Is anybody out there...I can't fall asleep
 

Hello! Anyone else awake? It's one of those nights. I can't wake up anyone they have an early morning.

If you're there tell me what you have for dinner and ask me almost anything.

Jenna

Wow. Everyone is asleep. Sweet dreams

I'm still awake. It's 1:41 am mountain time. Just realized I forgot to take my gabapentin. It helps my mind and body settle down. I'll going to try to get to sleep without it.

Nighty Night

It's frustrating when you wake up and the rest of the house is sleeping. Why can't we sleep, why do we wake up at stupid times! Drives me crazy. I don't know about you but I seem to have lost the skill of drifting off, it's like I have to put myself in a certain frame of mind before I can cross the threshold. Sleeping meds do more harm than good so I've just come off them, not sure they were doing anything anyway. Time, give it time I tell myself...

I do not like being awake when everyone else is sleeping. Such a lonely time. I also do not like sleeping meds. I went years with my thyroid out of whack before a doctor found it.

My sleep was all over the place. He gave me ambien to get on a schedule. What a trip! That stuff is like a hallucinogenic and I was left with no memories if I 'woke up' on it. Nope, nope, nope.

There may be something else out there better. Don't know. My sleep study came back negative for apnea but I do wake up often when I do fall asleep. If it's not better doc wants me to do sleep therapy.

I am a bit cynical about it though. Aren't most TBI patients sleep off the rails. I don't look forward to more therapy and money if this is what my reality is. Everyone in my support group has sleep issues. Some are 10-12 years out with sleep issues still.

I love nights when I fall asleep around 8-9 and wake up by 7.

Jenna

I don't have trouble falling asleep, but I fall asleep even without the drowsy stage at times. My eyelids just seem to get suddenly heavy and close. Then I fall asleep soon after.

This never happened to me before the injury. It can be frustrating because I can be in the middle of a good movie, or in the company of others, and I just fall asleep, with little to no forewarning. I can sleep as briefly as 5 minutes, or as long as 45 minutes. And it doesn't seem related to specific activities, just a sudden, all out timeout.

I feel somewhat like a narcoleptic I guess. Has anyone else experienced this?:confused:

Take care, M-i-m

I have a feeling I will be up all night tonight... so I will be around tonight!

I set my ipad TuneIn radio app to a science show (usually about the brain! Eg. All in the mind from Australia) and set the sleep timer to 15 minutes. Some nights I have to keep resetting the sleep timer, but I will eventually fall asleep to it. Staying asleep is another matter.

I am going to taper off my low does nortryptilene starting tonight because I still get headaches (the reason is was prescribed) and it doesn't seem to help me sleep past 6 am...i go to bed after midnite so that it not good!