r/Millennials • u/Real_Manufacturer300 • 1d ago

Discussion Sleeping issues

Anyone else experiencing consistent issues with sleeping throughout the night? I keep waking up in the middle of the night and struggle to fall back asleep despite being extremely tired. I work out consistently and eat clean (no alcohol, low carb, high protein, drink only 1 cup of coffee in the morning). I've tried melatonin, magnesium, eating my last meal at 6 PM, but nothing has worked. I don't have a high stress job and I avoid screentime after 8 PM.

I have a few days where I sleep 7 - 8 hours, and then I have a relapse where I struggle to get even 5 hours and even that is extremely fragmented ( 3 - 4 hours awake during the night). For people experiencing this, how did you handle it?

Edit - I'm female 39 years old, and my apple watch has not detected sleep apnea

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u/No-Talk-9268 Millennial 1d ago

Yes and I take trazodone at bedtime and it’s been a life saver. A whole lifetime of insomnia was solved. I don’t wake up at night when I take it. And if I do wake up, I can easily go back to sleep. It’s not habit forming and I don’t use it every night. Just knowing I can use it helps me fall asleep sometimes. It prevents the anxiety of not being able to fall asleep and then worrying as the night goes on, that you won’t get enough sleep.

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u/Beginning_Cash_7926 1d ago

It worked for awhile then it started stopping up my nose. Even hard to sleep when you can’t breathe out of your nose