As I have ramped up yardage I assumed I would sleep more. Unfortunately this has not been the case. I go to sleep very quickly and then between 1-3am(the last two nights it's been 2.15am) I wake up and then can't go back to sleep. I have tried using melatonin with no luck. I am very reluctant to use anything else due to its affect on my swimming. Has anyone else experienced anything similar and if so and thoughts on how to sleep? I am planning on heading to my doctor to see what they recommend.
If you can't just roll with it, and you drink alcohol, you might try not drinking at all in the evenings. Alcohol disrupts my sleep even in quantities far smaller than would be unhealthful in any other way.Alas I am closing in on making the decision to become a teetotaler for sleep reasons. Over my 40s (I'm turning 46 this year) and especially the last 2 years, I've noticed that even a single drink at night with dinner messes up my quality and quantity of sleep. The only nights I truly sleep well is when I don't drink anything ... and I start to sleep exceptionally well when I've gone a week or more without drinking alcohol. On top of that, my wife reports that the only nights I don't snore is when I don't drink and that my snoring is exponentially connected to my drinking -- one drink and she can manage to tolerate my snores, two drinks and it gets really annoying, three drinks and ... well, let's just say that I completely void the adage "happy wife = happy life."
If you can't just roll with it, and you drink alcohol, you might try not drinking at all in the evenings. Alcohol disrupts my sleep even in quantities far smaller than would be unhealthful in any other way.Alas I am closing in on making the decision to become a teetotaler for sleep reasons. Over my 40s (I'm turning 46 this year) and especially the last 2 years, I've noticed that even a single drink at night with dinner messes up my quality and quantity of sleep. The only nights I truly sleep well is when I don't drink anything ... and I start to sleep exceptionally well when I've gone a week or more without drinking alcohol. On top of that, my wife reports that the only nights I don't snore is when I don't drink and that my snoring is exponentially connected to my drinking -- one drink and she can manage to tolerate my snores, two drinks and it gets really annoying, three drinks and ... well, let's just say that I completely void the adage "happy wife = happy life."
