hi my boyfriend keeps waking at 4am ish does anyone know of any medical reasons for this?thanks?

Question

its not snoring sex full bladder

or sleeping to much during the day hes a hard working gardener and doesnt go to sleep till 10 12 x

Answer 1

sexual desire ...

Answer 2

I was a nurse for a number of years and when a person habitually awakens in the early morning hours...its usually a symptom of depression. Depression can take many forms and have many symptoms most people would not recognize as depression. Some other symptoms is lose of interest in things that use to make the person happy...i.e. a hobby or sport, irritability, trouble concentrating or holding interest, a feeling that something is wrong, sleeping more or less than usual. If you think he may have depression...suggest a visit to a doctor who can correctly diagnose the problem. Everyone has these symptoms from time to time...its only a problem if it occurs frequently. I hope this helps you. Good Luck!

Answer 3

To understand night waking you need to understand the nature of sleep.

Sleep is not one continuous stretch of sleep although it might feel like it to you. Sleep goes in bursts of REM sleep (rapid eye movement where you dream) and non rem. The reason babies wake up every few hours is because we all naturally wake up at the end of each cycle. The trick is that we realise where we are and that we are safe and go back to sleep without realising it and don't remember. Babies haven't yet learned to familiarise themselves with getting themselves back to sleep.

It could be that he is expecting to wake up every day at this time because he has inadvertently trained his body to do so. What he needs to do is change his sleep routine so that when he wakes up he doesn't see the "trigger" which keeps him awake. It could be that there is light coming through, or cars in the street. It could be something as simple as seeing the time on a bedside clock. Take away the clock, give him a sleep mask and give him some foam earplugs. Wake him up yourself in the morning. It should take a few nights before he gets used to the new routine and then he can have the room back to normal and leave out the plugs and mask. That should do the trick.

Answer 4

This sounds like it could be a type of insomnia. As I understand it there are two types: trouble FALLING asleep and trouble STAYING asleep. Personally I'm the former, but my dad's the latter. Some people just wake up before they're ready to.

I'd recommend seeing a physician about it. Lunesta or Ambien may be prescribed to help him sleep.

Answer 5

For some reason, he was woken at 4 in the morning some time ago, and it happened again and he noticed it. Now when he goes to bed, he starts thinking, 'I hope I don't wake up at 4 again', and because our minds and bodies are such amazing things and has a natural body clock, if you say to yourself, I want to wake up at 4, you will, so all he's done has got himself into the habit of waking up at 4.
He has to break this and the only way to do it is to say to himself, just before he goes to bed and just as he's about to go off, repeat over and over again, "I want to get up at 8, I want to get up at 8"
It might take a couple of days, but it will work.
Good luck.

Answer 6

Waking in the middle of the night or very early is often down to stress or depression. This certainly holds true in my own experience. When the stress is relieved, back comes the sleep.

Answer 7

i got the same problem, though i dont regard it as one. In my case, i had conditioned my mind 2 waking up at night for studies. 4 years after graduating, i cant sleep through the night without waking up xcept when i have drunk a little over my limit.

Your boyfriend must have conditioned himself for whatever reason, find out from him, it could be a good starting point. If his waking up bothers him aswell, he'll work at it n' overcome it.

The power of the mind is in your hands.

Answer 8

I wish I knew. I wake up at 2:30 every night. It is gettting old too. I feel your boyfriends pain!!!! The sad thing is, I keep thinking about the movie The Amittyville Horror............
Is your home haunted or have some sort of history?

Answer 9

The body may be used to it and it has become routine to wake at that time. He has to change his sleeping habits. Sleep later, do not take afternoon naps and a while later, it will get better.

Answer 10

sometime we get into bad sleeping habits..I worked shift work most of my life and I would spend weeks on a stupid cycle where I would wake up at an inappropriate time...like your boyfriend...If it doesn't stop he can go to a doctor and get a sleeping pill just for a couple of nights until he's back in sync.

Answer 11

there doesnt really have to be a reason,the bodys a funny thing and sometimes if you wake up once at 4am then it sort of sets itself to wake at 4am every morning,im exactly the same