How silly! im so exhausted, and yet, I cant seem to drop off till the wee hours of the AM.

The room is dark, I am not watching TV. I meditate, the house is quiet. There is just no excuse to not be able to go. Im very tired, my eyes are closing on me, yet I get to the edge and cant fall off.

I feel sort of like that now. My sister has been here for a visit and even though she is gone now I'm still in "visitor mode" and can't relax. I hate that feeling of being so tired all you want to do is go to bed but once you do you just lie there wide awake.

I hope you get some sleep.

I have been having trouble sleeping myself. I even take meds that make me sleepy and they have been failing me. Im starting to think that insomnia is MS related.... no matter what my neuro says All my friends with MS say they also suffer from insomnia. MS sux

Sorry to hear this, Dej...I sometimes fall asleep in my cozy chair-then crawl up to bed and wham! The thinking machine gets going & I lie awake for hours...even tho I'm exhausted. I don't want to get hooked on sleeping pills, so I just let the night slip away...
Maybe we're napping too much during the day & our schedules are upside down...

That's your problem, Dej, IMHO. I can't go to sleep without the TV on. I put it on low and watch something interesting. The more I try to stay awake and watch it, I fall asleep..

Go with the flow..........

I have to have some sort of soft background noise, too. I put my TV on the music channel called Soundscapes. It's very relaxing instrumental music and it puts me right out.

I've been an insomniac since age 11. I have found that certain foods can trigger sleep. Complex carbs like whole grain cereals, breads & things like a salad with flax seed or wheat germ (tastes like nuts) can help induce sleep.

You can ask your PCP for a list of foods that might help. I usually try to shut off the t.v. early & read after eating my sleep "snack." You should try to do the snack about two hours before you are going to try to sleep. Make sure there aren't any distractions (ticking clock, snoring DH, or pesky cat/dog). Sleep specialists say that we should remove digital clocks from the bedroom, since the inclination is to constantly check to see what time it is stimulates the brain (a kickstart to wakefullness).

Hope this helps!

I don't know why but when I am having one of those nights it helps to move my pillow to the end of the bed. I have a spare quilt and I just push my covers aside and cuddle up with my quilt. Now my cat doesn't know what to think of me sleeping down at her end of the bed but she just cuddles up by my head and we go to sleep.

Eating a sweet dessert or anything with nuts can keep me up a bit late and also makes me a bit cold-sweaty as my body digests high energy stuff i suppose.

I dont eat anything but water past 5pm. I have Gastroparesis and to do so means I regurgitate half the night. its rare that we eat at 6, but it does happen. We rarely eat sweets here, even tho my brain tells me they are part of a nutritionally balanced diet. I eat fruit or stuff like that if I want sweets.

I got that magic bed pillow that blows up the head of the bed. I used it 2x now and I am impressed that raising the head of the bed just 2 or 3 inches at night has kept me from rolling and spinning and waking up coughing. I think I have been suffering with acid reflux pretty bad and dont notice it too much cause I am trying to sleep.

I am trying to do more and more OUT of bed during the day instead of using it as my TV place, my computer place, my phone place, my game place, my facebook place...I am using the living room TV, Computer, phone...I am hoping this will make a difference for me.