Counting the sheep- two, three, four, five.

I haven’t been sleeping all that well lately.  I keep waking up in the middle of the night and just lying there. I don’t mind when this happens on the odd occasion, but three weeks of it is definitely enough.  I’m not stressed or anxious, I’m not ruminating over anything, I feel tired enough when I go to bed, I’m getting enough exercise, I’m not watching TV or on the computer for hours before bedtime, nor am I boozing or consuming caffeine.  I’m not even dreading going to bed because I know I won’t sleep, thus creating my own reality, I just go to bed every night without thinking too much about it, but wake up at 3am anyway and lay awake for two hours, then just drift lightly from 5.30am.  So what the fuck is going on?

The only thing I can attribute this to is my thyroid medication, so I have taken myself down 10mcg from 40 to 30 per day.  It’s been two days, and no change yet, but I’ll give it a couple of weeks and see if that changes my sleep pattern.  I’m loathe to meddle too much with the thyroid meds just weeks out from the start of IVF, ya know?  So if 30mcg per day doesn’t fix it, I won’t go lower, and I’ll just have to think of something else.  But by then I’ll be on IVF meds which may well put my sleep out of whack (they have in the past created just this scenario) so it will be hard to tell.

Also, my egg donor is currently having the same sleeping pattern.  She’s waking up at 4am, but instead of lying there, she’s just getting up and doing her housework and teaching prep!  Could it be the contraceptive pill is doing this to us?  That’s all we have in common.  Otherwise, I guess it’s just a crazy coincidence.

Oh well.  I guess it will pass in its own time.  Meanwhile, perhaps some sleepytime chamomile before bed. Yuk.