[baileybaby]

Hi to everyone. I am delighted to have found this site. I am a chronic insomniac since I was 23 years, I am now 47, so I have been suffering for the last 24years. I am wreaked to say the least and I look it, I definitely look alot older that my years, which is very depressing and I have missed out so much in my life.

It all really started for me when I moved away from home and started working for an airline. I loved my job, I worked on international and domestic flights which really affects your sleep, because on domestic you have to be up very early in the morning and may work 16 hour days and on international you fly through the night. Also when I was off I travelled home to Ireland, which was a different time zone again. My sleeping during this time was terrible, but, I would not give up the job because I enjoyed it so much. I stayed at the job for 9 years and I eventually had to give it up because I could no longer function. I went for a period of 17 days without any sleep, I was nearly crazy…..

Mind you when I think back to when I went to discos before I started with the airlines, that night I would not sleep well at all and would be wrecked the next day, so there may have been signs of a bad sleeper even then. At that time I did not take much notice. Also my father complained to my mother somedays that he did not sleep the night before, but, she brushed him off by telling him he kept her awake snoring.

Since my time in the airlines, i have been in and out of work due to the sleeping problem. When I do not sleep well particularly continiously I cannot function as the time I have slept gets less and less over a period of days. It has affected my life in so so many ways I could write a book. I have tried many different methods to help the problem without success.

Still hopeful one day I will relearn how to sleep like a baby.

[Martin Reed]

Welcome to Insomnia Land – you no longer need to feel as though you're suffering alone. Our members know what you're going through and we're all here to support one another.

I'm sure you'll find plenty of tips here in the forums, and hopefully you'll be able to share a few of your own, too. I look forward to reading your contributions!

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[SittingStill]

Yikes – that is quite a trial by sleeplessness. There are lots of resources that may offer some help – conventional medical approaches and non-conventional approaches – all are worth considering. Its a little overwhelming, but if you have not started yet, try what makes the most sense for you. Its a trial and error, process of elimination type of approach.

I'm just barely hanging on at work myself – not sure how much longer I'll be hanging on workwise.

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