Men who struggled with sleep, did a sleep study fix it?
August 30, 2025
Men who struggled with sleep and constantly woke up in middle of night and cant fall back a sleep, did a sleep study help you? If yes or no, can you provide more information?
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Kind of. I sleep a lot better and feel more rested with a CPAP. However, I still cant sleep 7 hours straight, I wake up several times a night.
Haven’t done a sleep study, but that exact problem was entirely fixed for me by significantly increasing physical activity. Went from 3500 steps/day to 10-12k and sleep problems dissapeared in 2 weeks.
Not yet, but it helped a friend, my spouse and my father. So if you think that could help you identify the issue, don’t hesitate to try.
A good night sleep is so important to your physical health AND your mental health. It affects everything, and more as you grow older.
For myself, I tend to wake up a lot, but since exercising with an intense sport (dragon-boat, not gym), and taking sleep aiding pills (trazodone) or melatonine, I sleep more soundly (thought it is not perfect). And it is a great help in my daily life.
Lastly, some therapy could help. If you wake up and the little hamster starts spinning with the issues of your daily life, then you need to find a way to deal with this mental anxiety. Meditation could help as well.
I had pretty bad insomnia for around 1.5 years. I went to a sleep doctor and they cured me within a month. No sleep study needed, I can’t see how that would hurt though.
My Cpap is amazing and I love it.
I didnt do a sleep study. I knew what my issues were. Working night shift, staying up late anyway, eating too late, bad sleep hygiene. I was fighting my body’s natural rhythm. I spent a year having a consistent sleep/wake cycle, and practiced good sleep hygiene. Im asleep by 9:45 at the latest and ill wake up sometime between 5am and 7am depending on obligations or how tired i am.
No but quiting alcohol did! No more sleeping med.
Yes, sleep study and then treating sleep apnea saved my life. it’s bigger than just waking up a lot. I was literally dozing off behind the wheel at times.
It’s funny though how much more sensitive I am now to missing just an hour of sleep. If I get 6.5 hours if sleep vs 7.5, I need a nap the next day.
Losing weight helped more
Man, in my case it was: Diet, exercise (weight lifting) and all the sleep hygiene that people often say.
1) Sleep in the same temperature always (23Cº is the recommended)
2) Clean well-made bed with the right amount of pillows so you can feel comfortable
3) Avoiding all kind of screens one hour before bedtime.
4) No caffeine after 4pm.
It’s kind of ridiculous that I have to do all that to have a normal life, but yeah, I do.
Have you talked to your doctor?
A sleep study can be helpful for specific things but if it’s not one of those things, it won’t help. Most sleep studies are more related to breathing issues. Do you snore?
Sleep apnea is a silent killer. It’s worth the study to determine that alone.
CPAPs aren’t that big a deal. You get used to them. I do still need melatonin to shut my brain off at night and it’s like using caffeine to wake up in the morning. Should be fine in moderation.
Yes
Yes, 100%. CPAP changed my life
It didn’t for me but my sleep issues were pretty easy to diagnose and have a solution for a lot of people. Work anxiety. Weekends I can sleep like a log. Weekdays I wake up early basically every single night and can’t fall back asleep.
What was suggested to me was basically to go to bed earlier and wake up an hour or so before I need to get ready for work and use some relaxation techniques. The idea being that eventually I will stop waking up in a stress condition.
I have too busy of a schedule during the week to do that. I work almost 10 hour days, gym, and take care of my mother with medical issues. I just don’t have time for an hour every day. It could work for other people though.
I even tried going to the gym before I went to work but I still woke up on a stress mode and just had to get up earlier than I already had to. I start work at 6am so getting up at 3 to 3:30am was miserable. I also don’t go to the gym every day so my sleep schedule would change day to day.
16 comments
Kind of. I sleep a lot better and feel more rested with a CPAP. However, I still cant sleep 7 hours straight, I wake up several times a night.
Haven’t done a sleep study, but that exact problem was entirely fixed for me by significantly increasing physical activity. Went from 3500 steps/day to 10-12k and sleep problems dissapeared in 2 weeks.
Not yet, but it helped a friend, my spouse and my father. So if you think that could help you identify the issue, don’t hesitate to try.
A good night sleep is so important to your physical health AND your mental health. It affects everything, and more as you grow older.
For myself, I tend to wake up a lot, but since exercising with an intense sport (dragon-boat, not gym), and taking sleep aiding pills (trazodone) or melatonine, I sleep more soundly (thought it is not perfect). And it is a great help in my daily life.
Lastly, some therapy could help. If you wake up and the little hamster starts spinning with the issues of your daily life, then you need to find a way to deal with this mental anxiety. Meditation could help as well.
I had pretty bad insomnia for around 1.5 years. I went to a sleep doctor and they cured me within a month. No sleep study needed, I can’t see how that would hurt though.
My Cpap is amazing and I love it.
I didnt do a sleep study. I knew what my issues were. Working night shift, staying up late anyway, eating too late, bad sleep hygiene. I was fighting my body’s natural rhythm. I spent a year having a consistent sleep/wake cycle, and practiced good sleep hygiene. Im asleep by 9:45 at the latest and ill wake up sometime between 5am and 7am depending on obligations or how tired i am.
No but quiting alcohol did! No more sleeping med.
Yes, sleep study and then treating sleep apnea saved my life. it’s bigger than just waking up a lot. I was literally dozing off behind the wheel at times.
It’s funny though how much more sensitive I am now to missing just an hour of sleep. If I get 6.5 hours if sleep vs 7.5, I need a nap the next day.
Losing weight helped more
Man, in my case it was: Diet, exercise (weight lifting) and all the sleep hygiene that people often say.
1) Sleep in the same temperature always (23Cº is the recommended)
2) Clean well-made bed with the right amount of pillows so you can feel comfortable
3) Avoiding all kind of screens one hour before bedtime.
4) No caffeine after 4pm.
It’s kind of ridiculous that I have to do all that to have a normal life, but yeah, I do.
Have you talked to your doctor?
A sleep study can be helpful for specific things but if it’s not one of those things, it won’t help. Most sleep studies are more related to breathing issues. Do you snore?
Sleep apnea is a silent killer. It’s worth the study to determine that alone.
CPAPs aren’t that big a deal. You get used to them. I do still need melatonin to shut my brain off at night and it’s like using caffeine to wake up in the morning. Should be fine in moderation.
Yes
Yes, 100%. CPAP changed my life
It didn’t for me but my sleep issues were pretty easy to diagnose and have a solution for a lot of people. Work anxiety. Weekends I can sleep like a log. Weekdays I wake up early basically every single night and can’t fall back asleep.
What was suggested to me was basically to go to bed earlier and wake up an hour or so before I need to get ready for work and use some relaxation techniques. The idea being that eventually I will stop waking up in a stress condition.
I have too busy of a schedule during the week to do that. I work almost 10 hour days, gym, and take care of my mother with medical issues. I just don’t have time for an hour every day. It could work for other people though.
I even tried going to the gym before I went to work but I still woke up on a stress mode and just had to get up earlier than I already had to. I start work at 6am so getting up at 3 to 3:30am was miserable. I also don’t go to the gym every day so my sleep schedule would change day to day.
Melatonin worked for me