Sleep Woes.

[swestrup]

Well, so far the light therapy hasn't worked very well. I'm not giving up on it though. I'm going to rotate my hours around the old-fashioned way by staying up as long as I can before going to bed, and then sleeping in as much as possible. Once I'm getting up in the morning again, I'll try to do the light therapy thing at exactly the same time every morning and see if I can manage to 'lock' my circadian rhythms. No idea if it will work, but its worth a try.

In other news, as often happens when I start messing with my sleep schedule, I've got another migraine today. Luckily I've taken my pills and had vast amounts of coffee, so I'm not actually hurting, but I am feeling awfully delicate.

Comments

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Steve thinks you might have sleep apnea. I know that Sante-Quebec covers CPAP machines at least partially. Go to the doc and see if you can schedule a sleep study. Having a CPAP has changed Steve's life, even if it does mean we can't hug at night and he looks like the Snuffleupagus.

[swestrup]

Yes, getting into a sleep study is on my to-do list, but its probably going to take me many months before (if) it happens.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried melatonin? (I think it's prescription-only in Canada, though, so I guess the suggestion's not very helpful.)

[swestrup]

A number of folks have suggested Melatonin in the past, and while I'm certainly willing to try it, my reading up on it makes me dubious about how well its likely to work on me.

[angorian.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that someone with such sleeping difficulty really should avoid caffeine. I'm not sure that coffee will help you set a natural sleep schedule in the long run.

[swestrup]

Perhaps not. I have given up caffeine on occasion but its never seemed to help much with my sleeping. Also, if I get a migraine, the caffeine is part of the medication to deal with it. The pills I take don't do much unless I also drink several espressos with them.