How Early Do You Wake Up

[Buteo]

LOL
grandma, I know how ya feel.
I used to be able to sleep for 8-12 hours.
That was before this IBS started....

Now?
If I'm lucky, the pains let me get to sleep somewhere between 3-5AM...
then the cramps wake me up again in 4 hours (5 hours if I've been given a tranq).

Nothing wakes ya up faster than pain.
(It's pretty hard to greet the day with a smile when it feels like your "alarm clock" just jammed a spear into your guts and straight through the inside of left hip.)

[grandma]

I feel for ya. I also have IBS along with my fibro., arthritis, diverticulitis, nerve damage & herniated disks.

I take meds. for sleep, pain, muscle spazms...

You would think I would sleep well. Only get 3-5 hrs.

[Quito's Qage]

I'm up around 2 am six days a week, since I start work at 4 am. Been doing this for several years now so I'm pretty used to it. Night life=zero. Usually in bed by 8 pm. On Sundays I usually sleep in until 4 or 5 am and end up feeling like crap.

[CrazyBirdLady]

6 a.m. most weekdays, though the snooze button on the alram gets hit several times. If chicks are being handfed, they will wake us up betwen 4:30 and 6 a.m. peeping. On weekends, maybe 7 a.m., but last weekend I got up, took care of the birds, got fruits and veggies dispersed and lay back down and took an hour nap. We've been going tob ed between 11:00-12:30 and I'm getting too old for this crap. I fall asleep on the way home from work everyday (I take the public transportation here in PDX) and have a 15 minute power nap to carry me through.

[CrazyBirdLady]

6 a.m. most weekdays, though the snooze button on the alram gets hit several times. If chicks are being handfed, they will wake us up betwen 4:30 and 6 a.m. peeping. On weekends, maybe 7 a.m., but last weekend I got up, took care of the birds, got fruits and veggies dispersed and lay back down and took an hour nap. We've been going tob ed between 11:00-12:30 and I'm getting too old for this crap. I fall asleep on the way home from work everyday (I take the public transportation here in PDX) and have a 15 minute power nap to carry me through.

[bb100]

Boy you people are all "early birds"....(lol)! I'm a slug and can't be bothered to get up any earlier than 7:30am ever. Of couse, it helps to be located only a 10minute walking distance to work. I think my slug persona rubbed off on my birds they can't be bothered to wake up before 7:30am either. My CAG hears the birdies outside chattering and opens one sleepy eye with a look of like "shut-up"...

[Irish]

Up at 5:30 am, bedtime somewhere between 10 and 11:30 pm.

I'll also sneak in a nap when I feel like it--I just give the boys lunch, put them in their cages, and they take a nap (or do something quiet while watching HGTV), too :-).

[grandma]

HGTV, my favorite show.

[candi4me]

Grandma I also have Fibromyalgia and Sjrogrens syndrom(pronounced show-grins). I understand about the not sleeping thing but My Dr has put me on an antidepressent that helps me sleep.
Candy

[candi4me]

Grandma you and I have alot of the same issues. Dave gets up around3:30 am -4;00 am for work. he doesn't sleep in on weekends either. usually he is up no later than 6am.
Candy