Hi there,

I havent' had a "normal" night's sleep since the 15th January. I am pretty fed up about this. I can only sleep half sitting up on my left side. This can get pretty uncomfortable and makes my hip really hurt as well. If I "dare" to lay on my right side - after a few moments everything starts to move and there's the pressure in my head. :yawn:
I am tired from this. It makes it hard to go to college & work sometimes.
Also feeling a bit fed up because I felt all disoriented at college yesterday and also when out with the dog the night before. Like I couldn't feel the right direction of places properly.

I wish this thing would just leave me alone. I'm gonna have to start kicking *** and get referred to a proper balance centre. I just wanna feel normal and get on with having fun. Sorry to moan - I just needed to have a whinge to someone hehe.

Hi Katkin,

Sorry to hear you aren't sleeping well. I know all too well what that's like. If I didn't have my head elevated just right a few months ago I would be waking up in the middle of the night like I just escaped a near-death experience - total panic! It's awful. I can only tell you that it will get better and your sleep will return. When I couldn't sleep, I found rocking myself gently would knock me out for a while. When things were really bad I used the big guns - Valium. That worked really well but be careful with it. If you over do it, you start relying on it too much and it is apparently not good for compensation.

Hope that helps.....good luck,

Scott