Who's awake on this Graveyard Shift???

kindaunwell · 01-15-2004, 02:25 AM

Hi, to whoever is still awake!!
I made an Insoniac's worst mistake!!! >>>> I ended up taking a 4 hour sleep from around 7:00PM to 10:30PM earlier tonight, so I know there will be NO SLEEP for me now. I don't think even medication will put me to sleep...
BadAttitude >>> you still working the graveyard shift, or did you switch to P.M.'s. LOL!!!
Rosie, did you make it to the meeting last night. Lets see, its only 10:20PM out in Cal. ,so maybe you're still there???. And even if you didn't go, come on line and talk to me about it. I "certainly" will understand.... Hey yinksy, I haven't heard from you in awhile. How have things been going for you,Lass ???
Anybody else out there feel like talking. I feel like it....

(As he hollers into the void)
Kinda-unwell

BadAttitude · 01-15-2004, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by kindaunwell

Hi, to whoever is still awake!!
I made an Insoniac's worst mistake!!! >>>> I ended up taking a 4 hour sleep from around 7:00PM to 10:30PM earlier tonight, so I know there will be NO SLEEP for me now. I don't think even medication will put me to sleep...
BadAttitude >>> you still working the graveyard shift, or did you switch to P.M.'s. LOL!!!
Rosie, did you make it to the meeting last night. Lets see, its only 10:20PM out in Cal. ,so maybe you're still there???. And even if you didn't go, come on line and talk to me about it. I "certainly" will understand.... Hey yinksy, I haven't heard from you in awhile. How have things been going for you,Lass ???
Anybody else out there feel like talking. I feel like it....

(As he hollers into the void)
Kinda-unwell

Hey, Kindaunwell
Well I can relate to making the same mistake have done the same thing several times in the last few weeks. I am going to try to hit the bed about 3 a.m. this morning I am going to take some Tyenol PM to help me sleep at I have classes (college class) and I need to try and get a little shut eye before class. It's like 2:19 a.m. here so I will be on here for about another 45 minutes if you want to talk. Yeah, I wonder if Rosie went to the NA meeting or not, if she did I would love to hear how ot went for her.

Love & Happiness
~Autumn~

kindaunwell · 01-15-2004, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by BadAttitude

Hey, Kindaunwell
Well I can relate to making the same mistake have done the same thing several times in the last few weeks. I am going to try to hit the bed about 3 a.m. this morning I am going to take some Tyenol PM to help me sleep at I have classes (college class) and I need to try and get a little shut eye before class. It's like 2:19 a.m. here so I will be on here for about another 45 minutes if you want to talk. Yeah, I wonder if Rosie went to the NA meeting or not, if she did I would love to hear how ot went for her.

Love & Happiness
~Autumn~

Hi,BadAttitude
Good luck on getting to sleep early today (3:00AM <<<I guess that is early for you (us) isn't it ???). I gotten afew hits on my "graveyard"post, but I guess no one feels like talking. Or they are just Lurkers, who haven't begun to post yet!!! I did that for a month or two myself.

Well, we will talk again some other time. I hope your class goes well for you. And your Mind is alert!! .....

(Waiting at the Void)
Kinda-unwell

BadAttitude · 01-15-2004, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by kindaunwell

Hi,BadAttitude
Good luck on getting to sleep early today (3:00AM <<<I guess that is early for you (us) isn't it ???). I gotten afew hits on my "graveyard"post, but I guess no one feels like talking. Or they are just Lurkers, who haven't begun to post yet!!! I did that for a month or two myself.

Well, we will talk again some other time. I hope your class goes well for you. And your Mind is alert!! .....

(Waiting at the Void)
Kinda-unwell

Hi, Kindaunwell
Haven't made it to bed yet as I had planned up doing some reading for my class tomorrow and also doing some research. You still can't sleep ? Are you going to go back to the doctors and see about getting a medication change to help you sleep?
Well will be on here for a few more minutes if you want to talk.

Love & Happiness
~Autumn~

rosietee · 01-15-2004, 04:39 AM

Hi, kinda, I did post about the meeting under the NA thread.

On the subject of insomnia:
You had asked me before about my insomnia, and it has always been caused by anxiety and/or depression. The first anti-depressant I tried was trazadone and I just loved being able to go to sleep! I think it helped a little with my depression, but I felt a little too groggy during the day and I stopped it. (I am on Prozac now) But if I use the trazadone for sleep now it makes me feel panicky for some reason. I love the way ambien makes me feel. It really helps, but I develop a tolerance really fast. My ob/gyn has been calling it in for me, but doesn't like me to be on it every night, so I have been trying to take half a pill and stretch it out a little before a try for a refill. (she might not go for it, though) I used to take Prosom and that worked pretty well too. It was awhile ago, so I don't remember the non-brand name of it. I did OD on those once, but that is a whole nuther story. (didn't want to die and knew I wouldn't on those, but was really depressed and in a bad situation and wanted to sleep for a looong time, but ended up in the hospital for a week. It was after my late husband committed suicide) I did get Halcion once and that stuff worked great, but when the doctor found out I was taking it every night for a week, he cut me off (I heard nasty things can happen to you from that stuff). When I am really dying for sleep in the past I have just reached for anything I could get, benzos, pain pills, alcohol, just for the sleep. But in the state we are in now, that of course is not an option.

To be honest, if you can make yourself do it, exercise and a good yoga video are the best for me. Just haven't been doing that lately. The kids don't go to sleep until 10 and that's the only time I get to talk to my husband, and it is hard to get motivated to go downstairs and exercise, even though I know I won't sleep.

okay, I have rambled enough. Reading this might just be the best cure for your insomnia, kinda. I'm picturing you face down in front of your computer by now.

Talk to you later and stay warm. (It was in the 80's here today!) I went to college in upstate New York and decided I had to get away from that weather (much worse than in the city).

Thanks for thinking about me,
rose