Two months in and I am still waking at four every morning

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Eight weeks now, more or less continuous. Fit is good, no marks, no soreness, nothing I would take to anyone about.

But I wake up between four and half past almost every night. Not in pain. It is just enough of a sensation to bring me up, and then I am awake for half an hour thinking about nothing in particular.

Everything I have read says this settles in the first fortnight. Mine has not, and I am starting to wonder whether it is going to and whether I am simply someone this does not work for.

Anyone gone past two months and had it eventually stop?

office_owen · Accepted Answer

Mine settled at about week ten and I had genuinely started to believe it would not. What changed was not the device, it was that I stopped lying there waiting for it. Once the waking became boring rather than an event I went back to sleep in under a minute instead of being up for forty.

rinse_and_dry · Answer

Eight weeks is on the long side but not remarkable. Before you decide it is permanent, check the ring rather than the cage. Night is when everything is at its largest and a ring that is fine at two in the afternoon can be the thing waking you at four.

nurse_by_trade · Answer

I would separate two different problems that get called the same thing. Waking because something hurts is a fit question and worth acting on. Waking because something is happening and then going straight back off is not a problem at all, it is just novel. You have described the second one, which is why I would leave the hardware alone for now.

safety_first_sam · Answer

Agreed on the split, and I would add the line where it stops being a preference. If you are waking with numbness, or waking with a mark that is still there at breakfast, that is not a settling-in period.

steady_keeper · Answer

Practical things that helped here, in the order they helped. Cooler room. Nothing to drink after nine. Sleeping on my side rather than my front, which took about a fortnight to become natural and did more than everything else combined.

long_haul_lena · Answer

The other half of this that nobody says out loud is that broken sleep makes you worse at everything, including at judging whether you want to keep going. Do not make any decisions about the arrangement while you are running on five hours. Fix the sleep first, then decide.

Two months in and I am still waking at four every morning

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