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[Julesgettingthere]

Hi, Jules here - anyone still awake ?

Cant sleep - so fed up with it.

[Nutkin33]

Oh shame. I wake up a lot in the night, but usually get back to sleep in 5-10 mins.

I am trying Melatonin, 10mg, but it either is not working, or maybe I have to take it a few weeks before it really kicks in!

I hope you manage to have a good sleep tonite! 😉😀

[sporan]

Hi Jules,

Yes I was awake 7 hours ago ( aroud 2 am) and also at midnight and again at 4 am and again at 5:30 am then got up at 6 am.

Fortunately this only happens roughly every other night or until I'm so tired I virtually black out from exhaustion.

Gets really wearing and draining so my comiserations I know how it feels, at least in part.

I don't fire up the computer at that time because it tends to wake me even more so don't see posts till later in morning.

Take care

Sporan

[StrawberryCream]

Hi Jules

I can totally identify with this problem too! Like Sporan I don't turn any screens on and try to stay in bed with everything conducive to sleep in the hope I will drop off again. However, I have to say that doesn't happen very often and like you I spend much of my time very sleep deprived which makes every other BI problems much more worse and difficult to cope with.

I have just posted a chunk of info from an article offering some explanation of sleep problems post abi. Take a look it may be of interest.

[coatpin]

I have trouble sleeping a lot of the times, makes you feel wrecked the next day, what i used to do was bake some cakes or biscuits, or watch taped recorded stuff I missed on the box, make a nice cuppa, this way I would enjoy my times,,, of waking.

If it becomes that you cant drive coz your so nackard, concentration willbe crap. work suffers. Time to get a sleep study done, ask gp for this to be done.

But I found that i was alergic to coffee, i was more sensitive to it than other people, just one cup of Real coffee, would keep me awake till 4am in the morning. Then I looked at the food I eat, and found I was alergic to white bread, pasta, pastry and sugar.

Keep to non processed foods, Im wide awake, more energy (was sleeping too much and no energy) not woolly headed anymore and!!! Im loosing weight. No cal counting, eat what I feel I need, lost 9 pounds and counting. Joined the gym too, now I can swim none stop for up to 2 hours. As Ive got more energy Im loosing weight naturally. No sweets, no processed food. clean eating. Guess what,,, sleeping deeper, only wake up one time in the night. just for the loo. Sometimes sleep through the night. Yeh sounds funny im 55 so this has been going on for years. Because i sleep better, I feel better.

change milk to almond milk, or soya, tasks like custard in coffee, quite nice, but dont need to add sugar.

You find if you eat chocolate your body craves sugar,,, so you would eat like a demented cow, anything sweet,, so cut it out gradually. But Im determined to this as a life change, I dont want to waste my life feeling so nackard falling asleep all the time. Now as soon as I eat bread, or something with sugar,, I fall asleep and the next day Im wooly headed and have trouble staying awake, lol so I know which foods is the problem.

Its called clean eating, its worth a try!!

Good luck

[cat3]

Hi Jules. I usually stay awake 'til 2am in an effort to wear myself out as putting out the light at or before midnight always results in tossing & turning and switching it on again at 2-3am anyway.

I have so many days where I'm on auto-pilot and bouncing against the walls with exhaustion but have never found a solution. I take a whole cocktail of sleepers & tranquilisers and other stuff but nothing works, but I never sleep during the day.

What really p+sses me off is when people say 'Oh you HAVE actually slept ; you just don't remember doing it. I know whether or not I've spent the night looking at the clock every 30mins/gazing through the window/wandering about etc., and I know how different I feel during the day if I DO sleep.

If I find a solution Jules, you'll be the first to know. xx

[Julesgettingthere in reply to cat3]

Are you there Cat ?

Jules

[cat3 in reply to Julesgettingthere]

I am now Jules.

[Julesgettingthere]

Just wanted to say Cat that when I 'chat' to people and they find the same things in life, it is a comfort.

You wrote that no tablets seem to make you sleep - also that people do say 'you do sleep, you just dont remember'. Hit a cord when you talked about repeated watching the hours ticking pass.

I love all animals, but when i have a night like this I really hate it when I can hear the birds starting to sing. Poor little things, sorry.

Another that really upsets me is when my husband asks me continually 'what are you doing today' as he goes to work. I am trying to work from home...

Anyway, thank you Cat.

Better tomorrow.

Jules

[cat3]

I find that earplugs (I use the wax ones from Boots) are a godsend when I'm desperate not to be disturbed. There are many times I've been drifting off to sleep after another bad night 'til a pigeon in the tree outside goes hell-bent with the coo-cooing.

Hope you get at least a few hours tonight Jules ................... and me too ! xx

[Julesgettingthere in reply to cat3]

yep i use ear plus too - funny nobody from the hospitals suggests it.

I have learnt that when your brain doesn't function quite the same after an accident, it is you that needs to figure out what will get you through. Just beginning to wake up a little to it.

Hope you have a good sleep tonight also.

Jules