Hi,
I am having an unusual sleep issue that's worrying me so much I had to ask about it. I have a history of anxiety and chronic nasal obstruction, both of which have effected my quality of sleep over the years. Both these issues have actually been reduced rather drastically after going on a restrictive diet to reduce my IBS symptoms. I've been anxiety and supplement-free for the past 2 months, and anti-depressent free for 2 years at this point.
Anyway, since 3 nights ago I have been abruptly waking up more or less 5 hours and a half into my sleep (so always at 6am-6:15am as I sleep at 12:30am), feeling as if I got no sleep at all and unable to go back to sleep. During the day I am very tired, especially now on the 3rd day. I feel exactly as I felt whenever I deliberatly stayed up all night. I will point out that I have no trouble falling asleep initially. The cause of this is unknown to me but I did bang the top of my head against a wooden beam while running up to the attic 3 or 4 days ago. The hit was somewhat hard, made me feel pressure between my eyes, but I was able to go about the rest of my day and forget about it.
I have no idea if this is related or not and if it keeps up I'll have to get it checked. In the meantime has anyone here have any insight on what might be the cause? I am wondering wether or not I should take 2mb of melatonin tonight and see what that does but I understand very little about how melatonin actually works in the brain and fear it would only make it worse. I've taken 1mg melatonin occationally but not since 2-3 months ago as I never really needed them.
