I've had chronic insomnia for 6 years now and I've just relied on doctor described pills ( Deptran was the best ) but recently I've decided to go pill free because the side affects of the pills are not kool with me.
Well... It's not fun, it's either getting completely wasted every night ( not kool ) or relying on valium/ ect (still pills but no side effects... Excluding addiction... ) to fall asleep.
How many of you are insomniacs?
How do you cope wit it?
Edit: to topic: I do get quite mad. world domination, getting brandy stuck to my shirt. All the same... No?
And I think my parents are having sex in the next room... .... ... .. ... ... :-[
I have Night terrors and waking dreams... Some times I don't know if I am awake or asleep...
I can't switch off at night, just keeping thinking about random rubbish and find myself only getting 4 hours to 6 hours a night, I don't know if you would class that as Insomnia... Its broken and chaotic sleep...
I don't take tablets... I keep my eyes open and stare at the celing until my eyes water and sting like mad until I can't keep them open, that gets me to sleep, but I only do that when I am really having trouble sleeping...
A Pint of Guiness has lots of Iron in and sits heavy on the brain... That can help... Av a pint an hour before trying to sleep... A Pint a day is supposedly good for you... I mix mine with Red wine, again supposed to be good for you... again though I do this when things are pretty hard going...
I like Guiness :). I find it better as a meal replacement rather then sleep exchange-ment.... But yeh, sleep disorders suck!!! * Quite Drunk * ;)
Mixing Guiness with Red Wine is a mixture that can cause head-ache...
Try this one... Guiness with a little backcurrent, then add a Double Voka Lemonaid and lime into it... taste like refresher sweets... Gets you hammered after 3 or 4 of em... Actually don't, its not good advice for some one that drinks to encourage them to drink more, when you want to cut back on it...
Ah... one other method, get some Radox, run a Hot Bath with some in (Get the Relaxant version)... I usally end up falling asleep in the bath for two hours or so... Wake up stone cold with a stiff neck, but its very easy to pass out in Hot water with that stuff in there...
Mike Old Field or Tubar Bells Music CD's are very good for relaxing me... Try just closing your eyes and listening to it while laying down, you may not fall into a deep sleep but it helps calm the mind and you may get some lucid sleep... Either way the music aint half bad...
Good luck...
I don't suffer as bad as you two, but I can never just drift of when I go to bed. I'm just lying there for hours...looking at the ceiling. Its very dirty.
Anyway, im to young for most effective pills, so I just have to live with it. And I get pissed of really quickly as well, I just learned to hid and ignore it.
But you two have it worse of.
Meh, I only sleep for about 5-6 hours on school nights and about twice that on the weekends. Seems like a good enough sleep schedule to me.
QuoteMeh, I only sleep for about 5-6 hours on school nights and about twice that on the weekends. Seems like a good enough sleep schedule to me.
To be honest I still function OK... I still go to work, but I tend to get run down easy like mouth ulcers and get slugish and Ache a bit... thats at really or I could just be getting old... LOL
I don't feel I need to see a doctor for lack of sleep... I have seen one about my dreams though...POsted some of them here in this thread:- http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,8367.15.html
Quote from: nevfx on January 10, 2007, 10:46:35 PM
I don't suffer as bad as you two, but I can never just drift of when I go to bed. I'm just lying there for hours...looking at the ceiling. Its very dirty.
Anyway, I'm to young for most effective pills, so I just have to live with it. And I get pissed of really quickly as well, I just learned to hid and ignore it.
But you two have it worse of.
That's how it started out for me. Just laying there with no lights on for about 5+ hours before drifting un conscience. It's mental torture ( well it wasn't until I found out that normal people fall asleep within 7 min's ).
Now I just don't sleep full stop, with out outside help that is.
I will be trying that Guinness Tonic Doc ;)
I have mild insomnia. I was up until 6 am last night until i somehow managed to sleep.
Jesus, you have it bad. Wait, what time did you got to bed.
6, and I finally got to sleep around 5:30 last night.
What's the longest you guys have gone with out sleep? I've done 4 days. I must say after you haven't slept for awhile the effects are trippy, I tend to push pass the tired stage and go into a different mode, it's almost like being drunk with clarity added to it... You see things in a different light...
I've gone 4 days without sleep too. I think it was over something stupid like a bet.
Only two days over here.
I tend to be fairly awake when asleep and fairly asleep when awake... I have what my doctor said is waking dreams... like the other day I walked past the water cooler and saw a gold fish swimmimg in it, and that made me think about whaling and then I was back at my desk and I don't recall moving from the water cooler, unless I sailed there... But if I Consentrate I do remeber the walk back but its more vivid than the Goldfish and the whaling I took part in... Reading that back its pretty shocking... Oh well... Most of my painting come from my experince and with out them I think I would go Mad with boardem...
I have an over active imagination, and when I have no out let I get worst, so thats why I try and make Games, like RPG's, Levels for 1st person shooters, Paint, Play War Hammer, Magic the Gathering and all other Geeky stuff... even though I turn 28 next month...LOL
I've gone 2 days, too.
Not sure how long I have gone... Some times I only have 2 hours sleep, or a little more, power napping, I don't think I have gone without sleep for any longer than 32 hours... So I don't think I have things too bad.
Well you know whats funny? I tried going to bed a couple hours ago. And I can't sleep. I don't think it's ha ha funny, just ironic.
my sister is kind of, she has a lot of trouble falling asleep... maybe she has it, i have no idea
Can she fall to sleep eventually?
Quote from: nevfx on January 15, 2007, 07:10:19 PM
Can she fall to sleep eventually?
sometimes no... like sometimes shes awake the whole night
She has Insomnia. :( I think....
i hope not :-\
well i guess she needs to talk to a doctor about it
If she seriously can't fall asleep some nights, then yeah.
I've gone 3 days. Not my limit, but my grandmother did everything she could till I finally went to sleep.
School was itself a dream.
I can relate with the Night Terrors and Waking Dreams thing. It suxxorz teh big one1111!!! (Reference to a flash vid)
That's why I spend most of my time in the IRC at night. It forces me to utilize my brain, expending energy till I can finally get to sleep. (not to say some of chats we have really require much brain power xD )
My sleeps schedual is 2:00 am - 6:00 am (4 hours) and on the weekends 2:00 am - 1:00 pm.
It stinks. I remember comming really close to failing one year because I couldn't focus.
I finally fell alseep at 9 in the morning......
You all suffer bad....
I'm not falling asleep tonight. Though that's a choice, so it's not really insomnia. Wow what a useless post.
lol
It's 6:42 and I'm still awake.
:(
I'm pulling an all nighter.... My sleep patterns need this. I've been sleeping bizzare hours.
If it helps...
Hopefully.
Good luck.
I DO NOT NEED LUCK, FOR I AM A HIGHLANDER!
lol, and your Thor's Bitch.
I avoid all nighters... I hate them. Usually this never happens but yesterday it took me three hours to fall asleep. >:( I HATE ALL NIGHTERS! It's like a dream or something...
I used to have Chronic Fatigue (sp?) horrible side effect of Mehingococcal, I'd get to sleep instantly but not when I wanted to. :D
QuoteI have insomnia. I'm neither asleep, nor awake, just... there.
I dont have a choice at this point. If I don't I won't be able to have a normal scheduale by the time winter break is done.
I probably shouldn't have pulled an allnighter. I just fell asleep in Java =o
Well it's 2 AM and I oughta try and get some rest. Have someone coming over today, well maybe two people if I wake before 4 PM ;/
ADVICE: Don't do allnighters. :)
Nah it's cool. It's more the fact that I've got a lot of other crap on my mind right now that I'd rather not, so I lay my head down and try not to think about it and all of a sudden POOF and I'm asleep.
That's a good thing sometimes I suppose. I just feel like crap after allnighters. And... I can't get to sleep - clock now reads 3:19 AM. >:( And me going on here out of boredom isn't helping either.
It's noon and I'm still awake. I can dooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: FuMannChu on January 16, 2007, 01:05:25 PM
I dont have a choice at this point. If I don't I won't be able to have a normal scheduale by the time winter break is done.
Me to. I fall asleep when my body lets me, my parents wake me up. Otherwise I could sleep till like 12:00PM, or at 4:00AM (GMT)
All nighters hmm.. nah i better get some sleep else i will crack down i think lol
And need all the rest i can get cuzz school wont give me any.
It's almost 2:30, imma keep going! I is not giving up!
lol
Allnighters are easy, so long as you're always doing something.
3:30! as long I'm posting or soemthing Imma be good.
I was webcamming with Emily all night so I stayed up just fine. Then I had school, and now I'm home doing nothing but posting and I'll probably work on some TabIts to keep me awake until tonight.
4:11, I is teh gosu.
In high school, senior year, I spent a week up for some reason. I used to be able to stay up for fucking ever, but now I can hardly go a day anymore. Lame :(
Chronic Fatigue? My sister has that. She was an absolute bitch because of it too... But I feel for ya. It really, really sucks, especially when many doctors won't recognize it as an actual existing affliction.
As to the waking dreams: Fuck, oh fuck I HATE them. Very disturbing the ones I get, which is bad because I sleep with a gun on my night table. Woke up once, was still dreaming and thought some chick was breaking in. I shot a hole through my wall... Hahahaha... Good times... :police:
That could have been dangerous, like f the bullet rebounded of something, and killed you.
But it would have been cool.
Quote from: nevfx on January 18, 2007, 05:01:15 PM
That could have been dangerous, like f the bullet rebounded of something, and killed you.
Hahahaha that would of been wicked awesome.... I shot my cat by mistake once... She survived. Her name's Cheese... ... ;8
Some one give me $20 and I'll do it again.
Damn I'm out of money! Dudes! I he did that it would be totally awesome! Some one give him 20 bucks!
*gives money*
Lets hear some bullets.
Quote from: Deliciously_Saucy on January 19, 2007, 04:30:21 AM
Quote from: nevfx on January 18, 2007, 05:01:15 PM
That could have been dangerous, like f the bullet rebounded of something, and killed you.
Hahahaha that would of been wicked awesome.... I shot my cat by mistake once... She survived. Her name's Cheese... ... ;8
Some one give me $20 and I'll do it again.
LMAO !!
You shot your cat !
dude you are sick !
I wish i could shoot something sometime but its not allowed here in holland not even for self defense but stille people get shot every day...
I don't think that law is working then.
Hey! I'm half Dutch! We just had family over from Holland too. They were rude obese ass holes. I was out $400 worth of food per gest the first day...
"Bang Bang... He shot me down... Bang bang, I hit the ground... Bang bang, My baby shot me down."
Paypal anyone?