Okay for the past 6 days. I go to bed, I have no trouble falling asleep. But what happens is this, I wake up 4 hours later. Then I can't fall asleep again. If I take no pills, it will take me approximately 2 hours and 33 mins to try and fall asleep again. Then after that I sleep for 4 hours. I only really need 9 hours of sleep or 8 hours of sleep. But I go way past when I want to wake up. Not to mention frustrating for me to sit there for 2 hours and 33 mins to try and fall asleep again.
Problem is now, to remedy the problem I take 12mg of diphenhydramine when I wake up. This usually works, it takes me 1 hour to fall asleep after I only sleep for 4 hours. Friday it worked wonders, because I went to bed at 8 am, woke up at 1:00 pm. Then fell asleep again at 2:00pm, and woke up at 4:30 pm.
But today it worked disastoursly. I went to bed at 9:15 am, woke up at 1:20 pm. It only took about 1 hour and 15 mins to fall asleep. but this time I woke up at 8:30 pm. That is 11 hours of asleep I didn't need. And I felt a bit drugged up aswell. I had my alarm clock set at 5:00 pm. I don't know if I woke up at 5:00 pm, but I kept setting the clock further ahead. Sometimes I don't even wake up when the alarm clock is set.
I don't know what's going on. I never had this problem before. And if I did , it only lasts one day. I should be able to go to bed at 8 am and wake up at 4:00 pm, or 5:00 pm. That's my usual sleep schedule. Sometimes if I do get up 4 hours later, I can fall asleep easily (in the past). But now I can't. I'm not working or anything, I don't have any un-needed stress right now. I use to work the night shift, that's why I'm on this sleep schedule. But it's not the sleep schedule that's the problem. It's every night I go to bed at 7 am or 8 am. And wake up at 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm. Then can't fall asleep again.
Diphenhydramine makes me over sleep. I tried diphenydramine before I go to bed, that seems to work, but it makes me over sleep. And it's a temporary solution. As you probably already know, if you keep using it. It will eventually stop working.
I need some advice, I'm not sure what the problem is. If it's stress then why the heck do I fall asleep so quickly? If it's excitement, then I'm not really excited for anything to happen the next day, anyways, I have no plans. I'm not playing video games all night either. Just relaxing, doing things on my computer, watching TV, etc.
I do exercise and work out, Tues, Thurs, Sat. I exercise in the morning on a eliptical ( I started doing this 2 weeks ago). And then on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday I work out with weights.
This is normal routine for years. So I don't think it factors into it? Is it winter depression? It is cold in my room when I wake up. It is a harsh winter. It is usually 55F when I get up in my room. I turn the heater on when that happens. I don't think this is it either, since I have been going through this the whole winter. Maybe my mind has finally snapped because of the winter. It's still single digits and it's March. I don't know if that's it either. I don't feel depressed either. I do feel pissed off about the weather, but that doesn't mean I'm depressed.
I also sometimes take 2 hour naps some days, but that is also been normal for months for me to do. Not sure if this is a contributing factor.
Any advice, would be appreciated.