Sleep Report (Pain Edition)

I am past the pain (mostly) so let’s look back on how I’ve been sleeping. It’s not great. (View it large if needed.) Red is bad, and means fewer than four hours of sleep. There’s a lot of those. Of course it’s not “fewer than four hours” It’s “fewer than four hours of CPAP time” which would happen every time I would wake up after not even four hours of sleeping, typically in a lot of pain, and move to another room to as not disturb my partner. There are some good chunks of blue though. I thin the first one (furthest left) is when the increased my medication. There’s also a good section in April, right after I got the injections in my spine. That actually did provide a little relief for about two weeks, but the pain came right back after that. Overall this is the worst report in at least five years. There were some nights where I did get some sleep after the red < 4 records, but never more than an hour or two. I was often just exhausted, and sometimes I would take a nap later in the…