Who else can't sleep?
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I got 2 lots of 3 hour which is the most I've had in days (weeks?) but I resorted to Tamazepam - one before I went to bed then another as soon as I woke up in the night. Managed to mostly sleep until 5.
The excitement is too much...yesterday new bathers and today I'm heading off to the Look Good, Feel Better workshop.3 -
1.12am. Wide awake. Completely wired, as if I've had half a dozen coffees when in fact haven't had coffee in over a week. Gargh!0
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I didn't make it hear until 5am but that's as a result of Temazapam at 1:30am. Father-in-law's funeral today and I don't want to be a zombie - or worse, fall asleep when the extended family are gathered. (I had to fight it when we met with the funeral director - so embarrassing)0
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Hi there @sister. I hope you went and got the fish and chips. Sometimes you’ve just got to say fuck it. Fuck the money. Just fuck it. SA has awesome fish and chips and I remember eating them with my husband on the Glenelg or Brighton foreshore many times. Aahhh the memories they were simple times that’s for sure. @zoffiel had a great suggestion so I hope you got your hair sorted too. But if not I happen to like mangy dogs they are quite often the most loving ones around. Big hug to you and your family. Xxx0
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Hi @onemargie Best fish and chips for a long time. Spent the arvo lounging in the water, then watched the sun go down while we were having tea on the foreshore. Lots has happened in the past week but last Saturday has definitely turned a switch in my mood. Still got some of the hair - gotta work out a combover for the funeral - but I don't think it's going to be there much longer.0
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I am wrestling with temperature control in bed at night. I just woke up feeling quite chilly, pulled a light cotton blanket over the doona and instantly boiled. Same with the sleep cap. It goes on, it comes off. Hot flush, then cold chill. Has anyone come up with a good solution to personal temperature variations at night? What's the best thing to sleep under?0
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Sheet, light rug (half on, half off) and an open window nearby - I suffered a lot from night-time flushes for about a year, but never during the day. I recall there was an earlier discussion about cooling pads for the bed.
The funeral was very nice as these things go. Very simple and something to trigger everyone during the service. There was a get-together back at my mother-in-law's afterwards which didn't end until late so by that time I didn't have a sociable bone left in my body and I'm amazed I could drive home. Now, I've been awake since 3:30am.1 -
I forgot, you're in Melbourne! But it does get chilly here in the Adelaide Hills so maybe not too different.0
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Layers, layers, layers...that's the trick. Thinnest layer first, sheet, then thin cotton blanket, (like the hospital ones with the little holes), then a light doonah. Later in winter add a heavier blanket folded at the foot of the bed. Dress very lightly, and not in synthetic. Add and subtract layers as necessary. I also had the most horrendous night sweats, sometimes changing both me and the sheets up to four times a night. Terrible...
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5 years later.... I still sleep in just knickers anything else makes me do the whole off and on again stuff with hot flushes.... and we talking -6* average overnight in winter here. I will pull on a cotton singlet sometimes but I only last about 30 mins then it is stripped off again. Layers I agree with AllyJay....
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I wear nothing but my skin when I sleep!0
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Two beds (three counting the one my partner sleeps in 100km away) The process goes:
- Arrange a variety of carefully chosen layers
- Attend to pre bedtime rituals--swallow pills, prepare chamomile tea, turn fans/heaters off/on
- Retire hopefully while chanting "Please, please, please "
- Wake up bathed in sweat with a sodden pillow simultaneously freezing your arse off because you are soaking wet
- Change all damp bedding
- Move to bed #2
- Return to step 1 and repeat
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