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Sleep that broke and then partly mended

Started 7 October 2024 · 13 replies · 152 hearts · read 3.1k times

BirdieMargate, UK · 7 October 2024
1.8 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Sleep that broke and then partly mended

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

What has changed is small and I only noticed because I keep records, and I cannot decide whether small and consistent is worth raising.

I would like to compare notes rather than be advised, because the advice I have had has all been written for a simpler version of my situation.

I have had this diagnosis a long time and none of the general guidance quite fits, which is why I am asking here rather than in the wider circles.

I will report back after my specialist appointment, because there is not much written about this and I would like to add to it.

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#1

The stage I am at came with a lot of unsolicited opinion from other people, and this circle has been notably free of that.

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HannahSheffield, UK
#2

Something practical: I keep two columns in my notes so that each thing gets recorded against its own story rather than in one undifferentiated list.

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#3

No advice, only that you are not the only one who found this part hard.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

Stepping in to redirect towards the original question, which was narrower than the discussion has become and has not been answered yet.

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HalCambridge, UK
#5

I found this circle because I could not find anybody talking about both at once, and it is still the only place I have found where people do.

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#6

Picking up Nyree’s point rather than starting a new one.

The night sweats and the sleep disruption were the things that wore me down, and neither of them was the thing I had gone in about.

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#7

Ada has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

My records were spread across three services and putting them in one document myself made every appointment since more productive.

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HollyBath, UK
#8

What surprised me was how much of my long-standing experience of hunger changed, and how much of it I had assumed was simply my character.

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#9

I would gently say do not accept everything being attributed to your age. Mine was, twice, and both times something specific was found when somebody looked.

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FenellaCirencester, UK
#10

That is a kinder way of putting it than I have managed about myself.

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BettinaGraz, AT
#11

I would say the strength work is the thing I would not give up. Everything else has been adjusted at some point; that has been constant.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#12

Noting for later readers: when somebody updates after the appointment, that update tends to be the most useful part of the page and the part nobody thinks to write.

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MarnieAyr, UK
#13

What I would flag is that the timing of everything matters more than it used to. My whole week is arranged differently now and it works.

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