[mssumom]

I know people say that you can't die from lack of sleep but do they know how at what point you become so desperate for sleep that you will resort to anything to get some sleep and shut off your thoughts.......I just need some sleep.......and the thoughts running through my head like a demon speed train to STOP!

[sparkling]

Ugh... dunno, I have opposite problem. Everyday I do everything to stop myself from falling asleep. My record is 42 hours. I like the way I'm feeling then - all my problems just go away and I feel free and soo good... That's why I don't want to go to sleep - because I know that when I finally wake up it will all come crashing down at me.

[wanttoheal]

(((((((((((((mssumom)))))))))))))

I'm so sorry you are not sleeping well. Lack of sleep affects so much in our bodies and in our minds. I am often up several times in the night as well and then have to push to get through my day. Is it possible to get some sleeping meds to help? I hope you able to get some much needed rest soon.

[psisci]

You definitely can die from sleep deprivation. Get some meds.

amen! i was in that situation a short 6 or 8 weeks ago........get some help now..........xoxoxo pat

[mssumom]

I have Ambien 10mg stockpiled in the cabinet and Xanax and was desperate enough after already not sleeping for 2 nights that I took 40mg of Ambien early (like 8pm) hoping to just pass out.......the only thing it did was make me feel kind of sleepy and unable to follow chat much or very slowly but sleep never came. If my daughter were not still here (tonight is her last night home from college) I would have taken a whole handful for even 30 minutes sleep........I need sleep badly.

do you exercise at all? if you can, a 30 minute walk every day will do wonders for this....i know how hard it is to go walking when you're upset, but believe me......it could save you.........xoxoxo pat

[January]

Please call your Dr or pdoc and let him/her know what is happening with you. You need a med adjustment. Please don't take too many. It's too dangerous.

Jan

[SeptemberMorn]

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Lori}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Did you go to bed after you took your med? It won't work unless you let it, Hon. Otherwise, it just messes you up.

Do what exercise you can during the day, then take a warm bath, take the med, go to bed, turn off all the lights and do some relaxation exercises or meditation. Invite sleep to come to you.

[Perna]

When I have too many thoughts going on to sleep I distract myself by reading, getting involved in someone else's thoughts but that makes me tired and eventually, thinking of the book and its characters I can go to sleep. TV/movies don't quite do it for me because they do too much "visualizing" and don't make you work at the story like a book does.

[ster]

My pdoc has me on seriqel 400 mg at night. I had a very time sleeping, my theripyst contacted my pdoc started on them dont have too many nights of getting up all hours a night. I hope you find some better nights

[Numbers]

You can drink something hot before you go to sleep, just not coffee. You probably tried that already. Went down to a tea man (don't know what they are called..lol) asked for a good tea for sleeping he gave me this, and I got the recipe from him (which I'm probably not supposed to pass on, but I will anyway because I too hate not sleeping) Well anyways it helps me. And sometimes well there's nothing to do but wait until you fall asleep. sleep will come.

Tea made from:
3 parts root from Valerian
3 parts balm (melissa)
2 parts chamomile
3 parts hob
1 part linden flowers
3 part st johnswart

[mssumom]

Thanks guys for caring and for the suggestions.......I know that I should be dead asleep by now after the past few sleepless nights but my mind seems to be in overdrive. I hoped that therapy this a.m. might stop a few of the more disasterous thoughts.

Something has to give.........thank you again for all suggestions, I will try them.

{{{{{{ALL}}}}}}}}

[SeptemberMorn]

{{{{{{{{{{Lori}}}}}}}}}}}

"Rock-a-bye... and good night... dumdum, dum, ditty dum, dum..."

I hope you get that much needed sleep really soon!

[jlove973]

Camomile Tea works for me if you are going natural

[JonB]

I hope you have gotten some sleep. If you're at the point you'll do anything to keep from being awake any longer, I'd go straight to a hospital. I've been there. I went 3+ days with no sleep and would have chopped my own head off if it meant not having to be awake anymore. As it was, it took another 14 hours at the hospital before they managed to knock me out. I told them just bring me an anesthesiologist or at least a sledge hammer. Eventually, lots of drugs did it. I think once you get to a certain point even the world's longest warm bath or biggest cup of herb tea isn't going to do the trick. You need the big guns and big guns definitely require supervision. See a doc soon and sleep well.

