The cool insomnia club

Here's an evil one that people love 2 cans sweetened condensed milk half a brick of bakers chocalate and a Cadbury Carmella bar ( now called fairy milk Carmella, melt the chocalate Un the milk heat through and it becomes chocalate fudge, pit some over ice cream or dip mini pretzels in it and lay to dry on wax paper or parchment paper ,great desert or snack ,if you prefer potato chips they work well also .

Thanks - but I'm still up at 3:37 in the morning

I saw there were horrible tornadoes in TN - I hope that you are ok

Yes I am ok , we are south of Nashville. 25 confirmed dead and 70+ people are missing.. I can’t wrap my head around it. Such a tragedy, looks like a war zone

Lorazepam and gaberpentin do it for me.

I slept for 4 glorious hours last night

Hope my fellow insomniacs had good nights

Fantastic Polibeth

Do you have a tornado alert ? I bought one in Florida last year , then again I also have my own weather station ,I am the very definition of nerd,by station reports to my computer my computer (a TNC is like a modem for a radio) then my radio sends it to NWS AND NHC , I have been a certidiedin SkyWarn spotter for last 30 years. We had a micro burst about 5 years ago in the summer , NWS at first denied it saying nothing showed on radar ,then they saw the damage and examined my stations data and changed there mind confirming it , in normal mode it sends data every 15 minutes if wind speed or rainfall exceeds a certain level it triggers emergency mode and sends data every 5 minutes ,I live in a crazy spot between 2 radars neither really covers the town ,but between them they can come close to knowing what's happening with my real time actual data .I measur for everything from soil conditions to solar radiation. The tornado alert measures electrical activity in the atmosphere they have been in use for about 40 years in aircraft, but they are new to the home and consumer market , it listens and learns what's "normal" activity for 30 mile area , when it detects the electrical noise that happens before a tornado it has a strobe and sounds an alarm. My catheter rep,is out of OK and loves to chat with me about meteorology and weather ,after rebuilding her house several times she has been through the wringer . The positive side of insomnia the weather can't sneak up on us !

We have a weather radio, we also have numerous APPs on our phones.

6/7 years ago we had a nasty heavy line of storms coming at us... which isn’t rare. Common occurrence in spring.

Straight lines winds hit ... The hail was coming down for 2-3 mins ? It was the size of softballs no lie ..... we suddenly felt all the air literally being sucked out of our house. My husband and I just looked at each other. I said .. we are going to die. Suddenly it was quiet.

Went outside, the ground was just white... the tornado formed right above us and less than 1/2 mile away it destroyed 3 homes, many barns and a lot of livestock died. It was middle of the day the people were at work or school so no injury or deaths.

aftermath our 2 cars were totaled, we had hundreds of holes in our roof, we had to put up new siding on 3 sides of our house , hellish job. We had a metal roof put on.

There was never a warning it spun up so fast.

My sleep is horrible again... it’s not unexpected so ......

I am sorry your sleep is horrible. I hope you can get to sleep soon. For some reason I am in this club tonight, and I didn't even have coffee today, just a cup of weak tea this morning!

I saw the footage of Tennessee. Heartbreaking.

It's unsettling, not to have any warning. It's like an earthquake.

Well we got an hour of sleep tonight. A nightmare woke us up and we've been up since...

So sorry for what's happened in Tennessee......

I had a wonderful nights sleep - finally! Hope everyone else is doing well.

Do I need to kick you out of the club ??? lol

Thanks Beth, yeah it’s just awful.. but thousands of people are just pitching in to help. They are using the fairgrounds up there to organize people so that all the areas are getting as much help as another.

I can’t imagine earthquakes. I downloaded an APP called QuakeFeed, it shows every earthquake around the world , it’s really interesting. We had 3 or 4 over a couple weeks, nothing much, like a 2.6 I think but still .... today has an interesting mix of countries.

I hope you have much better luck tonight

Thanks !

Yay for sleep !!

Last night another toss and turn , maybe a couple broken hours. I stared at the wall or at my husband sleeping away. Sigh

Maybe tonight will be a good one !

Well Im getting twitchy.. I am not even slightly tired If I snack on a xanax too early ill buzz right through any possible sleepy moments. I know that sounds odd. When I do days of no sleep my body usually wont give up the fight until 2-3 am

My husband lays down, wiggles for a minute to get comfy and asleep in a couple minutes ! it must be some kinda dark magical business? When im not sleeping for days he says " well just lay down and stop thinking " HAHAHHA hes such a funny guy

My body forced me to sleep for a couple of hours this afternoon, & I was able to do a few things I had been too tired to do. So I feel very thankful to my body. Best of luck to you, ~Christina, & all of you!

It`s almost 5:30 in the morning here. Not a wink of sleep. I`m pretty wide awake. I gave up got out of bed and just made some coffee.

I got sleep study results back and I have severe hypersomnia and the results are suggestive of narcolepsy but not definitely a diagnosis of it.

So it's possible to have insomnia and hypersomnia at the same time???

I slept really well last night. Wispy fragments of dreams is all that remains. Feeling so much better.

I went to bed at 11:15 and woke up at 1:12. Lots of coffee today. We have new neighbors behind us with a very vocal dog. Stunning dog but vocal.

Yes it can , sounds dumb but it’s possible. Any meds can also factor in. Glad you got results and now you can work with a provider to find a game plan