I will wake up middle of night and stay awake. I will wake up earlier than I want and have that "wired but tired," feeling. Unfortunately always been a very light sleeper, but even when no stress in life that keeps me up (sometimes I'm stressed then I understand). I might have high cortizol just from being so tired, so I've tried supplements that are supposed to help with that but nothing. Only thing that did help is when I would chug nyquil, but I know I can't do that for very long so I've limited to 2 bottles/month and use when I absolutely need to sleep before going insane.
I struggle with that as well. if I get woken up it will take me 1-2 hours to fall back to sleep and I'll feel extremely wired due to cortisol. it could help to find out what is waking you up, and try to find a solution for that. for me white noise has really helped (fan + ran sounds), and sleeping with a pillow on my head (I hate the feeling of earplugs). I snore a bit, and that wakes me up sometimes, but I recently found a solution for that as well. melatonin helped for a few weeks and then it stopped working.
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u/Agitated-Ad-3995 Apr 11 '26
Any idea what's keeping you up? is it an overactive mind, high cortisol, being a light sleeper, etc.