What protocol did your doctor give you on sleeping? None? In the hospital I was at, Ambiens were handed out like candy at bedtime. You'll have to ask your doctor if sleeping pill sleep actually counts as sleep and does the nightly brain cleanup task.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/05/6-easy-steps-to-falling-asleep-fast.php
Interesting that you are not supposed to watch a clock. My insomnia was getting pretty bad and it started making me anxious that I couldn't sleep. I'd "wake up" some mornings convinced that I'd gotten very little sleep. Then I got a projection clock so that I didn't have to haul myself up to look at the clock. Now, if I'm having trouble sleeping, I've come to realize that what feels like being awake for 20 minutes is actually just 1, etc. So the nights I'd been previously rolling around "all night," I probably wasn't.
ReplyDeleteBTW, they gave me Benadryl in the hospital when I couldn't sleep , then Ambien. Nothing worked for me.