My brain has a 1am alarm I can’t switch off. Down to two suspects: sleep apnea and my job. Which would you chase first?

The thing I keep coming back to: it lines up with a stretch where my job’s gotten really stressful. I stew over upper management constantly, and I can’t shake the feeling that’s what’s driving this. Part of me wonders if changing jobs would just be the silver bullet that fixes the whole thing. Once I wake up I cannot get back to sleep at all. I am wired, I cannot get myself back to sleep I just lay there awake, my body is also pretty warm.

Here’s everything I’ve already thrown at it:

\*\*•\*\* Ashwagandha
\*\*•\*\* Phosphatidylserine
\*\*•\*\* Basically every “lower your cortisol” supplement on the shelf
\*\*•\*\* Honey before bed to keep blood sugar stable overnight

Some of it maybe took the edge off, but the wakeups are still bang on schedule.

So I’m turning it over to the hive mind:

\*\*•\*\* Anyone had the exact same thing fine for years, then months of clockwork wakeups and traced it back to stress or a job?
\*\*•\*\* If you changed jobs or dealt with the stress at the root, \*\*did the sleep actually come back?\*\*
\*\*•\*\* Or is this something deeper I should be looking at circadian rhythm, nervous system, apnea after all?

I’ll take anecdotes, protocols, hunches, whatever you’ve got. Tell me what actually worked for you.