How to break the early morning wake up cycle?
Have had sleeping issues / insomnia the last 12 years. It was really really bad in the beginning and I got it under control for year’s with the assistance of partial dose of Ambien and Seroquel.
A little over 2 years ago I suffered a mTBI (brain injury) from slamming my head directly on the ground when mountain biking with friends. A few small brain bleeds and really really bad concussion that caused autonomic dysfunction everything from heart rate variability to temperature control, digestive issues, and many more debilitating symptoms. One of the main ones was relentless insomnia again even with taking meds.
I finally got 90% better over time and also sleep improved to where I was getting 7+ hours every night.
A little over a month ago I had a bad flu with fever and a horrible crushing pressure headache which then re inflamed a lot of my original issues from my brain injury. Most of those have subsided but once again I’m stuck with crappy sleep averaging from 3-5 hours a few nights I did manage 6-7 but over all not great.
This entire week I’ve been going to bed 11pm and waking up 2:30 like on the dot.
How do I break this? Any tricks? Or is it just suffer until I heal again? I hate this, just looking for any insight or reassurance.
Thx 🙏