Thelma-Louise

Do you cat nap during the day or know why you are waking up so often so often during the night? If not, you should probably go to a sleep study to see if you have sleep apnea. They require a prescription from your dr and are usually done in hospitals as an overnight stay and generally covered by med ins. Sleep apnea or chronic interrupted sleep prohibits the body from getting the REM sleep it needs to restore itself which explains the chronic fatigue or tiredness and inability to wake in the morning. There are generally 2 types of sleep apnea - upstructive and non-obstructive and once they determine if you have it and which one they treat it accordingly with either a snore guard or dental splint, a airway machine used while you sleep or surgery to remove the uvula. My sister went recently and it turned out the meds she was taking for some chest pain lowered her heart rate and blood pressure too much and once she switched meds it stopped. And her dr kept telling her it wasn't due to the med - the study definitley helped determine what was going on. The only real inconvenience is that you have to spend one night in a strange bed with wires attached to you but she brought her own pillow and pjs, slippers, robe, etc., watched tv and was given breakfast the next morning. You need from 6 to 8 hrs undisturbed or sound sleep for your body to feel rested. If you not napping during the day which would also account for your inability to sleep straight through the night - you might try catching a few winks during the day if you can to see if you start feeling better - if you do then you kind of know this is a sleep problem and then go for the study to see what is happening at night that you are not aware of. Of course you can also try many of the sleep inducing OTC products to see if that helps as well.