A Work at Home Mom’s Blog

My sleep habits have become extremely erratic lately. For instance, this past Saturday night, I had severe insomnia. I couldn’t go to sleep, and finally got up and watched some TV at 2:30 AM. I went back to bed a couple of hours later, and it still took me over an hour to get to sleep. I kept waking up after that, and ended up getting up much earlier than usual for a Sunday because I finally gave up on getting a decent amount of sleep.

Sunday night I had trouble sleeping, but not quite as bad as Saturday night. Monday night I slept like a normal person. And last night, I slept like a baby. I got up this morning to put Pumpkin on the bus and went back to bed. I would wake up every couple of hours, decide that it was time to get up, and fall right back asleep. I finally forced myself to stay awake long enough to drag my carcass out of bed shortly after noon, but I’ve been sleepy ever since.

I don’t know what’s causing all this. It’s not like I’ve been experimenting to find weight loss pills that work and therefore having major swings in my energy level. I’m assuming that it has something to do with my prescription medications. I had sleep issues before I started with them, but back then it was mostly on the oversleeping end of the spectrum. I had occasional insomnia, but not these insane swings between the two.

It would be nice to be able to find a happy medium on this. Just like most of the rest of my life.