11/2/15 -Not so Bi-Weekly Insomnia Check-In

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Welcome to the sort of bi-weekly insomnia check-in.
If you would like to be added to this check-ins, please send me a PM so that I can tag you in the future. (Please let me know if I am missing anyone)
mama2a @led runnergirl812 2kiddos oreille Ray lo95 @ummaggie2

*We encourage all who are currently struggling with or recovering/recovered from insomnia to join us.*


1. Are you a current, recovering or recovered insomnia sufferer?

2. Did you always suffer from insomnia or was there a trigger?

3. What are you doing to treat or cope? Is it working?

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better?


This time i've included a delightful e-card. Hope you enjoy.

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1. Are you a current, recovering or recovered insomnia sufferer? Current.

2. Did you always suffer from insomnia or was there a trigger? Always.

3. What are you doing to treat or cope? Is it working? Not much at the moment. Anxiety is a big part of it and I'm off all my anxiety meds, so it's been kind of rough.

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better? Nope. But I could really use one.

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1. Are you a current, recovering or recovered insomnia sufferer? Current.

2. Did you always suffer from insomnia or was there a trigger? After having DD almost 2 years ago.

3. What are you doing to treat or cope? Is it working? I'm taking multi vitamins as well as extra magnesium per my naturopath's suggestion. My insomnia has gotten better gradually, but I still struggle with falling asleep quite a bit.

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better? nothing really, unfortunately.

DD has been waking up at least once a night the past couple weeks, which really threw a wrench in my sleep cycle. I think she Just had stuffy nose from a cold but I got irrationally upset and pessimistic (I will never sleep well again type negative thoughts). She's almost 2 and I felt like we were back to her newborn phase which is when my sleep issues began to get worse. MH suggested letting her just cry it out, but she's started taking her jammies and diaper off at night because she doesn't like the feeling of a wet diaper. So frustrating.

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1. Are you a current, recovering or recovered insomnia sufferer? Current

2. Did you always suffer from insomnia or was there a trigger? Always

3. What are you doing to treat or cope? Is it working? I'm 15 weeks pregnant, and I was excited because generally since my BFP I've been falling asleep more easily. My issue was generally always falling asleep--once I went to sleep I could stay asleep okay. The past two nights in a row I've woken up between 1:30 and 2:30am and just been wide awake. The first night I was not stressing, not racing, not worried. . .just awake, as if it were time to get up in the morning. Tonight of course I'm stressing because I'm worried that this is becoming a pattern.

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better? I bought a coloring book and colored pencils on amazon to try to see if they help quiet my mind. This whole thing is frustrating.

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Great idea oreille! I have a colouring book and love it.

1. Current - working towards recovering??

2. Insomnia started when I was put on Prestiq a month ago.

3. I honestly haven't really been doing anything in particular. I read a bit sometimes, sometimes I do a bit of yoga before bed.

4. I think as my body is adjusting to the Prestiq the insomnia is starting to diminish. I am still waking up once t twice a night, and not really sleeping past 5 but I can generally get back to sleep pretty quickly. I am feeling a lot better than the first couple weeks and hoping that this positive continues.

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It's been a bad week here. Daylight savings had little to no effect on my kids, but it's completely screwed up with my sleep for some reason. On top of that, MH has been going to work super early and always rouses me up from sleep. Normally I had been able to get back to sleep for at least a little bit, but now nothing.

I've been either getting stage 1 sleep or 2-3 hours per night max. I feel very defeated. This insomnia thing has been going on for a year now with no end in sight. So many things have been tried and no results. My sleep issues are starting to affect my marriage as well. MH is super understanding but I'm just always in foul mood. Especially in the morning when he happens to wake me up. Ugh.

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Nov 9, 2015 10:19:33 GMT -5 @ummaggie2 said:

It's been a bad week here. Daylight savings had little to no effect on my kids, but it's completely screwed up with my sleep for some reason. On top of that, MH has been going to work super early and always rouses me up from sleep. Normally I had been able to get back to sleep for at least a little bit, but now nothing.

I've been either getting stage 1 sleep or 2-3 hours per night max. I feel very defeated. This insomnia thing has been going on for a year now with no end in sight. So many things have been tried and no results. My sleep issues are starting to affect my marriage as well. MH is super understanding but I'm just always in foul mood. Especially in the morning when he happens to wake me up. Ugh.

Have you seen a sleep specialist or had a sleep study? If you're truly only getting stage 1 sleep that could be a huge issue health-wise. You should get that checked out.

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Nov 9, 2015 16:28:48 GMT -5 @led said:

Nov 9, 2015 10:19:33 GMT -5 @ummaggie2 said:

It's been a bad week here. Daylight savings had little to no effect on my kids, but it's completely screwed up with my sleep for some reason. On top of that, MH has been going to work super early and always rouses me up from sleep. Normally I had been able to get back to sleep for at least a little bit, but now nothing.

