Magnesium can help you sleep mechanism to work better. Take a magnesium tablet or capsule an hour before bed time. Do not take magnesium if you take Neurontin (gabapentin) at bed time. I need Neurontin to get my body to stop being active. Otherwise, my body will not relax and I often have body jerks.

I have fought with sleep struggles for ten years. I can sleep 6 hours during the day, then another 8 hours at night. I can not see any connection between my daytime sleeping and my ability or inability to sleep at night.

As I said before, if you have someone who can watch you sleep, ask them to monitor your breathing. My wife knows to cause me to change sleeping position if she hear odd breathing. She knows that otherwise, my day will be useless.

More than thirty years of undiagnosed central sleep apnea eventually caused my father's death from the resulting dementia. He refused to be tested.

I am convinced that the same system that helps one sleep can be involved with the breathing disruptions. When the chemistry gets out of whack, we suffer.