Waking up at 4 am after drinking

[trixietrack]

Waking up at 4 am after drinking

i think that heavy drinkers usually pass out, which really isn't going to sleep. it's more like being sedated, like anesthesia . I am sure some of you have had surgery. waking up from that does not feel good.

My ex used to leave work at 4pm ( I usually leave around 7pm) he would go to the bar and drink till around 7:30 or so, then come home around 8 and say he was exhausted (good excuse) didn't want dinner (that I made), then he would pass out on the couch, I couldn't wake him at all!! I tried everything but cold water.
he would just snore and snore, then he would wake up around 2 or 3 scrambling around. he would try and go to sleep, and couldn't then he would get up for work exhausted grumpy and do it all over again.

he never remembered dreaming. poor thing.

[acadiaofmaine]

Waking up at 4 am after drinking

I so identify with you all! Over the holidays I really lost control. Every night I would wake up at 3:02 on the dot! Unfortunately what I would then do is get up, have another couple glasses of wine, and fall back asleep. Then wake up feeling horrible and sometimes have ANOTHER couple of glasses, esp on the weekends when my kids slept in. If I were "lucky" I'd keep this up til around noon, when I could get up and start all over again! Talk about destructive, insane and really hard on the stomach! I'm amazed I kept my job and didn't hurt anyone (except myself).

That's what I did over the holidays. Now I am on day 10 of only one light beer per day. I am sleeping much better, this deep, deep sleep with lots of dreams. I can tell my brain is dream deprived and it feels good to have them again.

Tomorrow, AF!

AM

[Hoosierdaddy]

Waking up at 4 am after drinking

Thats one reason I quit

Started waking up 4 or 5 hours after drinking with anxiety and not falling back asleep for a couple of hours. Sucked. The buzz did not outweigh the end result and it pulls you into that viscious cycle of drinking to go back to sleep. It felt like after a week of this that drinking was the only solution to feel better -- that's when I said enough is enough.

[skootiemom]

Waking up at 4 am after drinking

For me as well.... 3am.... thanks for reminding me... ugh!

Skoots

Day 10

[redhibiscus]

Waking up at 4 am after drinking

I also wake up at 2 or three in the morning after drinking and have the "jitters." I thought that it was alchohol withdrawal. I never took another drink in the middle of the night. Heart pounded, sweated, went over and over what I had said and done, and pleaded with God to help me never feel like this again. It is hell. Then you wake up and feel like someone sh** you out. Wow, if you think about it, drinking is so fun. I am trying to focus on feeling good and am now on day 14. I am so thankful for this site and the wonderful support and information from the people who are on the same journey I am. To another day AF!!!!

[ProjectileVomit]

Waking up at 4 am after drinking

Hoosierdaddy;519264 wrote: it pulls you into that viscious cycle of drinking to go back to sleep.

I'm surprised noone else has mentioned this. I routinely would get completely whacked on beer, crash out at 10 or 11 and be awake again at 2 or 3am, the only solution for me was to sit up on the internet drinking 4 or 5 more beers and then I could get back to sleep.

Now that i've cut down drastically this last week I'm still waking up only now I can't get back to sleep at all. I'm thinking of trying some sleeping pills but if I really have already damaged my liver pills may not be a good idea :/