Will waking up at different hours disturb your sleep cycle?

Question:

I have been having lots of trouble sleeping for an extremely long time now. My work schedule is not normal. There are days that I will have to be to work for 7:30AM and the next day I won't have to be there until 2 PM. Last week I had a shift that started at 5PM. The bottom line is that every day it's different hours. I wake up different times of the day. Does that have anything to do with why I can't sleep? I try to take an over the counter sleeping vitamin, but it doesn't help. I've taken prescriptioned pills before, but they only worked for like 2 weeks. After that I became immune to them I guess you could say. I have read that hot tea, milk, and even excercising before bed will help. I've tried all of those and no luck yet.

Answers:
My answer to your question is "Yes". The waking up different hours naturally disturb your sleeping cycle. If you are in habit to sleep at a fixed time. say at 10 PM, and when you don't go to sleep at this time, your sleeping habit will be disturbed. It is a natural cycle which is not to be disturbed and it should continue to take its place.I however agree that light exercise and walking before going to bed can help to overcome your disturbed schedule and you can continue to do it as long as your habit of sleeping does not clash with your habits.

Other Answers:
Sometimes it will, and it depends on why you wake up.

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The time you go to sleep will effect your sleep habits more than the time you wake up. When the body recognizes that it's getting dark outside, the brain increases the production of melatonin, so that we feel sleepy.

There was a study, using several completely blind adults, that used melatonin to 'fool' their brains into believing that it was night. These people would go to sleep in the middle of the day, and wake up that evening.

My suggestion is that if you're having difficulty sleeping, try taking melatonin tablets. I take 10mg of melatonin every night before I go to sleep, and I sleep like an angel. You can get pretty reasonably priced melatonin from http://www.puritanspride.com

I also have taken 50mg benadryl (diphenhydramine hydrochloride) and 900 mg of valerian root -- also available on that website, but I'm confident that the thing that has helped me FALL asleep the best is the melatonin (if you want a enhanced quality of sleep, I suggest the valerian root too).

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