Can't Sleep
#42
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Maryland
Posts: 1,148
I have chronic insomnia and I blame it on all the years I worked night shift (11PM to 7AM or 7PM to 7AM). Am a slug all day but when the sun goes down I come alive and am up til 3 or 4AM. Have tried benedryl, tylenol PM, melantonin and prescription drugs like ambien and trazodone. Nothing has worked. I cannot live like regular people...so, I gave up trying.
I get up when I get up and if I need a mid-day nap so be it.
That having been said, I get along very nicely now with 3 or 4 hrs of sleep at night and a 2-3 hr nap.
I get up when I get up and if I need a mid-day nap so be it.
That having been said, I get along very nicely now with 3 or 4 hrs of sleep at night and a 2-3 hr nap.
#46
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: west allis, wisconsin
Posts: 407
when i can't sleep, i give myself an hour to get there. if that does not happen within an hour, i get up and do something productive. i can't stand wasting time doing nothing. usually i sew. when my kids were younger and lived at home, they would get up in the morning and i'd have a whole project done. they were always quite impressed!
#48
Originally Posted by jemma
i find myself here
i used to sew, but since i moved my studio upstairs next to dd room, that is no longer an option, she's a light sleeper...
but, she is hopefully going AWAY to college in the fall, so i can sew all night.
#49
I pretend to play my favorite golf course...AND every shot is perfect!!ha ha.. If that doesn't work I play 18. I say the Lord's prayer or cournt backwards from 100... Sometimes I can put an entire quilt together..
#50
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 492
The main thing I do is put Lavendar scented hand cream or body cream on. Lavender pus me to sleep rather quickly. Then I count animals, not sheep. I do not have any sheep, but have a horse, a steer, 13 parrots, 5 dogs, several cats mostly barn cats, chickens, and ducks. Oh forgot the 2 pot belly pigs and the 4 pygmy goats. So if I count by name (chickens and ducks do not have names) I usually fall asleep before I get to the end. But it probably is the lavender that does me in for the rest of the night. I keep the creams on the bedside table.
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