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Sorry about the delay in popping by to say help but I have been real busy lately. How is your insomnia at the mo?
If there is anything I can help you with let me know, post your thoughts and experiences and share with fellow insomniacs across the globe.
Have fun, ad aps, meet people and help cure your insomnia.
All the best.
Vincent D
Ann
I am aware that whatever we write on the Wall is open to be viewed by all and I think I might prefer it if our chats continued in private without the world to see what is said.
Can we try and use the e-mail system. I know you once sent an e-mail to me so must have my address. I do not know how to access yours. Maybe you could send me another e-mail with your address in it?
I really am not so good at this. Do not want to use facebook. - Too open. Ann
It's 4am Tues am and this is when I'm supposed to get up. Last night I slept fairly well. After naping off and on all day yesterday I really didn't think I would sleep at all. I guess the sleep deprivation finally caught up with me. I feel rested this am. That's not a feeling that I get very often. It's nice and I'm looking forward to a productive day at work.
I hope you sleep as well tonight.
Karen
page...errasing everything I've written. Then sometimes it shows up somewhere else!! I had just written you a very long explination of why I am the way I am and It just disappeared.. frustrating.
I had 2 teeth pulled on Fri. and was taking pain killers for 2 days. I actually thought that I had written you back. I did catch up on a little sleep but not much. I can't understand why I don't sleep more than 2 hours at a time. I quit smoking cigarettes and took Chantix (a medication) to help. It causes very vivid dreams and insomnia in some people. It did with me. I took the medication for 3 months and it worked for me but the insomnia didn't stop when I stopped taking the medication. I keep hoping that this will lessen with time.
Today it rained so I couldn't work. I turned into a complete slug and did nothing all day. I took naps and ate......that's about it. Caught up on some more sleep. Now I probably won't sleep at all tonight.
In your last correspondence you mentioned that there was probably something deeper that was causing my insomnia. I was diagosed with be-polar disorder several years ago. It took a couple of years to figure out the correct medications to put me on an even keel but things a very much under controll now. I used to be very depressed or really happy. But still through all of that I didn't seem to have the difficulty sleeping that I have now. I'm coping with it and can function (barely) during the day.
I need to talk to the doctor and get to the bottom of why I'm not sleeping for longer periods of time. But it's time to go to bed and sleep for a couple of hours..ha ha. Perhaps I'll write more later.
Karen
Have you ever seen anyone about your problem with sleeping? I know it costs a bloody fortune and where you are you have to pay for all your health care - don't you?? so its a different ball game. Though I'm allowed 4 sessions only of CBT on the NHS to help me sort out mine. I've go t my first appointment in a couple of weeks time, - Only had to wait a few months!! but of course the hypno therapy, (which I pay an arm and a leg for), will have sorted me out by then and all will be fine!!???!!! - So I am sure I won't need it anyway!!! If only we could both just do what we should really be programmed to do and just fall asleep and stay there all night!!
You poor old soul - having to get up so many times in the night. I know at times the sheer frustration of not sleeping has driven me out of bed to watch tv or do something else, - Just so that I don't go mad and I can take my mind of the fact that I am so exhausted and can't sleep. - But what you saying seems slightly different. There must be some deep down reason, - but how hard do you want to search?? - You seem to have been through quite a rough time with relationships and that must have taken its toll. Were you happy before that?
- When I first went to hypno therapy I discovered that I was really scared of something bad happening when i was asleep. I was basically afraid of the blackness, the dark. -I went back and remembered lots of strange snippets of my life that altogether painted this picture full of fear, that I had not even realised existed. - I found it hard to take pills to sleep, because I was scared I would not wake up - and became so exhausted that I no longer could see what was going on. - Its sounds a bit heavy, but I am all very matter of fact about it really. - Seem to have got over that , and sleep is better than before, but I still have a way to go.
But for now its Sunday lunchtime, I have a stinking cold, have lost my voice and really want to do nothing , but have promised to help with homework etc etc - There is still lots to clear up after the party last night. - My dear sweet husband is doing some of it at the moment , so I ought to go and help. - Hope you are feeling better after your dental problems. - Sounds awful having four teeth out. - Rest well and here's to sleep and tranquility.
Ps. Don't worry I'll not write to you in French!! - Take care Ann x
Actually I had typed quite a bit but I don't think I can recreate all of it. But I do believe you will figure this out and be able to get back to a more normal sleep pattern. At least I hope so and I hope the same for myself. I've been getting a little sleep on the couch between 2:30 and 4:00 to 4:30. That's when I usually get up for work . I start at 6:15am. Some days I feel as though my whole nervous system has been pulled through a strainer. But you just keep pushing through the day..........this will get better. I'm sure of it. I just can't figure out when.
I may not be making much sense tonight...I've taken a strong pain killer because I had 4 teeth pulled yesterday. I have to have a bridge put in....2 actually. They definately gave me good drugs to help with the pain and I hope they help me sleep alos.
It was interesting to hear all about you although I'm a little intimidated by you being a french teacher. I took french in highschool and can't speak a word of it now. Of course the nun teaching me couldn't speak it either. haha
Well I'm off to bed in hopes of staying there for at least a few hours. Have a nice Sunday. Karen
My problem with sleeping really hit last November, when I had a whole week where it was impossible to sleep. I didn't feel tired and it was all very strange. By now I am just exhausted and frustrated and just want so desperately to go back to just being "normal". I have tried many things and any spare money is spent on trying to sort this out. Its not easy when you are thinking do |I put that aside for the kids or have another session to try and sort this out. I suppose in the long term it is no good for anyone if I do not sleep so there are no real options. I have to get better!!!
I am having analytical hypno-therapy at the moment and trying to work through whatever is going on. - But it is hard work. I don't enjoy the sessions and always go in worried about what I might say or how I might react. - But there is some progress and I am beginning to fall asleep again........... sometimes. - And people tell me I can get throught this. - I do however rely on meds quite a lot, because without them i think I would have been a a looney bin ages ago. It is so nice to talk to someone who understands just how crazy lack of sleep can make you feel. -
Hope you got some sleep on Thursday. And again tonight, with any luck. I've just spent Friday night up in London with friends celebrating a mate's 50th birthday. - And we've just had a party back at our house. Everyone's just left.
I shall try to sleep now and see what the night brings. - I know the morning will bring lots of clearing up and washing up etc, but hopefully I can be bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning ready to face it all. ???!!!!!
PS I love gardening and have got a small allotment. - Tell you more next time. - Take care Speak anon Ann
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