I have found that my sleeping cycle has changed some what since forced retirement due to PN. Usually I will go to bed around 11pm and sleep for 4 hours and then settle back in the recliner and the internet , take some happy pills and go back to bed around 10am for a few hours and here is where the trouble starts
For example just now I woke up after sleeping 2 hours during the day and My PN has gone nuts with a deep buzzing and pins n needles which will probably lead into a full flare.

What causes daytime sleeping (for me) to affect my PN? I went to bed feeling fine with few symptoms and awoke with a deep buzzing and pins n needles in my feet that wont go away? anyone else get this during the day just after a short sleep?

I get something similar if I get into one of my triggers—usually a food trigger, but other triggers as well. Some triggers hit me within a few hours—others may be delayed a day or two.

When my sleeping cycle is off from insomnia or whatever, all manner of weird symptoms can rudely manifest. At these times, I have amitriptyline, which helps me sleep through the night (the reason I have/take it).

Doc

For me I find it is usually cuz my feet have gotten hot. I slepp 10pm to 4 am great, then wake at 4am feet burning and swollen. I guess I believe I pull my feet in under the blankets as I sleep with a fan on them so they get cold and I pull them in and I wake with them hot.

But, it's a crap shoot. I was also told its and adrenal / cortisol issue that I wake at the same time every night.

Really this disease would be so much easier to put up with if we had some sort of stability in the symptoms. It truly is living hour to hour

I have the same thing happen, lack of the deep REM sleep, and not having a sound sleep, makes a comatose nap for me in the late afternoon, evening. when I wake up, sometimes my arms are curled up like a dead cockroach! Numbness, pins and needles, or my arm completely asleep. But the plus side, the comatose naps are more refreshing! Why this happens, who knows...

I 2nd that statement ! I've often thought 'why can't this be A B C D'..lol.....guess that's coming from my accounting background

I never know how I'm going to feel each morning when I put my feet on the floor. Makes it very hard to schedule anything.

Debi from Georgia

Ohhh this! At least we could plan our days and nights.

As for sleep, well, it's 2am now as I write. I'm wide awake. I'll go to sleep in about an hour and wake up around 8am.

I think part of what makes it hard to get to sleep is, by laying there in bed, there is no distractions. Nothing to compete with my pain for my attention. So, there I am, stuck thinking about my pain. And when I finally get to sleep it often greets me with bizzaare nightmares. Fun stuff!

You are not alone!