Re: insomnia last night

[Guest guest]

Learn how to meditate if you don't do it already. It's very helpful

for sleep issues in addition to a wealth of other benefits.

Sierra

>

> hi all,

>

> Yesterday was so busy and stressful I was too tired to sleep. At

9pm I

> took my sleep meds, Benadryl, Soma, Elavil, and Darvocet N. Went to

bed

> about 10:30 since I have to take the stupid stomach pill. At 1am I

was

> still awake so I took another Benadry and Darvocet. That didn't

help. I

> read somewhere that if I can't sleep to get up and do something

else.

> About 2am I got up and paced the bedroom floor for 2 hrs. No help.

So I

> thought maybe the room was too warm and turned on the ceiling fan

and

> turned off my electric blanket. Stayed that way till I chilled and

> turned fan off and blanket back on. Must of finally fell asleep

about

> 5am. Cats woke me at 6:30 and the alarm went off at 7am. Now I feel

> crappy, too. Supposed to take yoga but don't feel up to it.

> Can anyone give me advice what to do in this situation? Usually my

> sleep meds work good.

>

> Debbie L

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Sierra,

I know how to meditate but didn't. Tried corpus pose and other easy

poses. Also prayed every few hrs.

Debbie L

> >

> > hi all,

> >

> > Yesterday was so busy and stressful I was too tired to sleep. At

> 9pm I

> > took my sleep meds, Benadryl, Soma, Elavil, and Darvocet N. Went

to

> bed

> > about 10:30 since I have to take the stupid stomach pill. At 1am

I

> was

> > still awake so I took another Benadry and Darvocet. That didn't

> help. I

> > read somewhere that if I can't sleep to get up and do something

> else.

> > About 2am I got up and paced the bedroom floor for 2 hrs. No

help.

> So I

> > thought maybe the room was too warm and turned on the ceiling fan

> and

> > turned off my electric blanket. Stayed that way till I chilled

and

> > turned fan off and blanket back on. Must of finally fell asleep

> about

> > 5am. Cats woke me at 6:30 and the alarm went off at 7am. Now I

feel

> > crappy, too. Supposed to take yoga but don't feel up to it.

> > Can anyone give me advice what to do in this situation? Usually

my

> > sleep meds work good.

> >

> > Debbie L

> >

>

[Guest guest]

> I take Mirapex for Restless Leg,>>>

>

Does it have any side effects?

I had RL when I decreased my prednisone.

I could have been a great punter!

I went up in dosage and it went away.

Very frustrating syndrome!

Pris

[Guest guest]

I had to laugh at a comment about 'moving around at night'. The last time I

needed new sheets for my bed it was because the current ones were threadbare,

just where my feet rested. The rest of the sheet was still fine !

I take Mirapex for Restless Leg, and I got it from my PC. It too works great,

and I only take it 'as needed', it's been about a month since I last took any.

Patsy

El Mirage, AZ

DX 2005 Stage 1 PBC

AIH/SLE/RA/COPD

Just a woman of letters....

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It's just after 8 PM and I just took my evening pills, Restoril, Xanax, and

Amitriptyline. At bedtime, 10:15, I'll take half a Soma or sometimes a whole

one, and I still won't go to sleep until after 11 PM. More than 60 years and

I still haven't found the key to going to sleep. This is unlike Betty. She

can go to sleep walking to the bedroom, well almost. Sometimes I wish I had

a mild case of narcolepsy.

Dennis in Eastexas

" It's not Rocket Surgery "

[ ] Re: insomnia last night

>I don't know what the " suggested " methods are in a case like this,

> but the only thing that I've found that makes sense for me is to get

> up and do something constructive. I might work on the computer, read

> something (preferably technical and boring<g>) or sort photographs.

> Sometimes I'm up for a couple of hours before I get sleepy enough to

> fall asleep, but at least I'm not fretting about NOT sleeping (which,

> I think, adds to the problem) and I feel good about getting something

> constructive done with my time. That way, if I DO need to take a

> longer nap than usual the following day, (I usually need to take a

> 1/2 -1 hr nap no matter what) I feel like I've already paid my dues

> for the time my nap takes!<g>

>

>

>

>

>>

>> hi all,

>>

>> Yesterday was so busy and stressful I was too tired to sleep. At

> 9pm I

>> took my sleep meds, Benadryl, Soma, Elavil, and Darvocet N. Went to

> bed

>> about 10:30 since I have to take the stupid stomach pill. At 1am I

> was

>> still awake so I took another Benadry and Darvocet. That didn't

> help. I

>> read somewhere that if I can't sleep to get up and do something

> else.

>> About 2am I got up and paced the bedroom floor for 2 hrs. No help.

> So I

>> thought maybe the room was too warm and turned on the ceiling fan

> and

>> turned off my electric blanket. Stayed that way till I chilled and

>> turned fan off and blanket back on. Must of finally fell asleep

> about

>> 5am. Cats woke me at 6:30 and the alarm went off at 7am. Now I feel

>> crappy, too. Supposed to take yoga but don't feel up to it.

>> Can anyone give me advice what to do in this situation? Usually my

>> sleep meds work good.

>>

>> Debbie L

[Guest guest]

>

> I do just the opposite: I just lie there and rest my eyes, and I

guess

> my body, too. I take OTC sleeping pills, but sometimes they don't

work.

> My problem is that I can't shut my mind off.

That's why I get up... Even if I get more awake for a while, when I lie

in bed with my mind buzzing in circles, I'm sure not getting any sleep,

and I don't think I'm even getting meaningful rest. At least if I'm

sitting in a recliner, reading a book, my BODY is resting.<g>

If I can't fall asleep relatively quickly, I probably am not going to

fall asleep at all. But all people are different!