Waking up suddenly from a deep sleep full#

I deflate, and compression socks don’t help! The same happens sometimes if I stand up too long, but different (incoordination, forgiveness, heart fluttering). Intellectually, I go, wow, why am I stuck thinking about this? The answer to that more often than not is: you’ve been sitting at your desk too long (I.e.an hour) and need to get up and get the blood pumping again But I do have periods (literally, in every cycle) where I feel like something else is controlling my thoughts. I enjoy a wide range of activities, foods, the company of others and I exercise every day. Despite the low BP, I’m a pretty UP person, mentally.

Waking up suddenly from a deep sleep full#

Now home and back at my 2 jobs and full time study alone in my house and thousands of kms from my family, my mind is back to it’s old tricks. I was fairly sure I slept somewhat like that when I was there, but one of those nights was aided by Zopiclone, to try to beat jetlag. I recently came home from an overseas trip and for a few days slept like that. What I do know is: if I get 6+ hours sleep, I feel like a whole new person. Sometimes exercise before bed helps, as well as in the morning, but I don’t have enough info about that. I have a much better sleep schedule now and am strict about when I work until. That said, the issue remains: I keep waking up with stressed out thoughts at 4.30, after getting to bed and sleep at 11.30, or 10.30 to 3.30 etc. Obviously, that is a huge payoff and I think that Trazedone was probably never appropriate for someone with such low BP. Since stopping the drug, my sleep is essentially the same, but my blood pressure (which is naturally around 90/60 in the morning) has recovered somewhat and I don’t feel deflated to the point of collapse come midday or 1pm, anymore. The day that was eventually governing my whole life.

Of late, I’m not using a prescribed sleep aid after 1 year of 50mg Trazedone use didn’t actually help break the 3.5-4.5 issue and I was waking with very vivid distressing dreams, and had very low blood pressure throughout I do tend to sleep on my side, but this may just be habit. I’m only 36 years old, but haven’t slept more than 4.5 hours at a time for years.