What a nightmare. I've got work later and can't catch any form of sleep.
It's a pain in the arse probably ruined my day and pretty unhealthy the most annoying thing and somewhat of a regular occurrence. I'm not depressed or anything but perhaps partial stress can take over.
Anyone have similar problem? I assume getting prescribed sleeping pills is the start.
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Now I'm lucky if I get six hours once in a week. Wouldn't recommend sleeping pills - I was prescribed them once and they mullered me for days.
Sadly, I haven't found a single thing that works yet.
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Weekdays go to bed at 12:30 up at 06:30 so lucky if i even get 5 hours.
Weekends go to bed at 12:00 up at 08:30 --------if im lucky.
I am so used to this now I function fine on little sleep, and as Leroy says I consider myself lucky if I have a night with 5 hours plus of unbroken sleep.
If you are looking at tablets I find 2 x Piriton sometimes work but you do get used to them.
I was always terrible at getting off to sleep, would take hours, and for about 10 years with the alarm going off at 5.45, i never really needed more that 5-6hrs a night.
We then had twins 3 years ago, and during the cross-feeding, for 6 months or so that 5-6 went down to 3-4 hrs, but it didn't make me anymore tired or feel differently.
Then they started sleeping through the night and then i seemed to hit 'the wall'. Whether its coincidental or not, i don't know. But now i go off in minutes and i sleep solidly for around 8hrs every night and still feel completely shattered the next day (and can easily doze off at weekend afternoons).
Thought it was just a stage, but been like it for about 2 1/2 years now and can't see it changing soon.
He'll go to bed normally then within an hour, he'll be awake until 6am and then he goes back to bed when my Mum gets up. It drives my Mum mad. By the time he's done that for 4-5 days, he's so knackered he'll go to bed and sleep all night and half of the next day. Then he'll be back to square one again.
He was referred to a sleep diagnosis clinic but they never found a solution.
He suffers from what is known as restless leg syndrome as part of it too. Basically your legs muscles twitch like anything and that wakes him up. The prescribed medication is something which is used by MS sufferers but my Dad seems to be totally immune to it now as he's been taking it for so long.
We really hope that his upcoming knee replacement op will help him because he's constantly in pain at the moment which tends to keep him awake too. Its really distressing to see him like it. He's always been such an active person then all of a sudden he's not doing an awful lot because of the pain and lack of sleep and he finds it so frustrating.
I suffer from insomnia mildly in comparison to my Dad. It doesnt help that the dividing floor of my flat seems to be so thin that I can hear the 10 month old baby downstairs crying every night, as well as my other neighbours bedroom antics (she screams like a banshee!). I've learnt not to consume anything with caffeine in gone 6pm and not to touch energy drinks when training in the evenings otherwise I will still be wide awake at 4am.
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It is never a sleep that is not broken
If I get more than 5 hrs I feel knackard
Is it not just normal to sleep for 5 hrs
Drinking alcohol will also lessen your ability to sleep. Yes, if you've had a lot you go out like a light, but usually will disturb a lot later on.
I went to court with my mate because he wanted to start crossbreading a pittbull with a collie but it was currently banned within the UK so we were there to try and get it OK'd. Jeffery Archer was the judge and my mate had made a leaflet about the dogs he'd had before and how well he'd treated them, etc. Then on my was out of court I met Petrescu and was telling him he could do better than Palace.
So strange.
I stopped all that, but it didn't really improve my sleep at all. I'm lucky if I get a couple of hours and then I'm awake for a couple before I sometmes drop off again, only to then have to get up for work.
I don't like taking tablets for anything and a while back my doctor recommended some exercises to try which did help. Basically, lying down in bed and, with arms by your side and legs stretched out, you tense your whole body, hold for 10 seconds and release. Do this several times over and it is meant to relax your whole body and make it easier to get to sleep.
Other than that, the upside to getting a cold is that half a bottle of Night Nurse knocks me out!!