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What do you feel is the main reason for your sleep problems?
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Been struggling with sleep since I was a child. It got worse when I entered high school (around 13 yrs old) and its still ongoing. Anxiety, depression, fear, bad sleep habits/hygiene are the main reasons.
Been struggling with on and off since teens but mainly since the year 2000 when had 1st car crash pain issues caused disturbed sleep.
Diagnosed last year with sleep apneoa
My copd interrupts my sleep constantly, restfullness breathing difficulties are the problem, ive been like this for almost 10yrs now
On and off for most of my life (now 71) . Daily problems prey on my mind and go around and around in my head.
I can't really say this or that is the main reason for my sleep issues. I used to be a good sleeper in my teens, twenties and thirties. The problem started in my 40s though I can't categorically say it's due to age.
I am 55 now.
I had periods of a couple weeks since 2010, but this time it's been every night since last November
I have REM-Sleep Behaviour Disorder (part of Parkinson’s Disease) and OSA. I have had RBD for 20 years and OSA for 7 years.
Been struggling with sleep since I was a teenager. Sometimes anxiety is a factor but I also have physical health conditions that affect my sleep.
I have copd and asthma as well as osa. Also I am a bit overweight. I have arthritis in my knees. My breathing when walking does make me tired but I cope well with my c-pap.
The main reason is the Sleep Apnea, and in spite of reading until I am tired, usually 11 pm, as soon as I put on the mask for the C PAP machine, I am wide awake.
My trouble staying asleep begin abrubtly when I turned 65, a couple of years ago. About the same time I felt depressed and things sometimes upset me. Apnea is also an issue for me.
Been struggling with sleep since the birth of my youngest son who will turn 7 tomorrow bless him! First of all I just thought it was down to bring a mum of 2 boys and of course you get real tired to get them all in a routine etc but when he was sleeping through the night at 4 months I still struggled to unbroken sleep. Been back and forth to the doctor's since then and get fobbing me off just saying I'm a working mum and after a 10 day hospital admission it turns out I have ulcerative colitis with vit d and b12 deficiencies and this explains my constant fatigue!
I can trace this back 20 years without fully knowing. I was diagnosed with OSA around 5 years ago.
I suffered from Bronchitis and Pneumonia as a child, being on life support from about 8 months old to about 15 months old according to my parents. I do not know if it was from then or from birth, but I have always suffered from sleep issues.
As a child I often would fall asleep during the day and wake up not knowing how I got to where I woke up. On several occasions I would wake in the car and no-one else would be there so I would get out of the car, lock the doors (no alarms in them days), and go looking for my parents. I was one of five, four sisters and myself; you would think one of them would notice me missing.
I got the slipper for falling asleep during P.E. and during class (being called lazy), but it was not until I was 38 when I got really ill again with Bronchitis and Pneumonia that I was finally diagnosed with Narcolepsy. Only now do I understand why I have sleep trouble.
I still wake up and have no idea how I got to where I am, but at least now I recognise the symptoms that I am going to fall asleep, so can put myself somewhere safe. Also I get a couple of hours warning so am safe to drive; I hand the keys over to my wife and daughter if I am with them, or find somewhere I can park for an hour or so.
Bed at 09:00 for 09:30 and up at 06:10 each day, but being awake for two hours before. This all helps the routine. If I am up late it kills me for a few days.
I have had incoming sleep problems since I was 30 and I am 55 now. Don’t know for sure the cause but stress and going to bathroom frequently does not help.
As mentioned previously, I have had severe Restless Legs Syndrome for many years and as a result suffer from Insomnia. The different medications I have used for RLS also have insomnia as a side effect which has exacerbated the situation.
Since I was a child.
I have now been struggling with sleep problems for 2 & a half years almost
I have struggled with sleep for over 30 years. Anxiety seems to be the major culprit! There are times when it's worse than others. I like down, and my mind starts spinning. I can't turn thoughts off. I'm retired now, but, before I was allowed to go on disability because of mental issues, I worried about work. If I fell asleep, I was plagued with horrific nightmares, including sleep paralysis. The fear of having nightmares is also a big reason I have problems falling asleep now.
Since ive had anxiety ive had terrible problems with sleep. Its getting me down and among me feel worse, last night i was in bed around 10 didnt sleep til after 4am and woke up abruptly at 7am. I cant sleep in the day either, just doesnt work.
For over 30 years.
I have been diagnosed with mixed sleep apnea because I am on opiates for chronic pain, I was issued an ASV machine but it has made my lack of sleep even worse. I also don't enter into any sleep stages other than deep sleep (from my sleep study). The average amount of deep sleep a person should get is 20%, I get 84% with no rem sleep, no light sleep & no dreaming either. My sleep dr thinks the huge abnormal amount of deep sleep I get on the rare occasion I manage to fall asleep is also due to the opiates. I myself also seem to think that there is possibly something else going on as the ASV machine I was given should have helped me get to sleep & stay asleep, not make it all worse. I don't think my depression has any impact either as when I had depression before, I had no trouble sleeping & was sleeping all the time. What I would do to just get a solid 8hrs a night sleep & to be able to fall asleep within 5min after my head hits the pillow. #WishfullThinking
On and off since teenage years. It made my working life difficult and now I’m older it’s become very much worse. I grew up in a city that went on all night so maybe I have expectations of the night that are unrealistic. I often felt when I worked that the night was when my life began, meaning I could do the things I wanted to do.
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