03-22-2026 — Sleep update

Howdy all. Weather is still springing to winter. Might have been 60 overnight, after barely touching 40 in the daytime yesterday. And has been falling since this morning. Back down to near 40 again. And will be back to freezing tomorrow morning, and well below on Tuesday — Snow expected before then.

It has been awhile since I discussed my various attempts to sleep nights. My best results seem to happen when I take the GABA supplement about 1-2 hours before going to bed, and a couple of the CBD gummies just before bedtime. The THC gummies do nothing when I take 1, but cause minor “high” feeling when I take two. Neither helps with sleep.

Even with the proper dosing (for me, not you!!), what happens is I fall asleep for a short nap within 15-20 minutes, and then wake up for the next 4-5 hours. Then, I start 45 minutes sleep, 15 minutes awake, cycles. And, when it is time to get up, I don’t want to because I’m finally sleeping some.

Last night/this morning, that meant at 3:30 or so, I started the sleep cycles. And come 7:30, I couldn’t get up, nor at 8:30. Finally got out of bed after 9:30 — actually closer to 10:00 am. That isn’t great either. For, if I get up late, I am groggy for hours — like I am now at 1 pm.

I must admit I was a bit concerned sleeping that much, so I did my monitors this morning.

After getting downstairs, and doing the morning chores, like litter box duty, feeding the Kitty, making coffee, filling humidifiers with gallons of water, creating a microwave omelette, and tossing it in to burn, and trash, and other items, I sat down and took Blood Pressure and O2 readings. This is BP and shows heart rate.

The heart rate reflects me running about. But the pressure at 132/77 is actually decent for a physically fit 71 year old man. I wish I was physically fit. I’m morbidly obese, and would be still so if I lost 100 pounds. So, those are really good numbers.

Lousy photography, but still can be ready. Blood O2 was at 95%. Not perfect, but for an old human, above 90 is considered good.

So, at least the heart and lungs are doing as well as can be. Oh, Apple watch says “sinus rhythm” for ECG too. So it isn’t failing right now.

I guess I’ll live another cold wet day and can pretend to Enjoy Life