thequiltmama

I tend to be really tired and go to bed at 9:30pm or so and sleep so hard that I wake up at 2am and can't sleep anymore because my brain is running full blast. Worrying about all the things I need to get done. So I lay in bed until 5:30am until the alarm goes off. By then my tummy is rumbling. No fun. But one trick I have taught myself is that I repeat over and over one of the kids songs I had stuck in my head all day in my head so I can't think. I just let it flow. Even if it only to sing "spongbob squarepants" over and over and over, just those 2 words. Sounds silly and it is really annoying but it seems to help my brain from not going into thinking mode. :)

thequiltmama

Oh, and wether I get 5 hours or 9 hours I always wake up sooo tired. Whats up with that???

MrsM

This year has been one for sleepless nights. I never know weather I will be able to sleep that night or not. Some nights I feel I just fell off when I am jerked wide awake. I get up some nights others I try to fall back to sleep. Feel like I am in a strangers body all of a sudden. Trying to cope :roll:

Jill

I always slept like a baby until I reached 55. The last seven years have been horrible. I've followed all the "rules" --no caffeine, going to bed at the same time every night and all the rest--to no avail. The thing is I can't say I'm really worrying about anything, I'm just wide awake. I tried sleep meds but they left me with feeing drowsy far too long the next day. So I finally settled on going to bed when I was tired, and if I fell asleep fine, and if not, I get up and sew or do whatever I can without waking up DH. It's no fun that's for sure, but I have not found a solution that works for me.

Scissor Queen

I'm in the "goes to sleep but wakes up waaaaaaaaaay too early" group. If I wake up early enough I'll go back to bed after a couple of hours and get a decent nap but if I don't have time to take the nap before 10 am or so then I can't take one or it messes up that night's sleep. Mostly I'm tired all the time.

loriea

I had this problem until I was down to about 90 minutes a night of sleep. I fell asleep driving to work one morning and my dr. decided I needed meds to sleep. I now know what a good night sleep feels like.

willferg

I've started taking melatonin recently. I've given to my daughter for years because she has a really hard time falling asleep. Me, I'm out when my head hits the pillow, but then I wake up at 2:00 or 3:00 and I'm awake for hours.

Taking melatonin makes me sleep a little deeper...when I wake up, it's easier to drift back to sleep and I don't tend to come awake.

A couple of doctors recommended melatonin for my daughter. You can get it just about anywhere these days. It comes usually in 3mg, and that's what I take. It's not addictive, either...

cinnya

Me and you are in the same boat :thumbdown: except that I am still working.
I have found what helps is a background noise in my bedroom. I use a small fan,which rattles and bangs :-D .Because it is a consistent noise it puts me to sleep .
there are a lot of days though when I run on 2 to 3 hours sleep :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

nycquilter

I have never slept well but recently learned that the ticker tape that keeps me awake can be turned off. I now sleep with a pad and pen right by my bedside. So if I wake and am thinking or worrying about something, I write it on the pad and can then go to sleep without worryign that I won't remember when I wake up. So, I still wake up but now fall back to sleep faster. It's a start, right? and I sleep better without trying to remember eight or nine things...

BRenea

I have bouts of insomnia...I used to sleep really well until I started taking prednisone. I was really wired on that stuff, and even though I've been off of it for a couple of years it destroyed my sleep pattern! I finally just crash from exhaustion...then the cycle starts over again!