coming back that benefited me.😊 Now instead of my prime sleeping time being 5:30AM it’s now 11 to 11:30 PM. It’s awesome!! I feel like I have a new life now. I’m able to get up by 7 AM in the morning feeling refreshed and ready for work. Praise the Lord!

I’m still taking my standard medication but my internal timeclock is back to normal. My internal time clock originally got thrown off when I went through augmentation withdraw 2 1/2 years ago.

[Joolsg]

Great to hear you’ve reset your body clock. Hope you had a wonderful holiday in Italy- it’s only a 2 hour flight from London so I have had many great holidays over there.

[Hidden]

That's great news.

If your sleep pattern gets out of sync with your time zone there's a couple of tricks you can try to reset your sleep clock without the expense of going to Italy and back.

One - since our circadian clocks are naturally regulated by the sun rising and setting, light regulates our sleep cycle. When you change time zones your circadian rhythms have to adjust to the new timing if sunset - sunrise. It resets itself in 2 - 3 days. It's due to receptors in your eyes sending signals to your pineal gland. The pineal gland secretes a hormone, melatonin in response to changes in light and melatonin regulates sleep. You can adjust your sleep clock then by exposing yourself to lots of natural light in the day and avoiding artificial light in the evening.

Two - try going to bed earlier in half hour steps. Think how long you normally sleep and when you want to get up. Go in half hour steps until you're going to bed your normal number of hours before the time you want to get up. Don't take another half step before you've achieved the previous one.

[Artjr102 in reply to Hidden]

Great info, thanks