Who else can't sleep?
Sitting here at 4:15am (CST) after trying since 2:30am to go back to sleep and finally giving up, yet again... Wondering who else is out there this morning, and most mornings at this time?
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Hi @arpie. @Sister, @"Kiwi Angel", @kmakm
Fancy meeting you girls here! You may know me from another conversation. I didn't realise how many of us suffered insomnia. Well, a couple of nights ago I was awake until 3.45am. I am hoping I will be asleep earlier tonight. My husband has to get up at 6.00am to go to work, so I am quietly (shh!) sitting in our spare bedroom typing this. I was always a poor sleeper but since starting chemo and dex it's a whole new world of bug eye! I have had 3 AC treatments and heading towards my 4th next Friday May 25. Up until this week, I have been able to get to sleep but then I wake up around 2/2.30am without a chance of nodding off again until at least 6am, thank goodness I am not working at the moment. Now it seems to have changed and I am restless and can't even get 5 minutes sleep when I go to bed. So I am trialling staying up until exhaustion hits and then go to bed. This new theory may work except for the fact that our next door neighbour (we live in a townhouse complex) chooses to start yelling at her 7 y.o. twins around 6am each morning.....grr :s !!! I seem to have a brain that is generally asleep (chemo brain?) when I am trying to hold a vaguely intelligent conversation with some-one, but that goes from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds when I am trying to sleep. The things I haven't laid in bed and thought about aren't worth mentioning!! Can any-one out there in "sleepless land" possibly offer up any suggestions please? Regards Ann
Fancy meeting you girls here! You may know me from another conversation. I didn't realise how many of us suffered insomnia. Well, a couple of nights ago I was awake until 3.45am. I am hoping I will be asleep earlier tonight. My husband has to get up at 6.00am to go to work, so I am quietly (shh!) sitting in our spare bedroom typing this. I was always a poor sleeper but since starting chemo and dex it's a whole new world of bug eye! I have had 3 AC treatments and heading towards my 4th next Friday May 25. Up until this week, I have been able to get to sleep but then I wake up around 2/2.30am without a chance of nodding off again until at least 6am, thank goodness I am not working at the moment. Now it seems to have changed and I am restless and can't even get 5 minutes sleep when I go to bed. So I am trialling staying up until exhaustion hits and then go to bed. This new theory may work except for the fact that our next door neighbour (we live in a townhouse complex) chooses to start yelling at her 7 y.o. twins around 6am each morning.....grr :s !!! I seem to have a brain that is generally asleep (chemo brain?) when I am trying to hold a vaguely intelligent conversation with some-one, but that goes from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds when I am trying to sleep. The things I haven't laid in bed and thought about aren't worth mentioning!! Can any-one out there in "sleepless land" possibly offer up any suggestions please? Regards Ann