Among Friends

[AngelPuppy1]

I thought when I retired that I would stay up late and get up late.  Wrong!  I get so tired that a lot of evenings I will end up in bed at about 8:00.  Then, I tend to get up between 4 and 5.  However, my bed times vary as many evenings I stay up to watch something on t.v. and will end up going to bed around 10 -- which is late for me.  Of course, I can't go stright to bed.  I have to do my routine -- teeth, face, etc.  Then I read -  first my Bible and then a novel.  Then, hopefully, I finally conk out.  It's not an exact science that's for sure!  

[CalminHeart]

Before I retired, I was in bed around 9:30, up at 4, and at work about 5:00am. I was expected to work at least 60 hours a week and preferred doing extra hours in the mornings. 

I'm glad I wasn't expected to work as much when my kids were young but I was in positions that didn't require it then.

It's taken me years to stay up until 10pm and to sleep until 6am but that seems to be my normal now. 

I'm being monitored for pre-Alzheimer's and sleep is critical to fighting off an official diagnosis. I try to get 8 hours every night. 

[Rockycoast]

I usually go to bed between 9-10pm. I don't fall asleep quickly. But I want to be in my bed when I do, not the sofa. then there is the waking up during the night.  Awake around 4-5am.  From what my watch says I get around 5 hours of sleep a night. 

[frenchie]

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@matty liz wrote:

I have a hard time sleeping due to tinnitus.  I try to work with sound machine.  Have you posters found anything even over the counter that has helped

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I've had tinnitus for around thirty years. Constant noise. I take 25mg. generic Benedryl. Knocks me out within 30 min. Prescriptions did nothing.

[geezerette]

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@matty liz wrote:

I have a hard time sleeping due to tinnitus.  I try to work with sound machine.  Have you posters found anything even over the counter that has helped

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@matty liz 

I have found that 100-150mg of pycnogenol daily helps me.  It took some time to build up and it doesn't completely alleviate it but it dulls it a lot.  

[matty liz]

Frenchie and Geez, thank you.  Geez I esp saw your heart

[withaK]

I head in about 7 and read/wind down....I'm up and going at five

[lynnie61]

I can't seem to get off my work schedule, but I'm retired.  Go in around 10.  Up at 430-5.  Occasionally I can sleep until 6.  I rarely get 7 hours straight.  Sometimes 4, up an hour or more, then 2.5 more.  When I have a few nights of poor sleep, then I can get 7-8 on day 3 or 4.  

[chrystaltree]

I go to bed around 2am and get up at 8am. I have only needed 6 hours of sleep my entire adult life.

[qvcaddition]

I get ready for bed, all the necessary stuff, then sit and watch TV. Fall asleep aroung 9 on the couch until midnight usually, get up, let dog out then we both go to bed.  Now I'm wide awake and watch a movie on my ipad and fall asleep with glasses on and ear plugs in, (don't want to disturb dog, ha)until 6 in morning.

Seems no matter what time I sit on couch, I fall asleep, but not in bed right away.  If I went to bed at 9, I would be awake for awhile or wake up too early in the AM, like 3 or 4 in the morning.  My sleep pattern is terrible.

My dog is 18 yrs and I have to wake her up to go out and then bed. She use to wake me up when she was younger.  We are both very old.