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  • SoldierCrab
    SoldierCrab Member Posts: 3,429 ✭
    Awesome News Fletch onwards and upwards  one day at a time 

  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 8,112 ✭
    On ya, @Fletch !!  xx  Well done
  • Sarnicad
    Sarnicad Member Posts: 318 ✭
    @Fletch congrats on finishing chemo. It is such a good feeling
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,961 ✭
    Isn't it a great feeling @fletch? Well done!
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
    You did it. You made it. All strength to you sista. K xox
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
    I have stopped taking my melatonin for the past few days and find it makes no difference. Stayed up later last night and had a better sleep. Temazepam is the only thing that works and I refuse to take that more than once a week. 
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,961 ✭
    Same here @Kiwi Angel
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
    @Sister the staying up later thing can be a struggle but if I can get to at least 10 or 11 then I get a much better 6-7 hours sleep. 
  • kezmusc
    kezmusc Member Posts: 1,553 ✭
    @Kiwi Angel,  The sleeping thing is a bitch isn't it?  On a good note it does seem to get better over time.  I would say around the 10 month mark.  I only have a couple of nights a week now that are a bit yuk.  I do wake up off an on, normally due to getting overheated or my back, not that lying there staring at the ceiling for no reason feeling. 

    If it's really bad I'll take a couple of mersyndol as the codeine seems to work really well for me.  Probably only need it once a week now.  
    xoxoxo
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
    @kezmusc hopefully some light at the end of the tunnel then  :)
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
    edited October 2018
    I went on my first garden tour today (yep, I'm officially middle aged...) and I wanted to be fresh for it. So I took two Temazepam. It worked. I only woke up once instead of my usual 3 - 5 times.

    @Kiwi Angel My GP told me that they're not sleeping tablets as such. More that they work to reset sleep patterns that have been disturbed. They assist in resetting your sleep cycles. Once you've taken them for a period of time, you're re-regulated and they will no longer be needed or especially effective. K xox
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
    @kmakm did read that shift workers use them a lot. Took a temazepam last night so I got a good sleep and managed to get up and do my 5km run again  :)
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
    You're amazing @Kiwi Angel!
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
    @kmakm loving getting back to my exercise. Some sense of normality returning. 
  • Bbbcm
    Bbbcm Member Posts: 53 ✭
    Haven't posted for a while.....internet problems. we went to mission beach for a weeks holiday last week. I slept so well, listening to the waves and I slept all night. Got home, and haven't slept a full night. I think it is  because when I'm on holiday or away from home, I know I haven't got doctors appointments or nurse visits and I can pretend I'm a normal 53 yr old. the flight was hard cos of my back but worth it. staying positive and I have already started research on my next holiday, to the Barossa valley. Hopefully I will be lurking around the site a bit more if the internet plays nice lol xxx

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