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?

I love this cartoon by Michael Leunig, 'The Great Whale of Doom'. Here's to sardines on toast!

Dear Bandicoot. Get in the car, go to the beach. Eat chips without the fish and while you are on a roll, walk into a barber and say ''Get rid of this mess, please.' I get it with everyone wanting you to keep your hair. Really, I do. But there comes a time when you have tried your best, have done everything you can, and it not going to work. There comes a time when this is not about anyone else. It's about you and what is going to make your overly complicated life easier. One thing about bald, it's easy :)Marg xxx

my chill out (leave me the f*** alone for 5 mins) spot.

I have been diagnosed 2 weeks ago, waiting for surgery date, problems with sleeping as well, evenings and nights I am the most worried, simply scared about all the uncertainty. Especially if I am on a morning shift, I get anxious because I can't sleep but need the sleep. My mind totally rejects movies at present, so I dug up an old pastime for anxious times: jig saw puzzling, started yesterday on a beautiful scene with sparkling river running over rocks, a church and snowy mountains on the horizon. It felt soothing just looking at the cool running water, especially since around Tamworth everything is bone dry at the moment. I jig saw puzzled, had cup of herbal tea, till I felt really tired, then fell into bed, I did not think about my cancer for the whole time and had a restful sleep. Thank you everyone for posting, it helps not to feel alone,

Slept well in hospital here again. Bit of awake time at 2am for an hour, then land of zzzzz again until 5am. Claire on nightshift saw my light was on and brought me a cuppa......angel! o:)

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Giovanna_BCNA
Member
7 years ago
Hello @Sister what great news, I hope that you are recovering well after your last chemotherapy treatment.

'Who else cant sleep?'  This has been an amazing thread started by yourself @Sister. Can you believe it was on 23 February! The thread has had 10.7K views and 1.2k comments which is over 80 online pages of discussion!

This has been a really great and valuable discussion and I am aware of how much of an issue lack of sleep is for our online community. I certainly dont want to stop discussion regarding sleep but will need to close this thread as Im sure you will all agree it is just as its too long. We have had feedback from members that they can find it difficult to find information as the posts are very long and often include lots of different topics. We are going to be a bit more diligent about keeping posts shorter on track so you will notice us splitting or closing discussions a bit more (don’t worry, we won’t close them in the middle of interesting discussion!)

So that new and current members can find information about how best to manage sleeplessness, Im going to review the posts in this discussion and compile a tip sheet from our online community. I would encourage you to continue this discussion in new threads as I know it’s such an important issue and concern for you.  We will also provide the link to the Can-Sleep information from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as soon as its available.
Below is some information regarding sleep, that I found on Cancer Council New South Wales website.
https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/podcasts/episode-12-sleep-cancer/
JJ70
Member
7 years ago
@Sister that is a great way to get through some post chemo hours - unconscious!! May you have many more nights like that coming up until you are through the worst of it. x
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
@Sister Heaven!
Kiwi_Angel
Member
7 years ago
@sister that’s a great sleep. I meant to try a temazapam last night but forgot!
Sister
Member
7 years ago
Slept from 9pm until 5:30am (with a short wake up at 2am) with the help of codeine a couple of hours before bed then 2 temazapam.
Kiwi_Angel
Member
7 years ago
Wide awake at 3am - finally decided to get up at 5 - very annoying.
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
@"Kiwi Angel" Not yet. The Magnesium chelate is doing the job at the moment. It's driven the pain down to bearable levels. Unless it's subsiding anyway. I shall come off it in a few weeks and see what happens.
Sister
Member
7 years ago
My kids named Storm. What we didn't know when we picked him up from the shelter and they were choosing his name, was that there was a wild storm happening at our house.
Kiwi_Angel
Member
7 years ago
@finch I had a tabby cat called Tabby so Im even worse than you ;-)
Finch
Member
7 years ago
Sweet .... Ours was a white cat called Snowy . We are not that original with names :)