Day 4
1:00 - 3:00 am: sleep
6:00 am: nap1:20 pm: nap
6:00 pm: nap
11:00 pm - 3:00 am: sleep
Day four was wonderful, I was ready to take the leap to
uberman sleep that night as I was only sleeping 3 hours each night. I have not
been tired this entire experiment and I was excited about the next step! Then a
migraine started to set in that evening, around 9 pm. It started so slowly I
thought it was simply a stiff neck from the busy day I had. I rarely take medication
for any pain. My usual plan is to sleep and let my body restore function. If
that doesn't work, then I turn to homeopathy, then herbs, then drugs, in that
order. So I decided to forgo Uberman naps and get a few hours together. I
stayed up an hour past my usual nap time and slept until I woke, which was four
hours. That is when I realized this wasn't simple neck soreness, I was heading
into migraine land.
Day 5
5:00 am - 6:30 am: sleep
2:00: nap
6:00 - 8:30 pm: sleep
9:30 pm - 7:00 am: sleep
My migraines started 6 1/2 years ago as a result of a very unfortunate incident that caused me extreme stress and though I don't get them very often, they usually last for two days. If I am able to get to my chiropractor early, I can sometimes shorten them to one day. For the migraine pain, I simply have always just slept them off, when possible. The longer I ignore it and don't sleep, the worse it gets. As I highly doubt my chiropractor was awake at 3:00 am, so I opted for sleep. Not wanting to annihilate my polyphasic sleep schedule, I took longer naps, which my body craved. I had meetings in the afternoon so I couldn't continue sleeping but by 6 pm the pain was so severe I was nauseous and it was impossible to keep my eyes open from the pain. I apologized to my family and I crashed, hard. When I woke at 8:30 pm I knew I was on the right track as the pain had lessened. However I knew if I pushed it and tried to stay awake, it would be much worse. So I went back to bed after making sure my kids had brushed their teeth and tucking them in. I crashed again and made myself stay in bed until it was gone. That wasn't hard, as I only woke up twice and was able to go back to sleep fairly well again.
What have I done to my polyphasic sleep schedule?
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