Maragaret glad all went well. I’m sure the soreness will wear off very quickly.
And so to sleep! Well, my tools are quite simple really….. deep breathing and pillow spray.
Two breathing exercises: 5 deep breaths, in for 4 hold for 2, out for 4, hold for 2, repeat. I also recite, in my head, girls names alphabetically, 5 times each with each accompanied by a deep breath. I count 5 girls with the initial A etc. I rarely get passed B. I couple that with either a pillow spray such as Deep Sleep, but there are plenty others in the market, or I recently found ‘scentered’ which is a wax like stick which you rub onto your wrist and temples which works very well for me.
I think the real secret is NOT to get up because that literally does wake you up especially if you use your ‘phones etc’ or read. It may take a while to get back to sleep at first but it really does work. Sweet dreams!