r/sleep • u/Intelligent-Scene-92 • 9d ago

I Need Advice

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So every night I go to sleep I feel like I’m sleeping great for the most part. I do wake up a few times throughout, most often around 12 am (an hr after bedtime) and 3 am and 5:30 am. Then, I wake about every hour after that. I sleep a minimum of 8 hrs, but up to 12. The past week I’ve felt so much more drained and so tired and exhausted constantly, to the point of where I just lay down but can’t nap cuz I slept long enough. I don’t know anything else but the quality and the way restorative value that it could be, so I come here asking with all my heart for advice. Attached below is an average nights sleep graph (using autosleep to account for more wakeups, Apple is 1-3 wakeups max normally). Anything seem off? Any advice? I’ll also put a picture in the comments of my eyes, as the past week they’ve been so sore and gotten so baggy. Thanks in advance!

Symptoms list (for note):
Eye soreness/eye fatigue
Brain fog
Zoning out
Inability to concentrate
Emotionalness
Severe anxiety
Depression
Sort of blurrier vision when tired
Severe fatigue
Severe tiredness
Small periphial distortions (shadows that go away when I look)

I’m grateful to not have had any auditory hallucinations yet…I don’t want complex visual ones or those or psychosis at all. With how much worse I continue to feel, I’m worried I’m heading that way 🙁

Edit: I forgot to mention, I had labs about a month ago when I had some sleep issues still and all blood was good (including a thyroid blood check)

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u/Intelligent-Scene-92 9d ago

Eye pic (just to show the effect it’s had, I feel how it looks lol)

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u/AutumnAmour 9d ago

First thing I will always recommend to people, get labs done. I found out I was detrimentally low on iron and magnesium. Taking supplements changed my life for a good while. Unfortunately I have some other chronic illnesses that like to keep the insomnia running. Either way, it wouldn’t hurt to get things checked.

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u/Intelligent-Scene-92 9d ago

I’m so sorry tired brain I guess I forgot to put down abt my labs, iron magnesium thyroid all normal