Sleeping a lot

brooklynborn123

In the last month or so, my wife has started to sleep a lot more—yesterday she woke up at 3PM, even though she went to sleep around 11 PM (and slept soundly through the night). It is now almost 1PM and she is still asleep, again after going to sleep at around 11. Some of this may be due to her medications (although there has been no change in the dosing over the last 6 months or so—she takes Seroquel and trazadone).

Should I be trying to wake her up? When I do so, it is not appreciated……but she is getting disoriented as to time and it adds to her confusion.

charley0419

Brooklyn norm myself , my wife sleeps pretty good 10-7 no naps during I’d say she’s date 4-5 now. But who knows what tomorrow brings

terei

IME this is progression of the disease + I ended up not waking my mother. When we did wake her for meals as an example, she would face plant right into her plate because she would fall asleep again

jehjeh

DH went through a phase where he slept all night and half the day about once or twice a week. This went on for 4-5 months, then, back to normal. Now, when it occasionally occurs, it takes days to get him oriented to day and night. Wish I had the solution but I'm struggling to keep up with every change that occurs (almost daily, it seems).

CindyBum

This was part of the progression for both my mother and father-in-law. We just let them sleep. It felt odd at first, but so much of this journey is odd, so we just rolled with it. Them sleeping so much gave all the caregivers much needed breaks.

I feel a little guilty wishing my DW would sleep more. But, there it is.

midge333

I doubt this is medication related as she has been on the same dose for 6 months. It is likely secondary to progression. I would let her sleep until she wakens.

Russinator

My DW is doing the same thing - I let her ssleep.

ghphotog

My DW also is sleeping a lot more. Sometimes I look at her and think this may be it but she rebounds back to baseline but I sense a more permanent change happening.

Stan2

Of course every bodies situation is different but my wife's neurologist told me that she would benefit from a regular routine. I make sure she is in bed by 10pm and I wake her at 7:30. On occasion I will let her sleep an extra 1/2 hr but I try not to. If the time comes that she refuses to get up we'll address the situation again but for now it seems to work well for us.

Quilting brings calm

As long as she is sleeping all night, let her sleep during the day. Her body and her brain must need it. It’s a progression of the disease.

brooklynborn123

Thanks everyone for giving me the benefit of your experience. I am afraid this is a progression of the disease as well because I am seeing other signs of decline. I am going to let her sleep unless it results in her not sleeping at night, which it so far has not.

BPS

My wife was doing that. I talked to the doctor and he said if we were both ok with it that it was not hurting her, but to make sure she gets her meds and enough food and water. I started waking her up and giving her meds and water and a little to eat and she would go right back to sleep. This happened for a while then she would get up earlier for a while then sleep more again. Now that she is in MC I go see her every day about 1:30 or 2:00 and sometimes she is up and sometimes she is sleeping.