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Insomnia

Who else has it?

Cuz I do and it's drivin me nuts

Like a pirate with a wheel on his crotch

 

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If you're randomly up at 4:50 am even though you have to work in 2 hours and you're going insane

 

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loonielulu's picture

Not a diagnosed Insomniac, but...

In the last year and a half, I can't seem to sleep on a regular schedule anymore.  I can normally get about 3-5 hours in any given night.  Some nights I can get a good 5-8 hours, but most of the time it's not consecutive.  I'm finally taking half doses of extra strength PM medicines about an hour before bed so I can sleep because I was getting TOO familiar with the infomercial ring and doing midnight dishes/laundry.  It usually works for me.  :)

FlSunrise's picture

Insomnia Insanity

I know the feeling all to well. Some nights or even weeks are great, I can actually get maybe a good 6hours sleep, other times night after night I am randomly up at 3AM, 4:30am or even 5:45AM which is not too bad if you've actually had a good night's rest. I usually force myself to stay awake until about 1AM every night, this doesn't always work, but the nights I do sleep through I am so thankful for. I think that there is some underlying stress that causes this like maybe there is something on my mind, yet I don't know. All the crap about warm milk and no caffeine etc...doesn't work and I can't bring myself to do the Tylenol PM. One good thing though, I did find a remedy for heart burn that actually works from a late night infomercial...
lawnsprite's picture

solution

I found my solution:  lots and lots of xanax... haha  actually.. after five years of not sleeping on a regular basis, you tend to go a little crazy.  i went to a doc and they started giving me sleep meds and finally, i was given xanax... works like a charm... no craziness in the mornings.. just good sleep..even if the sleep is only three hours ;)

the most i have not slept: 4 days; then i slept for 2 days straight. 

A woman needs a fine and rare sincerity and a good amount of high-minded simplicity to determine what it is in her that tips the scale and adds some standard and approved element to her clandestine sex life.  Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower.

code3's picture

I want a wheel on my crocth.

I want a wheel on my crocth. Yes, and Xanax is God.
Shiznortizny's picture

sleep meds

ah some day I'll have that beautiful pill that will let me actually fall asleep in less than 3 hours trying

When I actually fall asleep i can sleep for a quite some time...well i mean i wake up a bout 5 times from nightmares and dreams about me saving the world from zombies with just a toothpick and a plastic fork ...but i can "sleep" like 12 hours, but its not really 12 hours...like my dad always thought i was lazy cuz he'd make me go to bed at like 10 then id want to sleep till noon and he's like thats 14 hours of sleep! and i'm like no dad that's about 8 hours of sleep for me...you see i go to bed at ten, dont fall asleep till 1...and then i wake up about 4 times and it takes me another half hour to fall asleep...then the sleep i do get is horrible cuz i'm kicking and screaming and trying to save the world in my sleep...so that adds up to about 9 hours of REALLY BAD sleep

but the worst is when u just cant sleep at all no matter how tired u are...like last night, i got off work at 11:00pm i was ready to go to beeddddd and I drove to my friends house cuz it was her bday, i went home, got home at like 1:30 I was so ready for bed....and what happened? I was up until 7am... then I woke up with a fever and my tonsils the size of watermelons. Hooray for insomnia!

I finally got health insurance and it covers "mental health" but like I dont even know who to call, what to do to even get started on trying to find a doctor for my horrible horrible sleep.

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

loonielulu's picture

Sleep Clinic

You could try a sleep clinic in your area if you want to start searching for some possible options.  If you can't find one, your hospital could probably direct you to one.  They sometimes have a sleep clinic in-house.  They'd probably want to do a sleep study on you...you go in at night and they hook you up to a bunch of wires and things that read your brain and vitals while you sleep there (because you do so well sleeping, why not add that? lol).  They can rule out other possible issues with sleep deprivation such as sleep apnea (sudden stopping of breathing for a short period) and a bunch of other junk I can't recall.  I went down that road and as luck would have it, I just can't sleep.  BUT, just cuz it didn't work for me...  :)  Sweet dreams!
Shiznortizny's picture

Sleep Clinics

Yeah I was thinkin about goin to one of those, they actually have ones where they pay you to do studies on sleep

 

