I stopped working when I was 57 and had worked 27 companies during those years, withing all the time zones to start. I have trained myself to go to sleep at anytime I lay down in bed to go to sleep.

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I used to kind of have a sleep pattern where everyday I had a seizure I would wake up about 4 hours early the next morning and not be able to fall back asleep. It got to where every morning I woke up early I would tell my mom “I had a seizure yesterday didn’t I?” The answer was always yes.

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Well early on i was a little kid and went to bed early. When I got to teen years it was 10pm lights out. Once I was married I had to be at work at 8 so I was in bed by 10. After I had my first grand mal and got on the final winner in the drug parade, I went to bed at 8:30 - 9 after making sure all kids had fallen asleep. I had to be driven to work. After about 6 months of seizure free on Tegretol I got to drive again but still slept longer at night. When my seizures git really bad in my 40s I slept a lot and it was I think mostly from the different meds they were putting me on. When I was awake I was a zombie with quite a few. It was a rough couple of years till I got my VNS and anew good combo of meds. But my memory was gone and I was not me anymore. I still slept at night 9 till what ever time to get the kids up for school. Ialso napped in the day. We got past that and learned to live with my life. But as long as we had kids at home I went to bed at a decent time except Saturday nights we would play cards with friends and stay up way too late. That made it interesting to get every one up and out the door for Sunday school. Once we were empty nesters I went to bed according to hubbys work schedule all I remember is he worked 4 days on 4days off so we really enjoyed our 4 days. When my daughter was going to have twins and had a rambunctious 3 yr old running around we had them move in with us. We watched Stargate SG1 on the sci-fi change back then and as soon as the music for it started Tyler would show up and snuggle in with his Grandpa for the show. It was too cute. He sat there the whole hour! We were going to bed early most nights only to wake up in the morning with an extra body sleeping between us. When the twins arrived I helped her with feeding 24 hrs a day because they both demanded food at the same time. So I did nap during the day when they napped.
As life moved on and we were empty nesters once again we still slept by Hubby's work schedule. Once he was retired we stayed up later and later. I try now to be in bed at 11 bu it doesn't always work, before long it's 12 or 1 or 2 or 3. Problem is hubby has insomnia so if I don't pay attention I'm up with him. If he comes to bed with me he lays there awake forever. So things are a bit out of kilter around here. And than I sleep 4-6 hours during the day and evening.

With my FM in a bad flare up I have both insomnia and days where I’m sleeping 18 hrs straight. My Dr wants me to sleep 10 hrs a night but I’m not getting anywhere near that. Last night I finally fell asleep at 3am and was up at my normal time of 5 am. Then the afternoon nap that lasted for 3 hrs. So my sleep schedule has never really improved or changed. When younger I would stay awake until at least 11 pm and up at 5 to start my nanny job till time to go to school, come back and go straight back to work and stay there anywhere up till 3 am, walk home and start over again the next day. And now I just go with the flow- if I’m tired, I will sleep if I can and when I can’t sleep I’ll turn on a boring movie or watch something that I know will make me sleepy and if worse comes to worse- I just lay there and relax. Anything to keep me from thinking too much. Stop my brain from racing enough that I can relax and sleep. If not then I’ll wait until I can sleep and I don’t care if it’s morning noon or night. If my body says I need sleep I pay attention and sleep. We all know what happens when we don’t get enough sleep. My body has shut down where nothing will wake me up. I’ve been bounced off my bed onto the floor and still stayed asleep, a train could come through my place and I can sleep right through it; so I listen to my body now and sleep when I can as long as I can and I don’t care what others think about it.