My CHs come during the day, and rarely late in the evening but NEVER do they wake me at night.

However, in the last few nights, I've woken up pretty much spot on 3am each night. Not with a headache, just woken up. I haven't been consistent with my bedtime, there is nothing particularly routine about any part of my day (I'm shocking with schedules).

Do you think it means anything???

It would be interesting to time your 3AM wakeups with completion of a REM cycle...CHs love REM (or hate depending upon your point of view) REM sleep. And as you'll discover, the Beast is a shapeshifter. It will morph just to plague you. So, sleep. But if you begin to suspect the Beast is lurking around the edges of your dreams, and kickin' you in the side around 3AM, be prepared to hit it hard with O2 at the first sign. I've never noticed O2 as a sleep inhibitor, although the pain of an attack sure can be. Be prepared, and may this moment pass from you. Blessings. lance

Hi Mel
Have you tried Melatonin it may help in getting you through the night.
I am chronic & just going through a very low hit cycle but have dealt with sleep deprivation now since about 2005; I toodle of to bed usually around 9-9:30pm (yea I know I'm getting old )& will usually wake again for a tutty break around 11:00 pm, go back to sleep until 1:30-2:00am & that's it wide awake for the rest of the night, I've had to learn how to completely relax simply to rest the body & not be tuckered out the next day.

Natural Melatonin is produced in the pineal gland on orders from the hypothalamus starting at low doses & building up so that sound sleep occurs & gradually tapering of when we've had enough sleep; given that we have wonky hypothalamus's it only stands to reason that the pineal gland may chuck a wobbly as well & not produce the melatonin as would normally happen, that's where Melatonin sups may help you.
What I have written above may not be purely & technically correct but is only to give you an idea of how it works.
Unfortunately Melatonin doesn't work for me, tried it at various doses for no luck but that's the nature of the beast we battle with, but the pills aren't a waste of money as my wife now uses them instead of taking a relaxer to go to sleep.

Cheers
Barry

Even when I am not in cycle, I wake up 1 1/2 hours after I go to sleep.  This is when my first night attack normally happens when I am in cycle.  Cycle or not, I just can't sleep through that first REM cycle.

Batch, that's very funny. We get exposed to so much of the American lingo that we just know what it means, but I know how confusing some of our sayings are to non-Aussies. We even confuse ourselves sometimes  Or maybe it's just me that gets confused. I'm confused easily.

Barry_T_Coles wrote on Feb 25^th, 2011 at 8:28pm:


It's the same over this side of the ditch (Tasman Sea) with us Kiwis (New Zealanders) using a lot of similar expressions to those used in Oz (Australia).

And with the amazing stuff that Batch has done, he is an honorary Kiwi too (joining the race to adopt him).

Melby29 wrote on Feb 25^th, 2011 at 10:45pm:


You can keep Russell Crowe!

There is a great video on YouTube - Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or

Both are really well done, especially the second. But please don't get any ideas, we like not being part of Australia!