Groo
October 17, 2007 by piereth
Awful night’s sleep. The doctors want me to come off the pills, and it’s a struggle. I didn’t have one the night before last, and slept ok, but I had one last night and had an atrocious night, simply horrible. I’m just going to go cold turkey, bollocks to it.
Mouse also had an interesting night. At dead on 5am we heard him say, ‘Huh! Daddy, DADDY!’ and giggling. So that was it for him sleep-wise too. D took him downstairs for a milk and some Fireman Sam, and I went back into a fitful sleep and had a nightmare. Argh!
Which pills honey? Probably a good idea to come off them, but maybe find a herbal alternative, as a plan B if sleep won’t come?
Bad dreams suck.
Tried herbals, tried meditation, tried drink!, tried less strong drugs, tried reading Barbara Taylor Bradford. Nada.
The problem isn’t getting to sleep, it’s that I wake up like I’ve been slapped in the face somewhere between 3am and 3.30am and I can’t get back to sleep. wah!
I had the same problem. For me, it’s hormones. It helped me to make sure that I was eating properly - good breakfast in the morning, avoided sugar, only one cup of coffee in the morning, lots of water. Kind of irritated me that my doctor was right. Why oh why doesn’t the doctor ever prescribe chocolate? I hate it that they’re right.
I still get insomnia every once in a while - usually when it’s that time of the month - and I wake up at 4:11 every day. How does my brain know it’s 4:11?
Dr. Christine Northrup was on Oprah the other day (Oprah kind of bugs me, but this was a good show) and she had some good advice as well. Check out Oprah’s website.
I hope you get some sleep.
Thank you so much, Jenny, I’ll check that Oprah out! She’s a rum broad, but a good’un.
Actually, I was starting to feel a bit like the guy in Stephen King’s book, ‘Insomnia’. He was being woken up progressively earlier in the morning because some transdimensional beings were trying to… yes. well. Now you see my problem!
I think I’ve just got into a bad habit since the baby’s been born, and I snap awake at the time he was most likely to need feeding.
Good to see you on the boards!
Ah yes … I think my insomnia started after my first baby was born as well.
I’ve never read “Insomnia” - but I love Stephen King! I may just have to pick up that book! A good scary book sounds like just the thing since Halloween is around the corner!
It’s great. Actually, my favourite of his is Bag of Bones, with Salems Lot a close second. Amazing writer. People deride him, I think, because he’s written so much… and now his son is publishing, under the name Joe Hill, ‘Heart Shaped Box’, have you read that one?
For years I had decent luck counting backwards by various multiples. (700, 687, 674, 661, 648, etc.) It took my mind off stuff and distracted me, tedioulsy. But it hasn’t worked as well lately.
Otherwise getting up and reading.
But lately I’ve tried making friends with my insomnia. It helps if I tell myself I’m going to get up and blog or some such, because then i can procrastinate and daydream. (What is daydreaming called at night?) And I’ve decided I kind of like it. I feel a bit better about it, then, and sometimes even conk out again …
I see your point, Ombudsben, and it’s a good one - I had been thinking about all the things I could be doing with the time and hadn’t thought of blogging - ! I can’t count well enough forwards to count backwards in multiples, I think that must be what Einstein did when he couldn’t sleep…