How much do you guys sleep? (Page 3)

I get about 6-6.5 Sunday-Thursday and I might be able to bump that to 7-7.5 on Friday and Saturday.  I'd say this isn't enough for me, but it is what it is.  When I'm in full on training mode working out 10-15 hours a week it gets real tough.

Sleep?  What's that????

Bed by 10:30.

Alarm at 5:00 AM.  (earlier if I'm training for a long race)

In between is at least 2 wake up calls by my 5 year old. 

I've had two sleep studies done, found out I have sleep apnea so I've been using a CPAP for the past year and a half.  I hate the thing so it's a struggle to fall asleep with it.  I take meds to fall asleep and I could be dead tired and once the lights go out I'm wide awake...I'd say the soonest I can fall asleep is within one hour of lights out...

In bed lights out by 9:30-10:00 at the latest during the week, morning swims 3x per week, up at 5:00am... Routinely I'll wake up between 3:30-4:30am and be finally back to sleep when my alarm goes off at 5:00am...

Sleep is the most messed up part of my life... 

In bed lights out by 9:30-10:00 at the latest during the week, morning swims 3x per week, up at 5:00am... Routinely I'll wake up between 3:30-4:30am and be finally back to sleep when my alarm goes off at 5:00am...

Sleep is the most messed up part of my life... 

In bed lights out by 9:30-10:00 at the latest during the week, morning swims 3x per week, up at 5:00am... Routinely I'll wake up between 3:30-4:30am and be finally back to sleep when my alarm goes off at 5:00am...

Sleep is the most messed up part of my life... 

My sleep studies were at a clinic where I was hooked up to monitors, all over my head, chest and back.  I then had a sleep technician monitoring me throughout the night and it was videotaped.  I can't remember the # of times per hour I stopped breathing but it was significant enough the Dr.'s said I needed to get on a CPAP right away..

Ambien does not help me fall asleep, I'm told it should help me to stay asleep however that was never a problem even before the CPAP - staying asleep.  My problem has always been falling asleep...

Pre- CPAP the reasons vary.  Sometimes reprocessing the day, other times thinking about tomorrow etc... However since the CPAP it's been more about calming down and breathing relaxed...

I'm a natural mouth breather so breathing through my nose isn't easy... Add in a deviated septum and the occasional cold etc., and I feel like I'm asphyxiating at times..

I know sleep apnea is bad so I keep up with the CPAP but some nights are definitely rough starting out...

I honestly think the apnea thing is hugely overdiagnosed, not that I'd go off CPAP for you. 

I too got the same diagnosis, of 'waking up 60 times in an hour' during REM, and yes I use a CPAP now as well, but it honestly hasn't made a  huge improvement in my quality of sleep or duration of sleep. There are some for whom CPAP  for sure helps, but I'm skeptical it's so effective in people with normal necks and normal BMIs like myself that don't at all fit the typical apneic profile.

But yes, I still use the darn thing, every night.

I'm wondering the same thing.  I'm fit, and not even close to obese although my BMI is higher because of muscle mass.

I have some other medical stuff going on and one of the Dr.'s has requested my sleep study results as he openly questions how they arrived at sleep apnea.  He said something about whether it was organic ???  

I'm in next on the 12th and am quite interested to hear his review.