#sleep challenges

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FMLS90 Week 7 Day 41 - Tuesday 10 February 2015

Have you had any challenges with sleeping? How have you dealt with them?

I'm not sure how much I will participate in this week's daily posts because my sleep is dysfunctional at the moment due to unresolved nightly muscle spasms resulting in back pain. My problem is with my back, not with sleeping. Sleep deprivation is just a side-effect of the back problem. The thing is, there's Mari's sleep pre-July 2014, and Mari's sleep post-July 2015 and it's all terribly frustrating.

Pre-July 2014: No probs sleeping; aimed to get eight hours per night but was fine with seven. Went through bouts of going to bed a bit later than was good for me but no great impact and as I said, never any problems falling asleep. Those were the days.

Post-July 2014: I cannot lay horizontal for more than four hours at a time without my back muscles locking up and causing a band of painful rigidity around my mid-back, taking in T6/7 area, ribs and diaphragm. Sometimes, I can squeeze out an additional hour of dozing once I've been woken up but ultimately, the only thing that will settle it is to get up, move around, then sit for half an hour with a hot pack. I am coping by split-sleeping: sleeping four hours at night and 1-2 hours in the afternoon. It's not ideal. I'm experiencing cumulative fatigue and if I can't squeeze in that afternoon nap I'm wrecked.

How am I dealing with it? Continuing to explore solutions to the cause (I have yet another referral in hand), establishing a split-sleep pattern so I can catch up with sleep in the afternoon, just getting on with life and trying not to let it get me down.

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