[mssumom]

Hoping for some sleep tonight.......i can't imagine being able to function at work tomorrow at all if not......felt very slow today but seemed to get everything done.

So hopefully I will get the much needed zzzzz's tonight.......thanks to each of you for your good thoughts and suggestions. I don't know anymore what I would do without the support from my friends here.......you guys make a big difference for me.


Lori

[SeptemberMorn]

Hey, yeah!!! How could I forget?!?! The grandmother would knock me out on it when I was a kid on the first day of that time of month! It was HELL!! But I slept from the time I'd come home from school to the next morning.

You gotta make it pretty stiff, though, Lori.

i have found that nomatter how long i stay awake threw insomnia my body will just shut down and i will sleep when my body reaches a certain point or level of exhaustion, it is not something you can hold back from indefinatly. it is like a tax bill, you know its comming eventually no matter what

[Boopers]

Boy, Mellors, you are sooo right!! I have a real problem with lack of sleep and I was up all night long, night before last and last night, I just dropped from exhaustion and was out all night long!! It felt soooo good!!
Take care,
Linda

[JonB]

Unfortunately for me, I haven't found that to be true. There have been times when I thought surely, eventually, my body would give out and I would sleep - but it never happened. I just go crazy loco and wind up strapped to a bed and injected with something to knock me out. Now I get in a horrible cycle where if I don't sleep for a couple of days, I worry that I will continue not sleeping and wind up in the nuthouse and that makes me not able to sleep. So, here I am, not sleeping and starting to wonder, taking warm baths, drinking hot tea, meditating, reading War and Peace and taking every sleeping pill or possibly slightly sedating pill I've got to ward that off. I think pharmaceutical companies should start testing their sleeping pills on me. I'd be the ultimate guinea pig. Send the sleepy vibes this way too please....

[mssumom]

You surely don't want any from me JonB........I think at just before 3am I've lost any and all hope of sleeping and have to do something because I'm losing my mind (and we al know there wasn't that much left to go around!) Take care of ya, and hope that changes will come for you and sleep with it......

Lori

[sujunew]

How ironic- after a long time away from PC I come back and this topic is going... So sorry to hear about your sleep probs mssumom. After I had my 3rd child I was so sleep deprived that I worked out how long each of my tabs would sedate me for, how many hours I felt I needed to sleep then took all the tabs I felt I needed. I spent the next 4 mths in hospital... PLEASE get help before you resort to desperate measures. The irony I was referring to before is that 2 weeks ago I got my eldest daughter back into my full-time care (yay as my ex was supposed to be getting the full time custody; circumstances changed and 5.30pm Fri night I was told she was in my permanent care), I have had both girls with me full time for the past 2 weeks incl spending a week with my parents (diff routine, 1000km from home, sick child (up from 12am-5.30am one night), sleepless nights where kids would finally go to sleep about 10/11pm, then be awake by 6am with youngest (2 1/2) usually waking at least 1x a night)and realised 2 days ago I am totally sleep deproved and in danger of crashing again. Oldest is very special needs- (can't be looked after unless carer fully medically trained) and me on my own; CPS said they would put in every support they could to help me, I ring on Friday to ask for someone to come into the home and watch the kids while I take a nap and I am still waiting for the reply... 5 weeks of school holidays still to go...
PLEASE SEND SLEEPY VIBES THIS WAY TOO
But like I said before I hijacked your posts mssumom please get any help you can before the desperation takes over and something happens that could harm you. I am seeking help (when ppl bother to return ph msgs lol) and I wish you (and Jon) all the best

[StargazerLily]

seems as this is starting to catch. everybody watch out, this thread is contagious.

[mssumom]

I apologize because it seems that this thread did get alittle contagious as Lily said and I never meant it to..........I took several things last night to sleep and did in fact sleep for a couple of hours but it should have had me still knocked out and since I can no longer function I am taking even double maybe more what I took a few hours ago and sleep for ever, one way or the other.

goodnight to all..........bye.
Lori