Unfortunately, the answer is yes.....it was the worse the last few month's of Destiny's life.....I would doze off at the computer so I could be awake for her the moment I heard her mostly trying to get up from where she was laying......didn't realize just how much I was awake during those months until now when I get tired & I go to sleep. But there are times when I have a project that I am working on or a gift I need to get finished that I end up staying up all night.

Sometimes I get involved cleaning or organizing something in my house & keep going until I'm finished & that's usually when I look out the window & see the sun is shining.

Avoiding nightmares at times when they hit like dealing with issues with stbxh........keeps me up all night also & no better place to distract myself than on the internet & obviously, that's mostly on PC along with the other research I enjoy doing on it.

The gotcha on the all nighters was that I ended up going to my pain specialist after a long stretch of sleepless nights & days & my BP was so high that he wanted me to go to the ER (I didn't go.....but probably should have)......that was the appointment when I told him what a difficult time I was having with sleep.....his initial comment was that having a hard time sleeping shouldn't effect your BP that much.....when I explained that it wasn't just a difficult time sleeping but NOT sleeping at all......he decided to prescribe temazapam....it really helps when I take it.

Sleeping more has brought down my BP a lot because I don't want to take any meds for it if I don't have to. When my weight was so low with the anorexia 6+ years ago, my blood pressure was so low.....my weight is just at the good place right now.....so it's hard for me to grasp the possibility that my blood pressure could be high.

Lack of sleep & high blood pressure go together though. Now that I'm sleeping better, my blood pressure has gone down without the use of meds.