Don't you people ever sleep?????

[billt]

Don't think I've had a decent night's sleep in close to a year. Life and women inparticular REALLY have a way of f#$&ing with I have found a way to cope however, a strict diet of Ambien and Red Bull.

I've had insomnia for the last 25 years. I usually have no trouble falling asleep. Mel usually uses an ice pack on my back just before bed, and that relaxes me to where I fall asleep quickly. But after about 4 hours I wake up and have a hell of a time after that. I used Amitriptyline for years, but stopped taking it because it started having no effect one way or the other. My doctor has given me Ambien and Lunesta, but  the latter makes everything you eat taste like crap, and the other is addictive, or can be. No matter what, nothing seems to work.  Bill T.

[twyacht]

Before the fancy commercials with Luna Moths gently flying as we go to the Land Of Nod, or so called "sleep aids" had folks waking up two blocks away at a drive thru,  there was a drug called Seconal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secobarbital

Secobarbital Sodium (marketed by Eli Lilly and Company, and subsequently by other companies as described below, under the brand name Seconal) is a barbiturate derivative drug that was first synthesized in 1928. It possesses anaesthetic, anticonvulsant, sedative and hypnotic properties. In the United Kingdom, it was known as Quinalbarbitone.

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It also knocked one's a** out for a day and a half. Taken on Friday Night, you wake up Sunday morning, hungry as hell, having to piss like a race horse, and fully rested.

No wandering, luna moths, or other side effects,......your out. Abused in the 60's and 70's, it is almost impossible to get.

Beats the hell out of Tylenol PM, or Ambien...

 Most nights, I "sleep" 4-6 hours, than lay in a twilight state the rest of the night, wondering if that was my cat or a "zombie" at the glass sliding door making that noise.

Than I have to go investigate, make my rounds, turn on the news, check the web, try to get just "one more hour" of sleep, tell myself I need a vacation.

Amazing the studies that correlate America's sleep deprived population.

[billt]

Most nights, I "sleep" 4-6 hours, than lay in a twilight state the rest of the night.

That's my situation exactly. We even spent 5 1/2 grand on a Tempurpedic Mattress last year. It helped a lot, but I still wake up after a few hours.  Bill T.

[Pathfinder]

Sleep?  Heard of it.  Haven't had any in about a week.  Hour or two here and there.  To many worries.

That ain't doing your ticker any good, Haz. Get some sleep - there is nothing in this life worth losing sleep over. OTOH, you may believe like Warren Zevon - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead!

Over the past 2 years, after getting laid off in June '09,. I would wake up anywhere from 2 to 4AM and usually not be able to get back to sleep. Sometimes I could watch TV until 5 or 6 and then fall asleep again. But not always. Here I thought it was due to getting laid off and having money worries, what with 4 other mouths to feed - and not a damn one of them will get a job! OK, the 4-year old is exempt, but . . . .

/rant

Here I thought it was me, and it turns out just to be a geezer thing. Damn!   

[thomas572]

Just changed my batteries good to go. Sleep please explain what is sleep?? Oh that wierd phenomena that happens while whatching wings on the discovery network.

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[PegLeg45]

So it's almost noon EST, and I'm probably the only one awake?   

Nope.
After 10 here and still up.
Had to go get new tires on my truck this afternoon and didn't get back until after 8 (whole other story).
No nap during the day either.
Might actually sleep tonight.

 

[Badgersmilk]

I've had insomnia for the last 25 years. I usually have no trouble falling asleep. Mel usually uses an ice pack on my back just before bed, and that relaxes me to where I fall asleep quickly. But after about 4 hours I wake up and have a hell of a time after that. I used Amitriptyline for years, but stopped taking it because it started having no effect one way or the other. My doctor has given me Ambien and Lunesta, but  the latter makes everything you eat taste like crap, and the other is addictive, or can be. No matter what, nothing seems to work.  Bill T.

Sleep deprived, and a house full of guns...  The devils playground! 

OR, How vigilantie movies are spawned. 

[Big Frank]

I have trouble sleeping too but since I retired I just lay in bed all day trying to get back to sleep. I have apnea too and can't wear my mask. It feels like I'm suffocating. I keep thinking that I'll try it again and see if I can sleep better.

[Hazcat]

So where are y'all?  It's only 2:24!  If'n things go right, in another drink or two I'll be able to pass out for 3 hours or so and then it all starts again.

[Solus]

Apnea is a serious condition.  Get used tot he mask or find a setup you can use.

My sleep test showed I was waking up 82 times an hour.  I would fall asleep anytime I wasn't focused on something...in a meeting if I was not speaking...on the john....driving in a traffic jam.    I had NO trouble falling asleep, just didn't stay that way for very long.

When I first started using the device (I didn't like masks so have always use the nasal pillow type) I would dream that I was swimming upstream against the flow.  Took a little while to get used to it, bit now I dread thinking of sleeping without it.  Waking up gasping for breath with your heart racing is terrifying.  If the power is out, I'll sit up all night rather than try to sleep.

After using it, I would sleep through the night, or if I did wake up it was due to an arm or leg getting sore from being in the same position for hours.  Or I'd roll over and the tubing would become tangled and wake me.  I  have since found devices to manage the tubing so it is not a problem. 

If you have the problem, do what it takes to adapt to the device.  If not, it WILL kill you.