I just have a feeling that i'll tear all those wires out in my sleep while i'm "saving the world" you know? lol

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

lawnsprite's picture

sleep clinics

sleep clinics... they aren't that helpful.  go to a doctor... mental health doctor... they can provide you with material to determine how severe your symptoms are and then go from there.  It took several months before I was finally put on meds that helped me... but as you can see it's 1 am and I am still up after taking my meds... lol

Shiznortizny's picture

Guess it's time to see a shrink

lawnsprite wrote:

sleep clinics... they aren't that helpful. go to a doctor... mental health doctor... they can provide you with material to determine how severe your symptoms are and then go from there. It took several months before I was finally put on meds that helped me... but as you can see it's 1 am and I am still up after taking my meds... lol

Thanks for the advice, I'm probably gonna make a couple calls this week and get some shit sorted out and maybe i'll stop being such a tweaker

I just have a feelin that I'll see some psychiatrist and tell him a lil too much and they'll lock me up in the loony bin.  Hooray for loony bins! Who knows, maybe i'll meet a hot, crazy chick.  

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

lawnsprite's picture

be careful

start slow and that you want to do things other than drugs.... go through the motions with the docs...  and then you will finally get the drugs you need.. ;)

gali's picture

drugs?

hi, See you all talking about various drugs for this problem and just wanted to tell you there are also some other things you could try.

A friend of mine had a baby with a sleeping problem and when she was about 5 years old she started her on bach flower therapy and she slept straight thru the night right away from the first time she took it.

maybe it will work for you, maybe not but at least it does not have the negative side effects drugs can have.

good luck!

lawnsprite's picture

drugs

Drugs are not the only solution but in severe cases and when cognative therapy doesn't work, they can be the only solution.  I have been on sleep meds for over three years and I still have to take them.

**A woman needs a fine and rare sincerity and a good amount of high-minded simplicity to determine what it is in her that tips the scale and adds some standard and approved element to her clandestine sex life.  Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower.**

Shiznortizny's picture

OMG DRUGS

Yeah...my whole life when it comes to either pain or sleep, regular...well anything doesn't work, the only times I've gotten very good sleep is when i've had prescription sleep meds (that weren't my own shhhhh)

I seriously have to be knocked out to fall asleep in less than 2 hours...or lately 4 hours.

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

walkoutfreezer's picture

solution

herbal Cannabis, a lot.
Shiznortizny's picture

ah the mota

walkoutfreezer wrote:
herbal Cannabis, a lot.

one of the few things that actually let me sleep

my friend told me that if you go to bed with thc in your system you dont enter the REM cycle

thus meaning i dont get dreams

and when i wake up i'm not incredibly drowsy

even tho i didnt get the deepest sleep, its full, goes thru the night, and i'm not waking up in the middle of the night thinkin that a zombie is eating my face or that I need to find more shotgun ammo to blast thru hordes of vampires

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

lawnsprite's picture

doctor

Go see a doctor ASAP!  If you're in school, go to the counseling center and find out which doc is sympathetic towards mental health.  You could even try Family & Children Services...if you're jobless you get free meds ;)  Quit suffering...sleep is wonderful even though I didn't sleep last night lol.  Go now; go see a doctor!!

 

 

A woman needs a fine and rare sincerity and a good amount of high-minded simplicity to determine what it is in her that tips the scale and adds some standard and approved element to her clandestine sex life.  Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower.

AoiSora's picture

Nightmares x_x

That doesn't sound very healthy O_O Not like anybody knows what REM is for...

I had nightmares every night when I was little... everybody turning into zombies and stuff like that x_x Then I told myself it's just like a horror movie... let's enjoy it and see how it ends (I know, I'm odd) Anyway, I never woke up from a nightmare again, since if you're not scared, you don't wake up and if you don't wake up, you don't remember XD

Anyway, it sounds like nightmares are a bigger problem for you than not being able to fall asleep...

And no more watching Buffy for you...

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Shiznortizny's picture

off to see the doctor

later this week

 

cuz yep

this girl's got health insurance now

WOOT!

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

aRiM's picture

any natural cure?

i stay up till 5am.. no matter how hard i try to go to sleep.. i tried going to sleep at 12am once, and ended up waking up ever hour till 5am.. so i gave up on trying to sleep early.. usually i have to tire myself out the whole day just to sleepat 3am..

i don't wanna start with the sleeping pills.. cosi think they're kinda expensive here.. can't do milk.. lactose intolerant..

