Exhausted, angry, and afraid to sleep
 

Hi,

I left work early today (Monday) because I only had 3 hours of sleep the night before and was too sleepy to function. I'm not going into work on Tuesday either because I am sooooo worn out from lack of sleep.

I've been in treatment for sleep and bipolar since 1988. I wish I could get some help sometime soon about sleep.

Maybe this decade would be nice!!!

M.

I hope you get caught up in your sleep today.
I wish sleep were easier for you...it must be so frustrating.
((((HUGS))))
bizi

Mari, I had that problem for years. Medications sometimes helped, but mostly didn't. My pdoc is the no benzo, no sleep-aid kind of a man, so there was no encouragement from him to try anything specific.
Fortunately for me a muscle relaxant that I have been prescribed for lupus has helped. For the last couple of months that I've been on it, I've slept well.
Let me see - I know you must have tried a whole lot of stuff - maybe I could dig something up?
What kind of sleep-aids have you tried?
:hug:

I slept from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm
 

Hi,

I slept today.
I just woke up and feel ok now.
M.

Oh Good!
 

That is terrific Mari!

I, on the other hand, slept badly. :D

But that's OK. I can catch a nap whenever. I am lucky that I mostly don't have the pressure of having to watch the clock.

Hope your sleep better from now Mari and I hope that is not wishful thinking!
:hug:

Dear Isis,

I'm avoiding bed again right now even though I have been sleepy for several hours.

I don't know how to fix this.



M.

I'm sorry Mari that you've had these problems for so long. I hope that you have a better decade. BF:hug::hug::hug:

I totally identify with your fear of going to bed. I have spent many nights feeling exactly that. Very difficult to suggest anything 'though. Particularly since you have to go to work in the morning.
Does reading help? I find most TV programes keep me up - light, noise - too stimulating. Deep breathing? Have you tried a sleep clinic?
:hug:

Mari
I think you are doing everything you can to overcome this.
Just keep working on it.

Donna

Oh ! sleep problems are terrible !!!

I really hate myself when I cant sleep !!

Mari, have you tried B-complex ?? Those pills make me sleep like baby !!! :o