Re: Near Death Experience?/Sleeping LONG

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For some reason, I didn't see the original e-mail. What I gleaned from

this reminded me what happened the yesterday.

I was napping on the sofa in the LR. I was zonked - as I always am at

that time of day. I usually sleep on my side. I think I had a dream

where I was laying on the sofa, with my arms crossed on my chest and I

was awake and I couldn't move. I started to panic, reaching for the

phone on the coffee table near by, but I couldn't move. I then woke

up. My heart was racing and I was scared out of my wits! I eventually

felt better. I think I dozed off for about 30 minutes more of sleep

before I was able to get up and make dinner.

That night, I was afraid to fall asleep, for fear that the same thing

would happen and I would die (I live alone). I eventually calmed down

and went to sleep with no trouble, but I didn't sleep well. I tossed

and turned.

Has anyone ever changed their bed to help in their sleeping? I slept on

a water bed for 20 years. After having FMS and CFS, going to sleep at

night was never a problem. No matter how much pain I was in, I would be

able to sink into my waterbed - with a mattress with support (not a full

motion mattress) and fall asleep with little trouble. That is, until

last year.

I moved into a different apartment and the room I used as my bedroom was

too small for the queen size water bed I had. First, I slept on an air

mattress, but it wasn't a really good one and the air came out of it at

night. I then made the mistake of trading with my daughter and her

fiance. They had a mattress and box spring and they swapped it for my

water bed. BIG MISTAKE. I have had more pain and restless sleep in

the p ast year than when I was first diagnosed. I don't want to get the

water bed back, but would like to get a soft sider mattress, where is

like a regular mattress on the outside, but has a water mattress inside

or has the tubes you fill with water (that would be so much easier for

me right now). Well, as we all share this problem, I just don't have

the $$ for it. So in the meantime, I suffer each and every night I go

to bed. I've taken to staying up late, dreading going to bed, but when

I get less sleep intentionally, I feel even worse (if that is even

possible) I have a 4 " egg crate mattress pad on it, but it really

doesn't help.

What do you all sleep on? Has anyone tried the " cuddle ewe " mattress

pad, made from lambs wool? I've heard great things about it, but it is

very costly.

Koala-t hugs,

Cathy

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I am a waterbed afficianado... had a hiatus of a couple of years, and

couldn't function without it...

Kit

Rochester, NY

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I am a waterbed afficianado... had a hiatus of a couple of years, and

couldn't function without it...

Kit

Rochester, NY

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[Guest guest]

I am a waterbed afficianado... had a hiatus of a couple of years, and

couldn't function without it...

Kit

Rochester, NY

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