Lonely Winter Nights
by Gail
I am sending out a prayer request to those of you out there who are thus minded. I have been having a terrible time trying to sleep and I am not sure why. As many of you may already know, I gravitate towards being a night owl, but I have not been able to sleep normally for the past month.
Lately, a typical cycle will be for me to spend several days in a row without any sleep except for a two to three hour nap I take in the mid-morning. I can’t seem to sleep at night at all during this part of the cycle and sometimes don’t even feel like taking the mid-morning nap! After several days of this, I feel exhausted and end up going to bed between seven and nine o’clock in the evening and sleeping until seven to ten o’clock the next morning. Most often I feel like I could continue sleeping all day.
So, it seems to be either feast of famine around here. I love those evenings when I am sleepy and I can curl up in bed with a good book and read for about thirty minutes before dropping off to sleep. I am really praying that, with God’s help, I will be able to go to bed around nine-thirty and read for about thirty minutes and go to sleep by ten. Then I would like to be able to wake up by seven.
In the meantime, I remain puzzled. And, to be honest, I don’t even sleep well when I do sleep. I toss and turn and feel overheated or achy all night. This is having a serious impact on my daily life. So, again, I ask for your prayers, advice and any Bible verses you think might be applicable.
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You have my prayers. I don’t have any advice, but I hope you can sleep soon. I go through occasional nights of not being able to sleep until around 3 in the morning. But I’ve never experienced anything like you describe.
God bless!
praying for you too.
Jenny in Ca
(I’m a nightowl too)
Have you had your thyroid checked? I have heard that sleeping/fatigue problems as well as the overheating can be caused by thyroid imbalances.
Gem – I have had my thyroid checked a couple of times and have had several friends who do have thyroid problems wonder if I don’t have one myself. No one in my family history has had thyroid problems, though and the tests keep coming back fine. Maybe I should ask to have it tested again next time I go in to see the doctor.
Otherwise, I have had some thoughts about it being menopause related since my mother went through menopause in her early forties and I am *cough* forty-one. I just don’t know what to expect from menopause. Since my mother is in the end stages of Alzheimer’s, I can’t ask her what it was like. I’m just so tired.