[lisajane.7]

Hiya all,. I'm Lisa and I've been a chronic insomniac for about 3 years! Lol sorry why does that sound like an AA meeting ;D

But seriously, my insomnia started when I became very ill in aug 2009. After a traumatic and difficult life for the 10 years previous. I was finally diagnosed with life threatening thyrotoxocosis

( hyperthyroid, Graves Disease ) over active thyroid.

I, like most of you, have tried all the herbal, alternative and prescription medication. Relaxation CDs and massage.

Some of the sleeping tablets actually made me crazy! And I mean crazy, I was doin things I wasn't aware of, eating like crazy, buying things online, whilst I slept, I was losing 1-2 days at a time!! The worst of it was i was taking my meds whilst in this medicated wakeful sleep, not just once but repeatedly, thinking i had forgot to take them and taking them again and again! Which was very scary!! When my partner came home from work he would find blister packs empty!! I would get very very angry because my family would say things and I would not have a clue we had discussed it!!!

Since becoming ill, I have had to stop work! Which was my vocation, but working shifts and the extreme pressure of my job was dangerous,( midwife) I was goin to work for and early shift at 07.25 and I may not have slept at all for days!!! My memory was crap and my concentration was none exsistent, I walked around with all these things goin on in my head, completely exhausted and getting more unwell by the day!!

My thyroid is still not under control 2 years down the line and I'm having to alter my meds all the time..

I have done lots of things to help with my health, even moving from the midlands to South Wales to a better, safer and calmer way of life! But even that hasn't helped!!

At the dark and desprate hours of the night and early morning, I feel like the only person in the world awake! Almost apocalyptic and I'm the only survivor!!! Except in not, I'm the one that's dying!!!

Apart from all that my life is dandy!!

😀

Lisa x

[Martin Reed]

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[lisajane.7]

Hiya and thanks Martin,

I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone too as like I said this condition is so desprately lonely and soul destroying

Lisa

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