 

AoiSora's picture

If milk works, hot water or

If milk works, hot water or something like that should also... it's just about having something in your stomach.

Maybe meditation or something like that? I tried it some time because it's supposed to make you feel better but I just fell asleep every time, which was not the point... 

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AoiSora's picture

I'm not an

I'm not an insomniac myself, but I have this friend who is. She only got a few hours of sleep a few months ago, but since things been working out for her she's sleeping 6 hours or so... I think for some people it really is a subconscious stress thing...

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Shiznortizny's picture

Nightmares

People always tell me that I 'watched too many horror movies as a kid'

scary thing is

i didnt...

and i had these horrific nightmares

and like when i was about 9 or 10 i started watching "scary" movies that would freak the shit outa people my age NOW and they didnt scare me back then

why?

cuz my nightmares were more terrifying than anything put in a movie

Last night i slept AMAZINGLY

why? cuz my friend gave me some mota and i smoked a fat bowl before i hit the sack, no dreams, if i had em i dont remember or they were good and I woke up ready to take on the world, not depressed, not groggy, not feeling incomplete....i felt

i felt GOOD waking up in the MORNING

like omg

i'm seriously thinkin bout getting it legally and i'm not any sort of stoner, i only smoke by myself usually before i go to bed or about an hour before i know ima go to bed...but ima run out soon...and that's never good

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

Harpy's picture

...

Shiznortizny wrote:
i'm seriously thinkin bout getting it legally and i'm not any sort of stoner, i only smoke by myself usually before i go to bed or about an hour before i know ima go to bed...but ima run out soon...and that's never good

I'm curious as to how you propose getting weed legally?  No doctor is going to prescribe medical marijuana to someone under 21.  From what I understand, doctors who agree to prescribe marijuana, can only do so for those with severe medical conditions.  I don't think insomnia would apply, especially considering there are prescription and over the counter sleep aids.

As much as I feel marijuana should be decriminalized and legal - Not to those under 21.

Lilster's picture

Sleeeepp?

I've developed insomnia as part of being a CS major. I used to have a normal sleep schedule...

 

...scratch that.

 

I used to sleep.

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lawnsprite's picture

haha...

three minutes until time moves forward an hour... that's what i'm doin instead of sleeping... counting time...

aRiM's picture

never could get that to

never could get that to work..

tried counting sheep.. then kept wondering why they jump over the stupid fence..

tried counting women..that ended in a shower..

counting time is the worst for me.. specially when i listen to the ticking of clocks.. freaks me out.. like somethings coming to get me..

lawnsprite's picture

Daylight Savings

I was counting down the minutes until instead of 2am the clock shot forward to 3am.  Weird things this concept of time...weird.........

sixsixsix's picture

my sleeping patterns have

my sleeping patterns have gone to hell since i moved back into student rez nothing quite like 30 drunk ppl comming home at 4am and a law degree to keep you awake...and yay i have an 8am lecture tomorrow funfunfun
Shiznortizny's picture

hooray for drunk people

usually i'm one of those drunk people coming home being loud cuz my friend wont tell me that her roommate is sleeping.......

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

ysubassoon's picture

Sunset to sunrise to sunset, watching for all the wrong reasons

I've dealt with insomnia for most of my adult life, and I do find that it is worse during periods of stress or depression.  It's hard to separate how much emotion factors into it, though since it is also during these cycles that I exercise less and become lethargic, and those conditions also contribute to insomnia.  Daily vigorous exercise is the only thing that I have found to help consistently.  It is much easier for me to sleep if I am physically drained rather than emotionally so.  It also lowers my stress level by providing a healthy outlet, gives me more energy overall, and helps me to feel more productive and thus raise my self-esteem.  I started working out just ten days ago, and I have been sleeping better most nights.

"Better than a thousand useless words is one word that brings us peace."

--The Dhammapada

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Exercise

Good idea, that used to work for me. Maybe I should start up again, since it's a beautiful day and I'm stranded in a mountain hick town until friday.

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

lawnsprite's picture

?

