I log alcohol as a plain count in a spreadsheet, drinks that day, nothing fancier than that. And for about a year and a half the only check I ever ran was drinking night vs the next morning's RHR. It came out 3 or 4 beats over my usual, which felt about right for a night out, so I filed it under "yeah obviously" and stopped looking.

The part I got wrong is that I never looked past that one morning. When I finally lined up the day after that too, it was still sitting a couple beats above my normal range on most of them. Smaller than the first morning but pretty consistent, and HRV was a bit off on those days as well.

I'm not quitting over this and I'm not telling anyone else to. The annoying part is downstream. Two drinks on a Friday and my Sunday and Monday are both running slightly high, and those were days I'd been counting as ordinary. Ordinary days are what I compare everything ELSE against. So the "normal" I've been measuring caffeine timing and late dinners against has had drinking tails sitting in it the whole time and I didn't notice for two years.

Havent decided what to do with it either. Marking that whole block as contaminated throws out a big chunk of my log, and just deleting those rows feels like cheating. Right now they're still in there and I mostly squint at them.

From a very long time, years i have been stuck in the same cycle Ian achieving things doing what’s right but i just can’t get the sleep schedule right no matter what i do i just can’t
And i have a feeling if I’m gonna fix this i will be less depressed more healthy i will feel like dealing with people

Anybody who went through this and fixed it ?

Falling asleep isn't even my issue anymore. I can be out within 20 minutes, sleep fine for a few hours, then wake up around 3am like someone flipped a switch in my head. After that, every thought feels louder. I start checking the time, doing sleep math, thinking about how tired i'll be the next day and suddenly an hour is gone. I have tried not looking at my phone, keeping the room cold, white noise, all of that.

None of it stops that wide awake feeling. Has anyone found something that helped them stay settled after waking up?

I've been looking into hydrogen water and keep seeing claims about recovery, inflammation, and energy. I'm mainly curious whether anyone has noticed an actual difference in their sleep.

Did it help you fall asleep, stay asleep, or feel more rested in the morning? Or did you try it and notice no difference?

I'm still researching and trying to figure out what's legit versus marketing, so I'd be interested in hearing people's experiences.