Insomnia is driving me crazy

[Enchanted]

Originally Posted by Sandraoh40

I’ve never had insomnia as such, but a few years ago I was struggling to get to sleep and sleep all night.
I tried Phenergen but it made me feel hungover the next day so stopped that straight away.
My mum had got me a sleep mask for when we came back our holidays on overnight flights so I thought I would give that a go.
What a game changer. I now always use a sleep mask and earplugs. I try to get to bed at a really decent time as I like an hour or so on my iPad then get my light out no later than 10:30. I’m up at about 6 ish.
I’m always up twice during the night for the loo but I’m so used to it now I’m straight back to sleep 99% of the time.
Looking back I think it was just my body starting to change as I was getting older.

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I found that taking Phenergan at teatime really helped. No more groggy feeling in the morning.

[HFJohnson]

Originally Posted by munmun

I really sorry to read you are going through this. Having been a very poor sleeper for many, many years I believe I have come to terms and made peace with myself over my poor sleeping. Every night I have long periods of insomnia and always wake probably every hour when I do sleep.

I now simply accept that this is my sleep pattern, when I am awake I ask myself if I would rather be in bed awake or get up, mostly I stay in bed but there are times I just get up. For me it's important to not get upset or concerned with my lack of sleep as it makes it worse. I do try some yoga breathing or some relaxation, it seldom helps but does keep me calm and not stressed.

I can understand that people who are used to sleeping long periods find insomnia stressful but try if possible to just relax (I appreciate the steroids make that difficult)

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I pretty much agree with all of this. I had terrible insomnia a couple of years ago which I completed stressed out about and tried so many things to fix it. All of that just made it worse as I was just over thinking it. I've now stopped worrying about it and while I'm not a brilliant sleeper it's way better than it was and if I have a bad night I just shrug my shoulders and move on.

Hormones can play a part though so if you are in your 40s you could well be peri menopausal and should start thinking about or researching HRT.

Also, make sure you have a good bedtime routine, eg no phone/screens for at least an hour before you try to go to sleep.

[Sandraoh40]

Originally Posted by Enchanted

I found that taking Phenergan at teatime really helped. No more groggy feeling in the morning.

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It never even dawned on me to take it earlier. 😊

[YLL]

Originally Posted by Sandraoh40

It never even dawned on me to take it earlier. 😊

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I have no groggy feelings after taking Phenergan, personally.

[cartoonp]

Originally Posted by TC Devon

Hello
I’m having random bouts of insomnia. Last night I could not get to sleep. Even resorted to my daughters melatonin. I ended up with one hours sleep that included my 8 yo waking me for a hug!
Exhaustion got so bad I had quite bad chest pains.

Today I had to teach all day. It was not fun. I was nt on the ball. I made stupid mistakes in my teaching.

Does anyone else suffer, what do you take/do? I think it’s worse when I have my period. I do get quite low moods at these periods. It’s also worse when my husband is on nights. I’m on steroid tablets again (covid has destroyed my lungs) but I take them so early in the morning they should not be keeping me awake all night.

Frantically trying to work out the trigger.

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Hi I have said this many times I suffer from this for many years and it not got better I sleep max 3 hours at a time I wake up do things iPad read ect then I try and sleep I find if you bizzy during the day then it helps you need to make yourself tied so that you want to sleep.

[Wizzyanne]

I use boots Sleepeaze tablets when I have insomnia.
They’re brilliant, always get a good nights sleep on them, although can feel a bit groggy the next day sometimes.
Worth it though.