Have you gone to the doctor?  I know it looks like I keep pushing the drug angle but from experience, I would rather sleep with the aid of drugs than not sleep at all. 

There are also cognative things you can do to help establish a sleep routine.  Low light at night can help.  A regular bed time, and a bed time routine will help.  No TV or Computer two hours before scheduled bed time.  No caffine after 2pm.  A regular wake-up time that is enforced even on weekends.  Do nothing but sleep and sex in your bedroom.   No TV or computer in your bedroom.  etc, etc,etc.

Shiznortizny's picture

NO COMPUTER?!

How am I supposed to play world of warcraft?! lol

i actually noticed the other night that right before I went to bed I was playing videogames and when i tried to sleep it was all i was thinking about and it was somewhat stressful, i've now come to realize that its true, u probably shouldnt play videogames or watch stressful/mindfuck movies or tv right before u go to bed cuz it leaves you thinkin bout crazy shit...so ima try to work on that better

 

 

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

linzadaisical's picture

I have trouble sleeping too..

but for me I know it's just stress..

My mom has given me some of her xanax before, but for some reason it doesn't seem to help me. Heh..

Does anyone else get extremely WEIRD dreams under stress? Man, I have some unusual dreams..

I also tend to sing in my dreams and a lot of times I wake up in the morning singing songs from RENT.

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Don't even get me started on WEIRD dreams

seriously, you ever have a friend wake you up saying you were singing a song about bubbles in your sleep and you realize you had a dream that you were taking a bubble bath in a GIANT tu with a ton of cabbage patch kids holding hands and singing? yeah

 

then RIGHT after than dream about decapitating zombies from outspace with chainsaws attached to your hands then joining forces with pirates and ninjas to eventually obliterate them by flying a pirate ship into space and throwing ninja starts at the zombie space mothership?

 

yeah...

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

kemy's picture

OR

Just last night, or rather early this morning, have you dreamt that u were in a shower, then suddenly this bug bites you, all of sudden the body grows, u felt ur big toe starting to hurt, of course the bug is sucking ur blood in order to get a body, well I try to flick the bug, but nnooo the head wont come off, only the body were dicpated, and blood everywhere near the body, knowing that was my blood, of course the head starts to grow the body back by sucking more blood, screaming my head off realising I cannot get the bug of my toe... then this person appears ( i dont know this person) said will try get rid of the bug, so it did, with the head attached, i got out of the shower, seeing this bug with teeth like way, scrambling around the shower some how went through the shower onto the bath room floor, screaming, the bug was chasing after me....

any ideas what this dream means?

Shiznortizny's picture

Just ask Dr. Shorty

kemy wrote:

Just last night, or rather early this morning, have you dreamt that u were in a shower, then suddenly this bug bites you, all of sudden the body grows, u felt ur big toe starting to hurt, of course the bug is sucking ur blood in order to get a body, well I try to flick the bug, but nnooo the head wont come off, only the body were dicpated, and blood everywhere near the body, knowing that was my blood, of course the head starts to grow the body back by sucking more blood, screaming my head off realising I cannot get the bug of my toe... then this person appears ( i dont know this person) said will try get rid of the bug, so it did, with the head attached, i got out of the shower, seeing this bug with teeth like way, scrambling around the shower some how went through the shower onto the bath room floor, screaming, the bug was chasing after me....

any ideas what this dream means?

Something or someone is sucking the life out of you and the only way to stop it is to take it head on, not picking it off piece by piece because the head will grow its body back....you gotta burn the little fucker!

And that is my highly educationed opinion

-Dr. Shorty

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"Valentine's Day's coming? Aw crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again!"- Fry

Kris_B82's picture

Daylight Savings...

I'm lucky if I get 2 hours a night of sleep, but since daylight savings have ended here for now and the clock had to be put back an hour I'm getting 1 if I'm lucky, because my stupid body clock won't rest and still thinks it's 6:30 am when it's 5:30am...why is it that the body clock is the only one that can't be reset?
Always fighting against the current, the salmon has long been a symbol of determination. (Tattoo Johnnie. com)

kemy's picture

thanks dr shorty

that makes sense.... something or someone is sucking the life out of me... hmmmmm it could be "someone"(s) or "something"....

Well one way or the other, its time for a change in my life.....


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