How much sleep did you have last night

[Davein]

I am interested to know how many hours sleep members managed to have last night. given our illnesses or conditions many of us seem to have disturbed sleep either by having to visit the toilet or woken by the effects of low blood sugars. Eight hours seems to be the given norm but how many of us achieved that last night? My 'normal' is six hours with maybe one interruption for toilet break due to medication. There are also the other usual reasons for sleep deprivation including anxiety, stress, worry and of course young children.
Last night I achieved my norm of six hours : what did you achieve?

 

[Lanny]

Zero last night, since I slept after dinner at 19:30 until 23:45. But, my sleeping patterns were all over the place when ill the past week. It will take maybe a week, from past experience, for my normal pattern to come back.

 

[Flo15]

Went to bed at 11pm, I am always asleep within a couple of minutes which annoys husand as he takes ages to fall asleep.It looks like I woke and did a scan on my libre at 4 am but can't remember doing it. Woke at 7.30 am . Sometimes though I am awake for 3 hours during the early hours which is due to stress and worry, but not so much recently.

 

[kentish maid]

My current sleep pattern seems to be go to sleep about 10.30, wake around 3am, read for an hour or so and drift off to sleep till the alarm goes off at 7am. Stopped having an alarm when O/H first retired, found the day starting later and later so went back to having a set time for getting up, put some structure back into the day

 

[grovesy]

I usually sleep all night.

 

[Kaylz]

About 4 hours, go to bed at 10pm but don't sleep as the neighbours make a noise usually get to sleep at 11:30 then always seem to wake at 3:30 and that's me tossing and turning till the alarm goes off at half 6 xx

 

[eggyg]

Where do I start? I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since 1984, no lie! I generally settle ok, go to bed about 10.30, read for up to an hour. But I always wake through the night, restless legs, too hot ( menopausal) Mr Eggy snoring, shoulders sore ( frozen and bursitis) hip sore ( bursitis again) back sore, Mr Eggy quiet and I think he has died, for those who don’t know he has had a total of 6 heart attacks, the last 4 very recently, Need on the loo, too hot, did I mention that? Mind starts whirring over ridiculous things and in the end I get up. Not so bad that I am now retired but I would get very anxious that I was going to be exhausted at work but I think I get used to it. Last night I woke at 2.30, went to loo, was too hot so threw covers off, then too cold, had restless legs, Mr Eggy got up for loo at 4.30 still hadn’t been asleep. Still awake at 5.30 dozed off woke at 7 and got up. It is a relief isometimes to get up. 😱

 

[Vince_UK]

6 hours for me

 

[mikeyB]

I’m usually 6-8 hours, though last winter that went up to 10 or 11. Not usually interrupted. I think my body wants to hibernate.🙂

 

[FM001]

6 hours last night, some nights can sleep for 7 or even 8 hours.

 

[jill55]

Usually 6 hours with the middle of the night toilet break which now happens due to diabetes though sleepless in Scotland just now as on calf midwife duty !

 

[SB2015]

Woke to Saturday Live this morning!! 10 hours sleep.
Usually get about 8/9 hours a night.
Making up for years of little sleep whilst working.
(There is always the inevitable visit in the night but back to sleep easily)

 

[Carolg]

Usually sleep quite well, especially before I go to bed, in recliner through rubbish tv. Bad night last night, but been away and travelling on Friday. Got the cold as well, so hoping for zzz today

 

[CosmicHedgehog]

I never have a problem sleeping quite the opposite actually lol,I average about 7 hours, but i could probably do with more. Kids and late nights don't mix well! I only got 6 hours last night though due to a stubborn 3am hypo 🙄 and my neighbour waking me up at some ungodly hour this morning to tell me my TV aerial had fallen off the roof and was dangling by its wire over his fence lol... so much for that saturday morning lye in! 🙄

 

[Amigo]

Where do I start? I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since 1984, no lie! I generally settle ok, go to bed about 10.30, read for up to an hour. But I always wake through the night, restless legs, too hot ( menopausal) Mr Eggy snoring, shoulders sore ( frozen and bursitis) hip sore ( bursitis again) back sore, Mr Eggy quiet and I think he has died, for those who don’t know he has had a total of 6 heart attacks, the last 4 very recently, Need on the loo, too hot, did I mention that? Mind starts whirring over ridiculous things and in the end I get up. Not so bad that I am now retired but I would get very anxious that I was going to be exhausted at work but I think I get used to it. Last night I woke at 2.30, went to loo, was too hot so threw covers off, then too cold, had restless legs, Mr Eggy got up for loo at 4.30 still hadn’t been asleep. Still awake at 5.30 dozed off woke at 7 and got up. It is a relief isometimes to get up. 😱

I thought I’d written that eggy! Mirrors my experience even with the shoulder pain except I’m past the menopausal stage and mine is due to ‘burning blood syndrome’ caused by errant cytokine activity with the leukaemia. I was tempted to take an ice cold shower at 3am.
I’m also up and down to the loo and my brain always insists on having torturous conversations with me during the night. Oh and dreadful cramp every night.
I usually end up having my best sleep when it’s time I should be up! 🙄

 

[Brando77]

6-7hrs a night, I have an energy consuming job and work long hours so I'm always cream crackered.

 

[Mark Parrott]

I got to bed at 10pm & watch telly for an hour. Usually takes me about half an hour to get off to sleep on a good night. Often wake up a couple of times in the night for no reason, sometimes for a loo break. Start getting disturbed by the cats around 5AM & usually get up around 6.30AM. On a bad night I can wake every hour! Starting to sleep a lot better since Mrs P got her CPAP machine. No more earplugs for me.🙂

 

[trophywench]

Getting up for the loo is something I've had to do for a very long time and I don't really think it's much to do with diabetes - I think it's simply anno domini together with how much we drink in the evening, cos I haven't noticed very much difference in volume or flow - ie no wonder I wanted a wee, my bladder was obviously FULL.

So far I've not been on any medication that caused it.

I still sleep more than OK, except some nights I simply cannot drop off for love nor money although my OH swears I do. Maybe I don't get into a deep sleep until much later, haven't a clue. However when it's time to get up I can compete with Rip van Winkle and have always been prone to that since childhood.I have observed over the decades, starting with my parents and in-laws - that generally we seem to need less sleep as we age so whilst 8 hours was no prob when younger, 6 or less seemed to become the norm in later life.

I look forward to that cos I spend half my life sleeping!

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I work nights so my body clock is all over the place. I worked last night and have had 5 hours so far today and will try and get a couple more hours later, before my shift tonight. I sleep better in the day than I do at night 🙄

 

[Jeandp]

I went to bed, and shortly after to sleep, at 8.30pm. I slept till 12.30 when I was woken up by my shoulder pain, due to a torn tendon. I was awake till at least 3.30am trying to get comfortable. Then woke at 6.30am, late for me. So 7 hours in total.

I am not usually awake that long in the middle of the night and normally get up earlier, 4am is not unusual for me. My shoulder doesn't hurt so much when I am sitting.