I've been either getting stage 1 sleep or 2-3 hours per night max. I feel very defeated. This insomnia thing has been going on for a year now with no end in sight. So many things have been tried and no results. My sleep issues are starting to affect my marriage as well. MH is super understanding but I'm just always in foul mood. Especially in the morning when he happens to wake me up. Ugh.

Have you seen a sleep specialist or had a sleep study? If you're truly only getting stage 1 sleep that could be a huge issue health-wise. You should get that checked out.

I concur.

Sorry. A little late to the check-in this week.

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Nov 9, 2015 10:19:33 GMT -5 @ummaggie2 said:

It's been a bad week here. Daylight savings had little to no effect on my kids, but it's completely screwed up with my sleep for some reason. On top of that, MH has been going to work super early and always rouses me up from sleep. Normally I had been able to get back to sleep for at least a little bit, but now nothing.

I've been either getting stage 1 sleep or 2-3 hours per night max. I feel very defeated. This insomnia thing has been going on for a year now with no end in sight. So many things have been tried and no results. My sleep issues are starting to affect my marriage as well. MH is super understanding but I'm just always in foul mood. Especially in the morning when he happens to wake me up. Ugh.

MH always wake me up too. He tries to understand but still has a hard time wrapping his head around the nuiances of my sleep disorder.

Have you talked to him about changing up his routine in the mornings? I've had to do with MH because he was turning on all the lights at 4 am.

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I'm so exhausted and I still can't seem to fall asleep. I need to talk to my psychiatrist about a substitute for my anxiety meds. Doing without is just not working. I've been doing better sleep-wise recently, but still not great. It takes me about 12 hours of laying in bed trying to sleep to get 4-5 hours of sleep.

I also think I need to increase my AP, but I really don't want to. It's probably adding to my sleep problems, though. The other night I had a pretty bad panic attack because my paranoia was getting pretty out of control and tonight I'm having trouble relaxing because I've started having a few hallucinations return. I'm not sure if it's just from lack of sleep or because increased blood volume makes the meds less effective or some combination of the two.

Well now I just feel like I'm rambling, but whatever.

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@led - I hope your psych can find something for you.

[Ray]

I'm late. Big hugs @led when can you get in to see him next? FX you two can find a solution. I'm glad to hear you e been sleeping better if not great. My insomnia has come back full force. I'm thinking it's because I switched my anxiety meds.

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Nov 19, 2015 7:31:25 GMT -5 Ray said:

I'm late. Big hugs @led when can you get in to see him next? FX you two can find a solution. I'm glad to hear you e been sleeping better if not great. My insomnia has come back full force. I'm thinking it's because I switched my anxiety meds.

I see him on the 4th, but I talked to him yesterday about the referral to the specialist since it still hasn't gone through and he said I should up i the haldol by 2mg until I see him next and we'll see how it's working. So hopefully that's enough. If I'm still not sleeping much I doubt it will be though.

I'm sorry your insomnia is worse again. Hopefully the new med will start helping soon. What did they switch you to?

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Big hugs to those who have been suffering. It's been a tough month for me, especially after the daylight savings time change and weather change. I have been having less trouble falling asleep the last few days. But of course my 22 month old daughter decided to start waking up nightly. It's so frustrating. Finally when my sleep started getting better. And she's been refusing MH when he goes in to comfort her, so it's all on me now.

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Nov 19, 2015 8:22:59 GMT -5 @led said:

Nov 19, 2015 7:31:25 GMT -5 Ray said:

I'm late. Big hugs @led when can you get in to see him next? FX you two can find a solution. I'm glad to hear you e been sleeping better if not great. My insomnia has come back full force. I'm thinking it's because I switched my anxiety meds.

I see him on the 4th, but I talked to him yesterday about the referral to the specialist since it still hasn't gone through and he said I should up i the haldol by 2mg until I see him next and we'll see how it's working. So hopefully that's enough. If I'm still not sleeping much I doubt it will be though.

I'm sorry your insomnia is worse again. Hopefully the new med will start helping soon. What did they switch you to?

They took me off of Prestiq and put me on Zoloft. As part of the transition plan I took both yesterday so I'm hoping that's the reason behind it being particularly bad last night?

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Nov 19, 2015 20:42:52 GMT -5 Ray said:

Nov 19, 2015 8:22:59 GMT -5 @led said:

I see him on the 4th, but I talked to him yesterday about the referral to the specialist since it still hasn't gone through and he said I should up i the haldol by 2mg until I see him next and we'll see how it's working. So hopefully that's enough. If I'm still not sleeping much I doubt it will be though.

I'm sorry your insomnia is worse again. Hopefully the new med will start helping soon. What did they switch you to?

They took me off of Prestiq and put me on Zoloft. As part of the transition plan I took both yesterday so I'm hoping that's the reason behind it being particularly bad last night?

