Why do I have difficulty sleeping?

Symptoms:

You’re on furlough Stress. Any stressful Change your bedtime

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and worried your job life event or trauma, routine to a relaxing ritual won’t survive. At night such as job loss and death with reading or listening to your mind races making it or illness of a loved one, music and take up a regular difficult to sleep and you may lead to insomnia. daily activity as exercise wake in the early hours. promotes a good night’s sleep. Don’t nap. De-stress with yoga.

Rearrange your evening,

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give higher priority to eating your evening meal early, don’t overload your stomach and don’t graze. Avoid caffeine and alcohol. Don’t smoke.

You get home from

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work late and only manage to eat just before Many people experience you go to bed. You feel heartburn, a backflow of physically uncomfortable acid and food from the when you lie down and stomach into the find getting off to sleep oesophagus, after eating difficult. which can keep you awake.

which See your doctor who can

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is a risk condition refer you to a specialist for heart disease and for assessment of what’s heart attack as during causing the blockage to your each pause in your breathing. It could be breathing your blood something as simple as being oxygen level drops. overweight. Many cases

improve with weight loss.

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you that you stop breathing periodically through the night and this interrupts your sleep. You’re overweight and have always snored.

It could be: Eating too much late in the evening. Sleep apnoea, Stop it: