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SLEEP! I have to be the world's worst sleeper. Can't remember the last time I had a full nights sleep, and tonight I am on one of my no sleep at all nights. Been like this since I was young - toddler - and no matter how tired I am, what I do to try to sleep, I don't. Made worse by OH who gets into bed every night and crashes straight out. He never knows when I have got up, put the light on to read, listened to music... 2.50 a.m. on Wednesday morning and I am on here browsing... and looking for sympathy really. No rhyme or reason as to why I don't sleep, not got anything much on my mind apart from usual never-ending list of things to do. Oh well, hope you all had a good nights sleep! Sad

tui

Sorry you can't sleep. I find that reading when I get into bed puts me straight to sleep but if I wake up and read then i can read all night. Very annoying whe n I know I need to bwe on the ball the next day. on the grow your own drugs bbc programme they made a sleep pillow which some people said was effective. It might have had tobacco leaves in it? That can't be right surely. also lavender.

tui

It was hops. I had to look it up before i went crazy!
http://www.simplesite.com/theapothecary/6489767 Very Happy

greyengine

Poor you. I don't know what I'd do without a good night's sleep most nights - tired enough as it is. Hope you find a remedy before too long.

cofnchoc

Hope you've managed to get through the day OK emadam. It must be awful for you. I suppose you've tried all the natural remedies.
A friend uses Night Nurse when she has problems sleeping. I occasionally take half a sleeping tablet but only because I can just buy them from the chemists here without a prescription.
I've stopped drinking coffee in the afternoon/evenings and read somewhere that looking at a puter screen before bed isn't good so I've cut down on that and it does seem to help.
Hope you manage some sleep tonight.

rubbadubbas

Poor you. I can sympathise - I was so sleep deprived when baby rubba arrived - but I have no idea how you cope when it is permanently ongoing. Have you been to your doctor about it? Hope you manage to get some tonight.

magpie nic

Hope you are getting through the day ok xx

nicolagraham

Oh no emadam- me too! I hardly slept last night- couldn't settle but probably because I worked too late and I couldn't unwind.

So tired tonight and have an awful headache. Sent OH for chinese and hoping to get an early night! Hope you're ok xxx

emadam

Thanks all, got through the day... just! I am soooo tired. Hopefully, tonight I will at least get a couple of hours. Talk of walking like the dead! Nicola - hope you enjoy the Chinese, relax, get rid of the headache and sleep. DON'T work too late!

I don't drink tea or coffee, but I do take a sleeping tablet on a Sunday night - from the doctor. Have done since I was 15. I still don't sleep through though, usually wake up about three times. Don't ever take one on any other night as I don't like taking them.

rubbadubbas

Hope you both get plenty of sleep tonight.