Thanks very much to all of you who responded to my "?" on 8/20 about sleep. I'm trying all of your suggestions except not Ambien. I've used it in the past and it definitely did make my constipation worse, altho I certainly did sleep soundly! I'm having some success so far using the suggestions all of you gave me, but still not sleeping thru the night consistently.
My doctor told me something about gas and I'm wondering if anyone else has ever heard this as an explanation for why some peoples' colons become even more active at night. He says that during the night, since we're lying flat, the colon's inner pressure equalizes with the external air pressure outside of our body. This allows any trapped air to move more rapidly thru the entire GI tract and especially thru the colon (he said that this is b/c the colon has a direct connection to the outside thru the anus, so it equalizes more completely).
This has lead me to guess that I must have air in my colon that's not bothering me when I'm upright but becomes symptomatic while I'm sleeping and ultimately wakens me in the early AM.
Soooo, I'm also going to try drinking a mug of fennel tea after dinner, even if I don't have any gas symptoms at that time, b/c I think it's the gas that's waking me up in the early AM.
Has anyone had ever tried fennel tea to help w/ preventing gas during the night and thus help w/ staying asleep??
Has anyone ever heard this idea that my MD told me?
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Re: Sleep deprived F/U- anyone ever heard about this idea before
but still not sleeping thru the night consistently. 
