![]() ![]() I seem to have replaced one evil with another.” “Initially, I was staying awake all night, but I now get these annoying jerks which wake me up exactly an hour after I fall asleep, like someone has set an alarm in my head. “When I was about 41, I started getting insomnia, which I’d never had in my life before,” she says. Jacqui Paterson, who is 44 and lives in the U.K., says she has experienced these kinds of twitches on an almost-nightly basis for about three years. “They worry about it before they go to bed, which makes it worse.” “For people who suffer from hypnic jerks, it’s awful,” he adds. Although there is no definite explanation for what causes hypnic jerks, people are more likely to suffer from them when they’re sleep deprived or anxious, or when they do sleep-impairing habits before going to bed, like drinking caffeine or doing exercise close to bedtime, says James Wilson, a U.K.-based sleep behavior and sleep environment expert.
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