Re: help with insomnia - me too!!

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>>its a vicious circle. I am not depressed, stressed, or on

>>medication, so > I dont know why I am suffereing from this.

Anyone else - yes, me!

The more I have bad nights, the more I am terrified of getting them,

and the less I manage to relax. I'll usually go to sleep in the

evening, but wake up when DH comes to bed a few hours later, and then

I get terrified that DS will wake up (still in our room due to lack

of rooms) or terrified that DH will start snoring or of getting too

awake - which gets the adrenalin pumping and makes it impossible to

get back to sleep at all.

It's not unusual for me to be awake from say 1 to 3.30 or 3 to 5, or

to not be able to go back to sleeping in the morning (after DS'

morning bottle) even if everyone else has.

It's crazy - I mean, they all keep me awake so much anyway that it's

mad not to sleep when they are all asleep - but perhaps that's the

reason - I am just lying there waiting for another baby tummy ache,

or toddler nightmare, or husbandly snore, or the milkman, or whatever.

I shall now read all the replies for some good ideas... don't want to

use any drugs but did by some homeopathic last week in desperation

which I haven't tried yet...

Karina

(Mind you, I got two wonderful nights at my girlie weekend, so

feeling more refreshed than for many years... so obviously I did

manage to relax knowing that the babes and DH were far away (or it

could have been the many, many glasses of red wine).

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 23/09/2001 22:27:46 GMT Daylight Time, kbholm@...

writes:

> It's not unusual for me to be awake from say 1 to 3.30 or 3 to 5, or

> to not be able to go back to sleeping in the morning (after DS'

> morning bottle) even if everyone else has.

>

> Karina,

>

> Glad I am not the only one, but also sorry to hear you have the same thing

> IYKWIM!

>

> Its getting worse as DH keeps saying he will sleep in the spare room, but

> " this is the last night " , and then I spend the whole next day worrying

> about the night to come, and by the time I go to bed, I am high on

> adrenalin, and sleep is the last thing i can get! I keep putting him off,

> by saying that I want to watch a film in bed (as I know he wont want to

> sleep with me!) so he will make the choice to sleep elsewhere, and I am off

> the hook!

>

> He has suggested hypnosis, and learning relaxation techniques, so will look

> into that next!

>

> Let me know what works for you!

>

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