[Ms.Red]

Some nights I find myself sitting in bed wondering what's the point to even trying to sleep? It's the same thing over and over again. I lie in bed for who knows how long, finally fall asleep, constantly wake up. Every now and then I find myself purposefully staying up. So um heh just wondering what your thoughts were. : P

[Kik]

Yeah, I get that. In my case, I'm too tired to do anything productive at night but I can't sleep so the whole process feels like one big waste of time that I should be spending doing anything else.

I've considering trying to take day naps so I can get better use of the hours at night, but I'm torn between my frustration of insomnia and feeling unsociable at having a reversed bodyclock to everyone else.

Doesn't help that the last few nights I've had where I've been lucid at night, I've managed to produce some pretty good work 🙁

[emmaree]

Me, I'm fed up, I haven't been well lately and my sleep has suffered. I'm totally living on 2 hours and my brain is so foggy I feel like this grey cloud has come and settled over my mind

Hate this any suggestions anyone

[seenafterscene]

In particular, these past few weeks, since much of my time has been spent tossing and turning in bed, or just lying there (thank you to my iPod for keeping me company, oh, and my stuffed animals.) Like I just went through a bout recently, I'm still three hours into my day and trying to catch up from all the “lost” time. I honestly think if one added up the time I was (awake) and lying in bed, versus times spent outside of bed, that the bed would win.

I DO find naps helpful (indeed, essential for me on a daily basis–sleep or not)…but it's not something I would suggest to everyone, from what I hear, most people find it makes falling asleep at night even worse–or you get the wonderful thing happening of waking up at like 3amn.

Someone else posted a thread about “forcing yourself to stay awake” or even “willingly” staying awake (like refusing to sleep.) I experience it regularly, and based on the threads a lot of other people do too, Ms. Red, so you're not alone.

[Mike Hooker]

Back when my insomnia was about six years old (about 1985), I was still awake at 3:30 one morning. I'd been trying to fall asleep as we all do, but I couldn't.

I was pacing the floor wondering how I was going to face yet another day of little or no sleep. I was so fed up with not sleeping that I kicked the foot rest of our living room recliner with my left foot. The impact was on the joint of my big toe. It hurt then, and it still hurts 25 years later.

If I drop something on it or bump it against something, the pain is severe. Over the years it's developed a knot, and the knot keeps getting bigger. It's growing slowly, but growing nonetheless.

I complained about it to my doctor a couple of years ago. He had it X-rayed, but found nothing. One day last year I tried on a pair of cowboy boots. When I slid my left foot in that tight leather, I nearly screamed. I'm not a western-wear kind of person, but I do like cowboy boots. But now I can't even wear them.

Just this past two weeks I've been trying to break in a new pair of work shoes. It's been tough going. I've had to stretch the left shoe every night just to get it over my foot the next day.

I've been taking my old work shoes with me every day. I can make it about 4 to 5 hours with my new shoes and then I have to change into my old ones.

My job requires me to do a lot of walking, which I know doesn't help my condition. I've placed a bid on a tractor-trailer driving job within the company I work for. If I get it, the wear and tear on my foot will be lessened quite a bit.

And just think…without insomnia I wouldn't have all of this “fun” stuff to write about. What would I do without my insomnia?

[MarinaFournier]

'Kik' wrote on '15:

Yeah, I get that. In my case, I'm too tired to do anything productive at night but I can't sleep so the whole process feels like one big waste of time that I should be spending doing anything else.

Hate that. I feel the same way when that happens.

[MarinaFournier]

'Mike wrote on '05:

I complained about it to my doctor a couple of years ago. He had it X-rayed, but found nothing. One day last year I tried on a pair of cowboy boots. When I slid my left foot in that tight leather, I nearly screamed. I'm not a western-wear kind of person, but I do like cowboy boots. But now I can't even wear them.

And just think…without insomnia I wouldn't have all of this “fun” stuff to write about. What would I do without my insomnia?

As to that last, sleep? Be more productive?

I finally saw a podiatrist. I thought I had plantar fasciitus, as I had had several years before. This time none of the exercises were helping. He Xrayed my feet. Underneath my inflamed Achilles tendon, I have a bone spur on my right foot, which will get scraped off on NYE–doing it in 2011 would have a greater financial impact on us. I will be unable to put weight on that foot for 4-6 weeks–no driving for how much longer, I do not know. My MiL would help schlep me places, but she and I both have vans, and no way will I be able to get into one without using both feet. I suppose I'll be taking taxis when I have appoiontments.

I wish I'd seen a podiatrist when it felt like my right foot was reassembling itself, or my arch, normally quite high, was falling–dunno what was happening, and I *should* have gone to one.

You may want to visit one, yourself. A visit might result in pain relief, if not correction of the underlying cause. Would you believe mine was recommended to me by a complete stranger at a garden center? I thought she had PF, but it was her knees. She had foot surgery 16 years ago, but still had the guy's card in her wallet! I called the next weekday.

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