Maybe? Could also just be pregnancy related. Or an increase in anxiety due to switching. Either way, hopefully it sorts itself out quickly.

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So i'm wide awake at 3 am because just as I was getting sleepy MH in a very frustrated tone yelled out, "I'm going to kill you." in his sleep.

I immediately woke him up to figure out what happened because it was little odds. It turns out was having a weird dream about a work site (Most likely because he's stressed out and frustrated about his current job situation). It wasn't directed towards me at all and he felt terrible for startling me, but he's already fast asleep again. Me, not so much.

And he's snoring like crazy. Ugh.

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Nov 24, 2015 2:58:50 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

So i'm wide awake at 3 am because just as I was getting sleepy MH in a very frustrated tone yelled out, "I'm going to kill you." in his sleep.

I immediately woke him up to figure out what happened because it was little odds. It turns out was having a weird dream about a work site (Most likely because he's stressed out and frustrated about his current job situation). It wasn't directed towards me at all and he felt terrible for startling me, but he's already fast asleep again. Me, not so much.

And he's snoring like crazy. Ugh.

Ugh that sucks FX things get better for him at work and for you to be able to sleep. When DH gets snoring I usually go downstairs onto the couch with my dogs lol

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Nov 24, 2015 9:23:20 GMT -5 Ray said:

Nov 24, 2015 2:58:50 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

So i'm wide awake at 3 am because just as I was getting sleepy MH in a very frustrated tone yelled out, "I'm going to kill you." in his sleep.

I immediately woke him up to figure out what happened because it was little odds. It turns out was having a weird dream about a work site (Most likely because he's stressed out and frustrated about his current job situation). It wasn't directed towards me at all and he felt terrible for startling me, but he's already fast asleep again. Me, not so much.

And he's snoring like crazy. Ugh.

Ugh that sucks FX things get better for him at work and for you to be able to sleep. When DH gets snoring I usually go downstairs onto the couch with my dogs lol

Since i'm at my ILs sleeping on the couch isn't an option.

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Right duh. Sorry

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Still not sleeping. I'm staying my sister's tonight and her couch is not help me sleep. Ugh.

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It's only a little after 11p, but I can already feel another sleepless night starting. The Insomnia's bad enough, but without my pain meds sleep is getting more and more difficult. I'm really hoping to avoid steroids, but I feel like I may not have much of a choice soon.

One of the clinics that I go to offers yoga classes every Thursday, I'm thinking I'll probably start going to those in hopes it helps a little. Or at least once or twice. Until I inevitably decide that I hate everyone there and don't feel like being social.

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I'm so tired, I really thought I would finally be able to get a lot of sleep tonight. But it's 3a and no matter what I do I just can't fall asleep. I'm about half a step from just breaking down and crying because I'm so tired, but I still can't sleep. I only even managed to get out of bed because I had to pee. Ugh. This shit has to stop. I'm getting desperate. I see my psych on Friday and hopefully he can help.

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Well, after whining and crying and waking H up at 6am, he managed to snuggle me to sleep for about an hour. I'm feeling so much better, but know I still need more sleep than that. I plan to try and get a nap this afternoon.

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@led any improvement

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Dec 3, 2015 0:58:20 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

@led any improvement

It's 2:20a and i can't sleep. I did manage to fall asleep at like 10p for a few minutes, but then h got home and made a bunch of noise. I've been struggling since.

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Dec 3, 2015 5:24:36 GMT -5 @led said:

Dec 3, 2015 0:58:20 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

@led any improvement

It's 2:20a and i can't sleep. I did manage to fall asleep at like 10p for a few minutes, but then h got home and made a bunch of noise. I've been struggling since.

Ugh. We must be on the same sleep schedule. H is currently torturing me with some weird whistle/snore thing. It's awful.

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Dec 4, 2015 0:40:08 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

Dec 3, 2015 5:24:36 GMT -5 @led said:

It's 2:20a and i can't sleep. I did manage to fall asleep at like 10p for a few minutes, but then h got home and made a bunch of noise. I've been struggling since.

Ugh. We must be on the same sleep schedule. H is currently torturing me with some weird whistle/snore thing. It's awful.

Can you nudge him to get him to stop for a bit? That works drive me crazy! I hope you're able to get some sleep.

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Dec 4, 2015 1:22:49 GMT -5 @led said:

Dec 4, 2015 0:40:08 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

Ugh. We must be on the same sleep schedule. H is currently torturing me with some weird whistle/snore thing. It's awful.

Can you nudge him to get him to stop for a bit? That works drive me crazy! I hope you're able to get some sleep.

I usually do, but I don't get much of a reprieve.

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Well, yesterday I actually managed to get almost 5 hours of sleep! I was hoping it meant I was over with the incredibly shitty also patterns I've been in, but apparently not.

I really hope this gets better soon.