Keep waking up in the night...HELP!

[cooleymax]

Hi all, for the last 3 weeks for seemingly absolutely no reason, I keep waking up in the night. Sometimes at least twice and often more times than this. I just changed jobs (from a horrible one which was making me stressed - to a lovely new one....so don't think this is the cause). I don't lie awake during these awake periods, I tend to just wake then fall back to sleep within 10 minutes or so, the exception being this morning when I woke at 4:20am and simply couldn't get back to sleep. I make sure I have no caffeine in the second half of the day, am always hydrated and don't feel particularly stressed. The broken sleep is now really starting to get to me. Does anyone have any suggestions/ tips as to how I can sleep through the night? Getting to sleep in the first place isn't an issue either. Any help would be appreciated! 🙂

[SantiR]

Hello @cooleymax! I don't have an answer as to why that is happening to you. However, I can share my experience.

I used to had very bad sleep nights, waking up twice each night and feeling tired the next day. Also, not able to sleep early or the fall asleep at all! So, I discovered that stress and anxiety were the reasons why (I was going through a very hard period of change in my life). That resolved the difficulty to fall asleep.

I was still feeling tired and waking up in the middle of the night. So, I thought about my bed... I was using that bed for some years and the bed wasn't good anymore. So, I changed everything! I changed my mattress and changed pillows to more comfortable and modern ones and started to sleep.

Within a week I was feeling so much better. No back pain, no tired feelings, and I started to sleep better and now I rarely wake up in the middle of the night. I think I was just unconformable on my bed that made me wake up at night. 

There are other times now that I know I am under stress because of a college test or anything, those days I wake up in the middle of the night more often, but I'm sure it is because of the stress for that week, then everything just goes back to normal.

Hope this helps you out! I'm sure other users will reply as well and you will get some good help from this Community! 

[emili]

@cooleymax I think our sleep patterns just change over time. there doesn't have to be a cause behind it, it's just your body and mind going through a change. If you don't feel stressed, your mind isn't racing and your lifestyle is generally healthy, it's just a moment in time and it will pass. I remember sleeping like the dead, then it was more like in a coma and then slightly medicated to restless. Now I am somewhere between medicated and restless- I get a few hours of really good sleep and then the rest mediocre, but still sleep. Can't wait for the next phase 🙂