Hi all, my first post on here so bear with me if already discussed or has a thread, I suffer with insomnia and its really starting to get to me, my living situation wasnt great up until May so i kind of accepted it and managed best i could, however i have now moved to a new flat and settling in which has been amazing, the insomnia settled briefly but has returned with a vengeance !! I have cleared my bedroom of all electronics, tried all the methods of getting myself ready to sleep etc even to the point where im so exhausted and tired im virtually falling asleep. The second i go to bed though and settle down BOOM i cannot drift off :( I end up getting up trying to do something and then feel exhausted again so return to bed for the same thing to happen again i end up finally falling asleep at stupid o clock ( 6-7am) then sleeping till the afternoon.
I know if i can break this cycle with a couple of nights good sleep at normal hours i wll be ok, so my question is has anyone tried any ' over the counter ' pills remedies and if so which ones work best ?? Im looking at Vitafusion Sleep well at the mo as i have tried Nytol etc and dont really work ??
If anyone has any advice etc i would be really grateful and on a side note im seeing my GP on friday for more advice, i dont really want prescription pills as the addiction side of things is not something i want to worry about.
Thanks all in advance
Jay
There's been an excellent discussion on the Dreaded Insomnia thread started by @Jonas1272.
I thought I'd start a new thread with the link below - it might either round off the chat or provoke some more.
In Woman's Weekly (men are welcome):
Sleeptember | The Top 10 Reasons Brits Are Kept Up At Night
I'm interested in the inclusion of insomnia as one of the listed reasons for Brits being kept up at night. This suggests that there is a medical condition called insomnia. Sure enough, I found this;
Insomnia - NHS
Most of the issues have already been aired but it is Sleeptember so let's aim for
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Hi everyone, does anyone suffer from insomnia? I've had terrible trouble trying to drop off at night, as soon as my head hits the pillow I'm wide awake even though I am exhausted. My doctor won't help, she gave me a weeks lot of Zopiclone but won't give me anymore. She told me to take Tramadol but that has no sleep effect onme whatsoever.
I have been getting some tablets online, I know I shouldn't but I am so desperate and they do seem to work. I try not to take one everyday. The lack of sleep is really affecting me now my pain is a lot worse as well as the fatigue.
Is there anything out there that can help with sleep. My doctor won't put meon amytriptyline, don't know why, she said I was already on a lot of meds.
I am so desperate now as I don't know how much longer I can go on like this as it's depressing me now.
Linda xx
Hi, I know my symptoms aren't emanating from MS, as you know, but just wanted to get one or two things off my chest.
As I mentioned on my blog recently, I'm not feeling so great at the moment. Whilst fatigue is bad enough, even after a full 10 hours' sleep some nights, at the moment I'm not sleeping at all well. I seem to be getting around 3 hours a night, then waking and just can't get back to sleep.
I do have a cold and a bit of a temperature, which is probably initially waking me, but what keeps me awake is worrying. I'm a born worrier, as you probably know! I've a lot on my plate right now - builders in the house (making the place noisy, dirty, and a bit hazardous if I'm honest), yet another bad cold (I get many), loads going on with the kids - all exciting, such as Uni and College to sort out - but it all falls on my shoulders. So, I'm under a bit of stress, feel unwell and don't really talk to anyone about it, choosing to plod on.
The other really stupid fear is that they got my ME diagnosis wrong - since all this stress has made weird symptoms re-appear. Night time leg cramps, constant involuntary muscle twitches all over my body, heavy arms. These things effect me at night, but I reckon I usually sleep through them, and if I do wake I normally just don't dwell on them and go back to sleep. At the moment, with not sleeping, I am dwelling on them and the paranoia creeps in again!
Anyway, that's about it I suppose. I know this will pass, I think I just wanted to share, so you knew why I was feeling rubbish again! And I figured to share it might make me feel better too, as it always used to when I was more prolific!!
I guess I'll just have to try and switch off my busy mind somehow, though I'm not one for drugs if I can help it.
Hello,
I registered as I wanted to ask you people something. My Wife has PPMS and has dizzy spells, vertigo, and numbness (among other symptoms).
Anyway, she called me into the bathroom and showed me her feet. She'd just come out of the shower and the bottoms of her feet were red from the hot water. But there were these white patches on the soles of her feet. She told me that they matched the numb areas on her feet.
I'd just never seen that anywhere before and both of us have been reading up on MS for quite a while. Does anyone else know of this? I thought it was amazing as after all these years we've got something we can show the quack "Look a real symptom!!!!"
If anyone could shed any light on this, it would be most welcome.
Cheers
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