Disturbed Sleep Cycles, anyone else?

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7. Oh yeah

I try to stay up as late as I can, usually til midnight or one. I have my iPad in bed with Netflix. I use earbuds to listen to reruns of shows I know well, and they often will get me back to sleep, but not lately. I come downstairs and eat a peanut butter and banana sandwich or cream cheese and jam and fall asleep in the recliner until my husband wakes up at 5, his usual time (of course he goes to bed at 8).

Then I have breakfast, we watch recorded Colbert and Kimmel, I go back to bed and sleep until noon, and *still* fall asleep reading or watching TV.

It's awful. My husband and I are like ships that pass in the night.

Today I forced myself to go outside and walk the perimeter of my yard, and I plan to do it again this afternoon. My husband keeps his blood sugar in check by walking up and down the stairs every hour on the hour (has alarm on his phone). I think I need to be doing this, too. I'm going to try to tire myself out physically and see if that helps.

You are not alone in this misery. Part of it, of course, is anxiety, and I don't think any physical activity is going to help with that.