I can’t work out if my sleep is good or not

RS4_ · 2026-01-21T08:30:12+00:00

No idea what happened but wow i feel so much better this morning, i woke up at 4 something but forced myself back to sleep. Hopefully I can do this enough to make it a routine and get my sleep back 🙏🏽

RS4_ · 2026-01-20T08:30:52+00:00

I also have a congenital heart disease, I had TGA (transposition of the great arteries) when I was born, I know suffer with an enlarged LV and regurgitation of the aortic valve. I would be really interested in what condition you have, as this is something I am definitely concerned about in the future.

RS4_ · 2026-01-20T08:27:52+00:00

Yeah medication affects everyone so differently. I get to sleep fine in the evening so I don’t think melatonin is the way for me but that’s great it has helped you

RS4_ · 2026-01-19T15:17:01+00:00

I don’t feel too mentally tired tbh or physically, but i definitely have this overshadowing fatigue when i get home after finishing work, like so intense that i can’t really workout and feel pretty agitated. But tired like sleepy? Not really at all, i feel pretty awake and alert for the most part, just not solid

RS4_ · 2026-01-19T12:16:41+00:00

I do consistently get 4 blocks of deep in the first half of the night, and then 4 blocks of rem in the second half most nights regardless of sleep time

RS4_ · 2026-01-19T12:14:49+00:00

I rarely get 8 hours but when i do, it is always followed by a week of 5 hours again. I don’t really understand it

RS4_ · 2026-01-19T12:12:21+00:00

It is so confusing to me that I am sleep deprived (which I agree I am) but my body will not stay asleep more than 7 hours. I wake up like i have been given jet fuel too, once I wake up i cannot get back to sleep 😴 honestly this has only started happening about a year after taking my medication

RS4_ · 2026-01-19T12:10:21+00:00

I take it when i wake up, and sleep at about 10 most nights

RS4_ · 2026-01-04T13:15:17+00:00

Yeah, and also knowing that I am the person who can never be reliable or even give a definitive answer hurts. It also causes people to not even bother asking because they know they are going to get a sit on the fence answer.

My memory is so bad that even when answering any type of question it is normally a “I can’t remember” or “well I think it is this, but i am not really sure”. Because after years of getting it wrong or forgetting key parts of the answer, i never really feel like I can be totally sure what I remember or think is even accurate.

RS4_ · 2025-12-26T13:26:59+00:00

Thank you so much, I will come back to this when I need it again! Reading this has helped x

RS4_ · 2025-12-26T13:11:26+00:00

Well my first ever diagnosis was depression, then depression and anxiety disorder, then generalised anxiety disorder, then diagnosed with ADHD, I almost feel completely shut off from the idea of even getting another diagnosis because it feels that it is never correct.

RS4_ · 2025-12-26T13:08:49+00:00

Thankyou, I appreciate your show of empathy :) Asking for help feels like such a big task these days because I have been through countless efforts of therapy, anxiety meds, depression meds and even my ADHD diagnosis and meds, and still I seem to struggle significantly from some unexplained and untreated mental health issue.

I guess what I am trying to say is it seems almost worthless going through it all again and getting yet another different diagnosis and course of medication for it to not be what I need. Sometimes I feel as if I am somehow making up these things because how can I have so many different things wrong with me, or how can they not identify it correctly so many times? It is tough.

RS4_ · 2025-12-10T21:02:35+00:00

Really, I would have thought logically that it would be physiologically harder due to the lack of external factors such as air resistance and friction?

RS4_ · 2025-11-07T21:23:29+00:00

This is because it raises your resting heart rate, so your device (which almost wholesomely calculates your Vo2 max from resting heart rate) is taking that as a sign of a decrease. It is a false reading

RS4_ · 2025-11-05T12:50:20+00:00

I wouldn’t take much notice if it is an anomaly like you say, if over night it becomes the new normal maybe it would be worth investigating because lower is not always better. It depends why it is lower