{"id":297,"date":"2025-07-29T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/sleep-and-tiredness\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:47:19","slug":"sleep-and-tiredness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/sleep-and-tiredness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep and fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many people find that their sleep is disrupted after a cardiac event. They may have difficulty falling off to sleep, may wake up during the night, or may wake up very early in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can have a number of causes.\u00a0 For some people, a period in hospital\u00a0 or a period of pain after an operation disturbs their sleep routine.\u00a0 Napping during the daytime can be natural early after a heart attack or operation but\u00a0if this carries on it may reduce the need for sleep at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\u00a0others,\u00a0poor sleep\u00a0may due to\u00a0anxiety\u00a0which can cause an overactive mind at night or fears of falling asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below we have included information and advise on how to get a better sleep. On our Anxiety and Low Mood<\/a> page we have also included some  examples (fictionalised) of how our patients have worked to reduce anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep and tiredness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dealing with insomnia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tips for a better sleep<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people find that their sleep is disrupted after a cardiac event. They may have difficulty falling off to sleep, may wake up during the night, or may wake up very early in the morning. This can have a number of causes.  For some people, a period in hospital  or a period of pain after an operation disturbs their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-297","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Many people find that their sleep is disrupted after a cardiac event. They may have difficulty falling off to sleep, may wake up during the night, or may wake up very early in the morning. This can have a number of causes.  For some people, a period in hospital  or a period of pain after an operation disturbs their","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/cardiacrehabilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}