Story of my life, & has been for years.

@Lilac-JadeCanada I find that growing older helps, you get a better perspective on how unimpotant many of those things are. But for now, a digital hug is sent.

@Fernapple Thank you.

Mine was made worse after 5 years of cancer treatments made the Fibromyalgia sleep issues a larger problem, on top of the fact I never was a good night time sleeper.

Now all I do is stick to routine, with the same night time getting ready for bed habits every night.... bath, tv off at 11 p.m. read, cuddle the kitties.....

@Lilac-JadeCanada Yes I never was a good sleeper either. In fact I was so bad as a baby , it almost cost me my life, since my mother, I am told, got so frustrated with me only sleeping two hours a nights, that she, being sleepless herself, tried to throw me out of the upstairs window. Fortunately I was rescued by my grandmother.

@Fernapple I am a born night person, & my parents blamed me for deliberately staying awake at night, got medicines shoved down my throat, & to this day, I can't stand a syrupy strawberry flavour. I was always made to go to bed at a ''decent hour'' of course but I used to stare at the ceiling & cry because I was wide awake & bored out of my mind. By the time I got to sleep, it was almost time to get up for school....it was awful!

@Lilac-JadeCanada Fortunately I was in the pre medication age. Though at two years of age the doctor did prescribe a small glass of Sherry before bed. Since he said that at that age I was ready for alchohol. It may seem a wild idea now, but it was the late fifties, and the parents said that it did help, it was certainly probably less dangerous than strong medication. While it seems I developed a slighly better sleep at the age of about five, so they stopped.

But I always wonder about the western habit of putting children to bed in the early evening, and then being surprised that they wake you up in the early morning ?

@Fernapple As I was raised moron, alcohol was against the bloody rules & was never thought of.
I was never a morning person at the best of times, so I wouldn't know.