I'm sort of with cooley on this one, I don't think it matters how you get out of bed. This might affect your ability to recall a dream, but I don't think it will have any noticeable affect on your ability to be lucid in the next dream, which I think is what you're asking? The duration of time awake will have an effect.

How did things change one you got sick? What have you done to return to your "normal" schedule of LDing?