chris & the giant peach
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Jan 24, 2012 2:49:32 GMT
Went to bed at 11. Still wide awake at 12...started to panic by 1! Got fearful by 2. Got up at 2.30 and boiled the kettle.  Have to be up at 7. Strangely I laid awake thinking about Derek Nimmo. I mean for crying out loud! Googled him hoping he was still with us and discover he sadly departed in 1999. Oh, Brother!  Tips for sleeping well dear Stubbies? |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 24, 2012 7:41:53 GMT
I didn't know/had forgotten that about Derek Nimmo.
I woke at 4am, and got up at 5am. I'm not so worried as I don't have to be anywhere or do anything, and if I flake out in the day I can go to bed. This makes me very fortunate, I know.
But I would love to be able to sleep straight through from 11 to 7.
What has worked for me sometimes is getting up and having a hot milk drink, and reading something not too demanding for a while, not in bed, and not trying to sleep. I have sometimes dozed off on the couch while doing this. Another thing that sometimes works (but only in the cold seasons) is refreshing your hot water bottle. Back in bed, the heat source gives you something to concentrate on that isn't not being able to sleep.
It's a dismal thing though, Chris. I really envy our cats sometimes.
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Post by housesparrow on Jan 24, 2012 7:55:13 GMT
Well bless my soul! Derek Nimmo cropped up in conversation on my over-energetic walk on Saturday; we were discussing the old sitcom "All Gas and Gaiters".
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Post by everso on Jan 24, 2012 12:56:02 GMT
Sometimes I find that if I drop off into a post-dinner coma for a couple of hours, I then have a bit of trouble sleeping once in bed. The thing is NOT to panic. The very fact that you are lying down means your body is resting, even if your brain isn't. I usually find that trying to decide what to spend the £1,000,000 I'm bound to win one day on the premium bonds will get me off to sleep. Failing that, often forcing your eyes to stay open will result in them shutting eventually without you realising.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jan 24, 2012 13:32:51 GMT
I was vaguely awake from around 3.30 a.m. [yes, I'd had wine again...tut]
But the song I'm practising at the moment kept going over and over and over...
Not fun.
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chris & the giant peach
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Jan 24, 2012 17:51:04 GMT
Thanks for the tips mates! Hopefully a better night tonight as I'm exhausted. In bed for 9 for me tonight...and no cheese.
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Post by sesley on Jan 24, 2012 19:54:50 GMT
try having a steaming hot bath as hot as you can stand before you get into bed and then a nice glass of warm milk . A hot bath will get you nice and light headed and relaxed for sleep.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 24, 2012 20:45:33 GMT
I used to find that I was so agitated about not sleeping, with bad thoughts going round and round in my head that I did not relax at all: was all tensed up. Then I tried having a spliff before going to bed. That was perfect. I usually did sleep; but even if I didn't I'd relax. The haze in my brain broke up the thoughts and ensured that I never thought the same thing twice, instead just drifting into random but linked thoughts that went on and on and became very like the start of a dream. Some nights I was awake until 3-4 but enjoyed it and felt fine the next day.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 28, 2012 19:34:23 GMT
After all my wise advice to Chris, this is what happened last night:
More tired than I can ever remember being.
I have had no whisky for the last two nights, hoping that this might enable me to sleep better. Thursday night wasn't bad; but last night, while I may have dozed for a few minutes here and there I didn't sleep at all. I also had that reflux thing, where it feels as if vomit is backing up in your throat, and my stomach felt sore. I could not settle, could not get comfortable. Later I tried to make myself puke, but couldn't even manage that. Just now I dozed a bit on the couch and so went back to bed: but it was just the same. I can get to the point when you imagine and picture strange things, but no more.
Whisky tonight. God.
And later:
Better now. My BP was alarmingly high - more than 200 over 118 - and I had a BP tablet and an antihistamine and went to bed. I don't think I slept, but our lass said I was snoring like a good'un, so I suppose I must have. And I suppose I must have slept last night as well, a bit.
Not as tired now, anyway. The tiredness is a sick tiredness, that feels as if it will go if I managed to vomit. I've not managed that, though I have discovered what a good thing the bit that goes over your ears on a pair of glasses is for making you gag. BP a bit lower as well. Still too high, but not so alarmingly high.
Now watching a weird NCIS (the start of Season 7), and later I will have whisky and watch the Woman in Black that was shown a few years ago. Then bed, and a syndol and maybe, sleep.
I've been too tired to do anything much today.
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Post by everso on Jan 29, 2012 9:44:15 GMT
Oh poor old Aubs! Hope you sleep better tonight.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 29, 2012 10:19:46 GMT
Oh poor old Aubs! Hope you sleep better tonight. Some hope. He's planning to do GWD. No more sleep after he goes down that path. Ask Riot. |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 29, 2012 11:14:39 GMT
Ten Hours!
Still have sore stomach muscles, from all that trying to retch.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 29, 2012 11:30:14 GMT
Ten Hours! Still have sore stomach muscles, from all that trying to retch. When I had those same symptoms, 2003 or so, they found an ulcer. Had a course of antibiotics, been on pills ever since, and never a single problem with acid, vomiting, or reflux. (Except some bug I had on holiday once.) Might not be the same cause, of course. |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 29, 2012 12:38:25 GMT
I think it's more to do with dialysis and drugs around that: I started having Omeprazole to counter the effect of other drugs on my stomach: I mean, that and all the other drugs were started together.
It does work, as I've discovered a couple of times when I've run out. But it doesn't always work.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 29, 2012 13:04:21 GMT
I think it's more to do with dialysis and drugs around that: I started having Omeprazole to counter the effect of other drugs on my stomach: I mean, that and all the other drugs were started together. It does work, as I've discovered a couple of times when I've run out. But it doesn't always work. I thought that might be the case. Omeprazole is what I'm on too. Used to be Nexium. I've missed days several times, but nothing drastic seems to happen. I did ask two different doctors if I could still eat vindaloos, and they said no problem. That's the main thing as far as I'm concerned. |
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jan 29, 2012 17:36:49 GMT
Will someone please tell me what GWD is and will it stop me from getting uber bored tonight?
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 29, 2012 17:59:45 GMT
greatworlddebate.net/index.phpNo, it probably won't stop you being bored. Unless you find me repeatedly calling a fucking moron 'you fucking moron' interesting.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jan 29, 2012 18:05:25 GMT
It's got to be better than what I've got planned..[or unplanned]. I'll have a look...
..I seem to attract fucking morons myself....should be just like home
**I have rung the bell, just waiting for someone to notice me..
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Post by Weyland on Jan 29, 2012 18:27:30 GMT
It's got to be better than what I've got planned..[or unplanned]. I'll have a look... ..I seem to attract fucking morons myself....should be just like home **I have rung the bell, just waiting for someone to notice me.. Riot will sort it for you. She's a Reichsführerin over there. |
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Post by trubble on Jan 30, 2012 2:24:15 GMT
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Have to be up at 7. Strangely I laid awake thinking about Derek Nimmo. I mean for crying out loud! Googled him hoping he was still with us and discover he sadly departed in 1999. Oh, Brother! 
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