Insomnia Check-In 8/5/2015

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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. (also please let me know if I am missing anyone)
mama2a @led bluerainfire runnergirl812 2kiddos oreille @mschrystalb

*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?

5. GTKY--This check-in is here to help.I'm always open to suggestion.

What types of changes would you like to see done that could help increase participation?

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

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

3. What are you doing to treat or cope? Is it working? Medications. Trying to develop better sleep habits.

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better? Insomnia has been really bad lately. I know it's stress related. My psych gave me the go ahead to take a double dose of Ambien as needed.

5. GTKY--This check-in is here to help.I'm always open to suggestion.

What types of changes would you like to see done that could help increase participation?
Please let me know if the people i'm tagging really want to participate.

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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? Nothing is working. Hence being wide awake less than 3 hours after going to bed.

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

5. GTKY--This check-in is here to help.I'm always open to suggestion.

What types of changes would you like to see done that could help increase participation? No idea. Let me think about it for a while.

[oreille]

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? Forcing myself out of bed early (5:45ish in the mornings) to try to force myself to fall asleep earlier than midnight.

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better? waking up ass-early is helping a little bit, but i don't think I can do it long-term.

5. GTKY--This check-in is here to help.I'm always open to suggestion.

What types of changes would you like to see done that could help increase participation? I have no idea, but I'm happy I found it. My husband is dead asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow every night. It's helpful to know that there are other people who have trouble with sleep.

[lo95]

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

2. Did you always suffer from insomnia or was there a trigger? It started in high school, around the time my dad died and my mom got sick. I would read in the middle of the night if I was enjoying a suspenseful book. Then in college I used it as time to study. Then as an adult I used the time to lesson plan or research fertility things. It's become progressively less healthy as I've gotten older.

3. What are you doing to treat or cope? Is it working? The perks of a newborn are that her schedule dictates my sleep and I found myself able to sleep for a while because I was exhausted. Now that she's sleeping more regularly I am falling back into the old routine. To cope I'm trying to tell myself to sleep when she sleeps or I'll be exhausted, but insomnia is hard to beat with a pep talk.

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better? Being exhausted has helped, but not really a log term solution. I need to get off my phone, but I've not been able to do that successfully because of my anxiety.

[2kiddos]

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

2. Did you always suffer from insomnia or was there a trigger?
I've had it since being diagnosed with depression

3. What are you doing to treat or cope? Is it working?
Ambien at night.  It tends to do the trick

4. Any major break-through lately that has helped you sleep better?
Not really.  Just trying to get my other meds situated.