Help Terrible Insomnia

[Vasconcelos]

Knackered.

Thats the only word to describe how I feel after sleeping 4 hours in the last 72hrs.

I just dont know whats going on, suddenly the other day I woke up at 4am in the morning, gods know why, after going to bed at 1am. The following day, even despite being super tired and after playing a footy game, I couldnt sleep a single hour. And finaly, last nite, when I thought it couldnt be worse, i barely managed to sleep 1hr.

Im feeling so shitty as Im writing this, that sometimes I feel like if I was drunk or high, all dizzy and anoyed. Not to mention my mood right now at work.

Cantthink of a reason. Im not passing a tough time at work, dont have any personal problems lately, still doing the same every day stuff I used to do 2 weeks ago... Dunno, could it be videogaming???

Thus, I appeal to the oh! mighty wisdom of the FH ascendants!! Gimme a solution besides taking sleeping pills (dont rly want to become adicted to them, as Ive tried muscular relaxing pills several times and the risk is there)

 

[Laddey]

Sleeping tabs could maybe work? Try speaking to your doctor although i'm not a great fan of tamazis and shit they prescribe.

It may not be your thing, infact i highy doubt it is, but you could try chonging on a spliff? May not be do able but it was worth the suggestion.

 

[Urgluf]

wank before you go to bed.

 

[Laddey]

wank before you go to bed.

Agree 100%. Sounds daft but it makes you tired when you junk!

 

[Sparx]

i suffer from this too, have done for a couple of years now, stop doing anything in bed other than sleeping, no watching TV etc, set a time to get up no matter how tired you are you still get up. It will right your body clock.

i also found playing COD too late stopped me from unwinding properly before bed

 

[old.Tohtori]

Don't think about it and go straight to bed when you get the yawns.

If you lie there "I hope i sleep now!" at certain time, when not even tired, you'll just get pissed off and even more f*cked up.

Head, pillow, shut up and sleep

 

[Fast]

I cured my insomnia habit by, cutting out caffeine completely and also very little sugar in my diet.

Video games can contribute imo, the ammount of times i used to go to bed and i would be running around quake maps in my head for an hour before i could sleep. Also spent a few hours awake thinking about daoc templates and items lol.

If i can't sleep now its a book and firm stance on the mind set of telling myself i don't give a shit about not being able to sleep, and if i need the day off tomorrow because of it so be it, kinda tricks my brain to sleep.

I've not had insomnia issues for 3years or so now.

 

[Marc]

Im the opposite, I can fall asleep anytime I want. If I wanted to I could fall asleep right now. Its not that im tired all the time, far from it, I have just mastered the art of falling asleep. Its mint when our lass is boring me. I just fall asleep.

As for your problem Vasc, do you work out a lot? This is a classic cause of insomnia. Any heavy physical activity in the evening can make it uber hard to sleep.

 

[Vasconcelos]

As for your problem Vasc, do you work out a lot? This is a classic cause of insomnia. Any heavy physical activity in the evening can make it uber hard to sleep.

Hmmm I recently resumed to work out after 4 years of impasse due to my hernia..... and yes, usualy Monday, Wednesday and Friday's evenings unless I have footy....

But does it mean I should stop working out or wil my body get used to it after some weeks and recover my original sleep routine??

 

[Moriath]

melatonin fortehwin works great for me

 

[Lamp]

have you recently given up smoking?

 

[Vasconcelos]

have you recently given up smoking?

Never smoked (1 ciggy when I was 16 to try it).

On a side note, tonite I went to bed at 00:00. No cafeine during the whole day, went to the gym way earlier in the afternoon, and didnt hit the bed right after videogaming, instead, I stopped at 22:00, watched last Heroes episode and had super.

Well, I felt asleep pretty soon after hitting the pillow, but once again, I woke up in the middle of the nite. Didnt watch the alarmclock, but by the sound of the street it could be 3am or so. With a tremendous effort and willforce I managed to stay at bed veeeeeeery still, making my mind go blank, and at the end I felt asleep again. I might have slept almost 7hrs!!!!!. First morning in 10 days that the alarmclock wakes me up!! Never in my life I thought I would say this

 

[cHodAX]

I feel your pain, my last bout was 6 months ago and it took me nearly a month to get my energy levels right afterwards.