Unless I'm sick, 5 1/2-6 hours of sleep a night without fail. I can function with less, but I'm incapable of sleeping for longer. I don't even need to set an alarm, just be within sight of a window. When daylight arrives, I either get up or toss and turn until I get up. Generally, I sleep the night through unless the wife nudges me to take one or both of the beagles out.

At about 8:30PM - 9:00PM I take two (2) Advil PM and one (1) Lipitor. At about 10:30PM I am tired enough to go to bed. Wake around 6 or 6:30AM. I can not get a decent nights sleep without the Advil PM.

I am fortunate in that most nights I sleep pretty well. I have never been one to fall asleep quickly, but I’m used to that. Maybe half the nights I sleep all the way through until morning. The other half, I get up once to pee, somewhere between 3:00-4:00. If that happens, once again, I usually toss and turn for quite awhile before falling back asleep.

If you look at the bedsheet in the morning, my side is all wrinkled up. My wife sleeps the sleep of the dead, her side just shows she was there. I have no idea if the tossing and turning is just me trying to fall asleep, or if I do that throughout the night. Generally though I feel well rested.

I’m grateful that I don’t have the enlarged prostate problems that some of you have to deal with. One of my brothers gets up 6 times or more a night. I asked him one time if there was a chance that instead of waking up because he has to pee, if he might instead just be waking up because of some other issue, and because he’s awake—has to get up and pee. I don’t know.

I have chronic acid reflux. I can’t eat less than 3 hours before bed, or I can’t sleep. I also need to knock off alcohol well before bedtime. I feel like there is a connection with falling asleep and getting up at night if I drink too much (and that can be just 3 drinks instead of two).

I’ll add that we bought a new bed a few months ago; our first king. It’s a great bed and we both sleep better in it.

I sleep in 3-5hour spurts, interrupted once at night for bathroom visit. I also take 2-4hour naps during the day.

I've been taking Hytrin (terazosin) for at least 25 years to fight the nightly bathroom interruptions, and it works pretty well.

flashguy

I've always been a night owl. All through my school years, I had extreme trouble going to bed before 11 pm and waking up before 7 am. I would wake up a few times during the night. I think I inherited it from Dad. He always had what he called insomnia. He would be awake in the wee hours reading. He felt it was wrong to be up at night, even when we was retired when there was no job to report to. I just assumed when I became an adult I would eventually have to cave to that day-person schedule like the rest of society mandated that "normal" people do.

I'm 51 and have done a pretty good job of avoiding that my whole life. I work from 3:30 to 11:30 pm mostly and then stay up to about 3 or 4 am. Then I fall asleep in about 3 minutes and then sleep soundly until 9 or 10. That seems to suit me perfectly. I practically never wake up during (the rest of) the night.

I go to sleep quickly and rest for six hours and wake up. After that I only sleep in three hour intervals.

The dreams are crazy and vivid. I usually remember the whole thing and have frequently returned to the same dream the next night.

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Tell me about your sleep patterns/habits

No patterns. When I'm sleepy, I'll sleep. When I'm not, I won't.

54 yrs old, 2 years keto, going primarily carnivore now. Currently eating lunch at 12:30 at work and try to finish dinner by 7:00-7:30p. So, at least 2 hours before going to bed at 10-10:30. Usually up once around 3am to pee. very little (if any) alcohol and try to limit caffeine (espresso) after 5pm. Generally good sleep with about half time in deep cycle according to fitbit. Yep, pretty boring but boring is highly under-rated.

Can i ask the gentleman with prostate related nightly wake ups a question or three ?

When you do wake up to urinate, is a meaningful session ?

Or more like something that really could have waited ?

Do you wake up and try to fight to go back to bed or, just go with the flow, so say it ?

I find that the times i wake up, about every 2-3 hours, it isn't a meaningful session, and something that could have waited.

Before all this started a few months ago, i would maybe wake up once a night to urinate, and than a rather typical morning wake up "hey i gotta go" session.

It seemed to get worse when my shoulder issues got worse. As i mentioned, i wake up nightly to change positions and crack/stretch my right shoulder.

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Originally posted by Jman78:
I find that the times i wake up, about every 2-3 hours, it isn't a meaningful session, and something that could have waited.

Another question I have about people who get up frequently: habit and conditioning when waking up for other reasons, or actual need?

Age 63. I am a night person. Like to be up late watching old movies or reading. Go to bed between 2AM and 4AM nightly. Get up around 10 or 11AM. Sleep straight through most nights.

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Originally posted by dry-fly:
I have no idea what it’s like to sleep through the whole night...

get Dr. Matthew Walker's 2017 book from the library: Why We Sleep. it will explain methods of obtaining the required 7-9 hours your brain needs. it's only recently that we've learned why we sleep. you list many of the items to get you there: blue light, electronics, darkness, temperature - but there's also a few other tweaks that could get you there. THE best book on sleep.

these may help in the interim:

Dr. Matthew Walker on Sleep for Enhancing Learning, Creativity, Immunity, and Glymphatic System 2-28-2019

#47 – Matthew Walker, Ph.D., on sleep – Part I of III: Dangers of poor sleep, Alzheimer’s risk, mental health, memory consolidation, and more

part 2

part 3

I too have suffered from irregular sleep all my life. Back in '97 I was diagnosed with Apnia but although a CPAP provides comfort it still doesn't help with the insomnia or whatever.

Couple quick illustrations. Back in my army days the second to the last fire watchstander was ordered to enter the sergeants room in the old WWII barracks and grab my mattress and toss me on the floor thus ensuring I'd make morningh formation. Same drill as a young naval officer aboard ship. I had the stewards come into my room to make sure I was awake. This all as a result of tossing and turning unable to sleep or sleeping in fits such that in the morning I was all but non-functional. As a civilian, there were times I'd head into the office at 1 or 2am and "camp out" to ensure I'd be there when the work day started. Three alarms including an "earthquake" unit too often failed to rouse me from a bad night.

That pattern continues in my retirement exacerbated by some meds I'm on and old age prostrate issues. Some days I'm up at 4:30am and others I'm sleeping until mid-afternoon. Oh well....

Thank you for that f2, I’ll check it out

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Originally posted by f2:

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Originally posted by dry-fly:
I have no idea what it’s like to sleep through the whole night...

get Dr. Matthew Walker's 2017 book from the library: Why We Sleep. it will explain methods of obtaining the required 7-9 hours your brain needs. it's only recently that we've learned why we sleep. you list many of the items to get you there: blue light, electronics, darkness, temperature - but there's also a few other tweaks that could get you there. THE best book on sleep.

these may help in the interim:

Dr. Matthew Walker on Sleep for Enhancing Learning, Creativity, Immunity, and Glymphatic System 2-28-2019

#47 – Matthew Walker, Ph.D., on sleep – Part I of III: Dangers of poor sleep, Alzheimer’s risk, mental health, memory consolidation, and more

part 2

part 3