insomnia

“insomnia, i have it bad.
i sleep for a few hours then i am up half the night. I am so lucky I do not go into work until later in the day. if I had to get up in the AM i would never be able to keep a job.

*sigh*”

“Have you tried counting owls?”

“Do you work afternoons Mapleleaf?

I have a hard time sleeping if I have't excercised enough in a day.”

“I feel you pain Mapleleaf. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in about 2 months. I have trouble falling asleep and when I finally do (sometime around 11pm and 12am) I end up waking up around 2am - 4am half the time. Even when I do manage to sleep all night I don't feel rested.”

“Try a couple of double scotches with a fistful of barbiturates, Zac.
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“LOL..yeah drugs..worked for Anna Nicole.

Mapes, Know how you feel I have barely been getting 3 hours a night and then last night I only got an hour and a half. Okay granted the reason I cannot sleep is




Have you tried progressive relaxation and positive imaging? both are relativly simple to learn one is the relaxation of your body while breathing deep the other is making an imaginary dream up in your head. Trust me when you have to sleep you can.”

“I also have a similar sleep pattern LZ - what seems to work most times for me is to take a couple anti-histamines (generic Chlor Trimaton type, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorphenamine ) just before going to bed.”

“I have had a crash course in my own sleep disorders. ugh... really sucks.”

“diphenhydramine (think benadryl) is your friend, Mapes. I still wake up through the night, but I can go back to sleep easily. I just picked up a new background noise player last night too. The sound of falling rain is really nice, Although it had me dreaming of rivers and rain all night.”

“If you will email me I will share my ideas that work for me with you. It is a holistic appoach to what your body is lacking??”

“so I guess waking up seven to eight times a night is bad?

I think it is time to talk to a doctor :
Id rather not. Id rather do it natural but I dont think that will happen :(”

“i hear marko has a knack for putting people to sleep. just ask him about soybeans”

“Anyone research melatonin supplements?”

“http://www.melatonin.com/

The Doctor I partnered with in school took it nightly and swore by it. I haven't used it myself.”

“I use it, works”

“It is 130 am, and I am staring at the wall attempting to sleep. I rotate shifts - days to midnights. My body doesn't know when the heck it's supposed to rest. I am trying to tell it that now is sleepy time, it just doesn't listen... sigh...”

“Excedrin PM”

“That would be great, if I had any... I try not to drug myself though. There has gotta be a better method for people who work off shifts!”

“employers who schedule their employees for split shifts are cruel sadists”

“it is 2:30 *sigh*
I want to sleep!!


TV Cheaters is stupid! they need to put better crap on TV late night!”

“i'm sorry maple. i know it sucks. i worked the 1-9:30pm shift tonight and tomorrow i will work the 7am to 3:30pm shift. totally bites. i'm totally wide awake right now and i will have to force myself to lie in bed and fake it.”

“i gave up overtime because i knew i would never be up by 6:30am”

“overtime? i never get more than 15 or 20 minutes of that in a week anyway. i'm heading off to bed now. say a prayer for my great-grandma Heddy please, i placed her on the other thread. i'm so worried i'll be flying back east for another funeral.”

“on a up note, i get to at least do something while I am awake.
we are fostering
2 squirrels and 1 4 day old kitten :)

(little bastards woke me up)”

“What the heck is TV cheaters???”

“it's back.......”

“I am so sorry mapleleaf... I am at work tonight. And how does it figure that I am sleepy when at work, but when I am trying to sleep at home, it never ever happens? Geez...”

“2:00am”

“Utoh, are you going to count hours instead of sheep???”

“Everytime I try to count sheep, there's a Nigal behind each one.”

“sucks. and my throat hurts too.
bleh.”

“here we go again...”

“hey welcome to my world!!”

“I've got insomnia tonight bad. The past two weeks have been particularily poopy sleep-wise. How are the rest of you non-sleepers doing?”

“I have insomnia too, but only because I haven't been sleeping.

(OK, you can slap me now!)”

“Hi Twinks! Hi BackSlacker!

Twinks, I just posted the lovely picture of us from the Treehouse (Charlie's Angels style) on my TT album (click on my name and view the pictures album).”

“Pass the woolite.”

“Great pictures Scorch! How've you been? PS - your dog is so cute!”

“Thank ya :)

I've been good... nothing much exciting to report :( How about yourself? How's Matt?”

“Hey Miss Scorchy, how ya been?”

“Pretty good...except for the want of sleep...but it's still early.

Matt's good...the lucky bastig is fast asleep right now while I try to bore myself to sleep looking at some research”

“well let me entertain you


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“I'm a walking zombie right now, but the latte I had about an hour ago prevents me from the zzz's I crave so much!!! ARG, what was I thinking?!

BS, not too much going on, can't wait for the weekend. Really stressful week at work, especially today.”

“Yikes!”

“OMG! that is the nastiest funniest video Mapleleaf...how the hell are you?”

“Whatta pig! LMAO, love it”

“i have more...want to see?”

“sure, why not”

“yessss”