Sleep
"We know that as many as 6 in 10 cancer survivors have problems of insomnia,
which is up to three times the rate found in the general population."
@SoldierCrab pointed out the Survivorship Center and I found this leaflet in their resources: Can-Sleep making night time sleep problems go away from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center. It's got a lot of very straight forward information as a starting point, but I want to hear what you've found that has helped you, and how you have handled 'the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation' if you've experienced it.
I have felt fatigued, lethargic, and overall exhausted since it all started, and when it all finished (in that it-never-finishes way) I was left feeling not much better. I spent an entire year spending days and sometimes weeks as hit by fog, poor memory, physical weakness, and even nausea as hard as if treatment was starting again.
For me this is a BIG issue. I'm sure I've posted and asked questions about it before, but all the conventional 'tricks' don't seem to cut it.
No caffeine even eight hours before bed, exercise, cut out screen time and cut back on sugar? Done.
[Tosess around for three hours and stares at the ceiling in the darkness for another hour doing the most mundane mind-calming exercises]
Okay, cool, when does the sleep happen. Oh hey it's 6AM, guess I'll get up.
[Fast asleep on the couch by 2, awake by 5, goes to bed at 10PM, wakes up at 3AM]
This is better I guess, I'll stay awake all day and get a really good sleep tonight!
[Falls asleep at 9AM]
...Damn it!
What actually works?
@SoldierCrab pointed out the Survivorship Center and I found this leaflet in their resources: Can-Sleep making night time sleep problems go away from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center. It's got a lot of very straight forward information as a starting point, but I want to hear what you've found that has helped you, and how you have handled 'the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation' if you've experienced it.
I have felt fatigued, lethargic, and overall exhausted since it all started, and when it all finished (in that it-never-finishes way) I was left feeling not much better. I spent an entire year spending days and sometimes weeks as hit by fog, poor memory, physical weakness, and even nausea as hard as if treatment was starting again.
For me this is a BIG issue. I'm sure I've posted and asked questions about it before, but all the conventional 'tricks' don't seem to cut it.
No caffeine even eight hours before bed, exercise, cut out screen time and cut back on sugar? Done.
[Tosess around for three hours and stares at the ceiling in the darkness for another hour doing the most mundane mind-calming exercises]
Okay, cool, when does the sleep happen. Oh hey it's 6AM, guess I'll get up.
[Fast asleep on the couch by 2, awake by 5, goes to bed at 10PM, wakes up at 3AM]
This is better I guess, I'll stay awake all day and get a really good sleep tonight!
[Falls asleep at 9AM]
...Damn it!
What actually works?
