[lily]

Does anyone know the specific cause of their insomnia? If so has it made it easier for you to improve your sleep?

My problem is I have no idea what triggered my insomnia so in my mind it makes it all the harder to treat. I was wondering what other members think on this.

Perhaps there is a common insomnia cause that we can work together to identify?

I am listening!

[Tired Ted]

Hi Lily

Nice to have you with us . . . First of all have you signed up for Martins 2 week sleep programme ? If not make this the first thing you do and and it will change your world . . . Or at least the way you feel about insomnia.

I am one of the lucky ones as I only had insomnia from 7 July 2012 and found Insomnia Land at the end of December and apart from odd days . . . Like today . . . I am now in a much better place.

My insomnia was due to ovarian pain which prevented me sleeping, unless I was totally exhausted and after a long delay in diagnosis I was given treatment which reduced the pain so much I was able to sleep. Great you might think . . . But one of the many side effects of the injection is INSOMNIA ! Getting Martins emails and finding Groggy ( my insomnia buddy ) was just what I needed and I wouldn't say that I am a cured insomniac but rather someone who sleeps in a different way to the majority. I get sleep now but in pockets which I use to top up my sleep bank . . . I tend to sleep c 7.15 pm to 12.30 am and the watch a bit of TV / read / email etc and then go to bed c 2.30 am. Essentially I get the required number of hours sleep but not in one go and once I accepted that this was okay and normal for me my sleep improved significantly because the frustration of not sleeping like everyone else was taken away. The key to my success ( thanks to Martins brilliant guidance ) is to not stay in bed when I can't sleep and I refuse to toss and turn now and am quite happy to get up early doors and occupy myself until I feel I might be able to sleep and then I try again.

I was very fortunate to have Groggy struggling to sleep at the same time as me and we were there for each other in the wee small hours which was a great help to both of us and although I am not always here to post through the night ( because I am in the lovely land of nod ) I will be here to listen to how insomnia is affecting you and offer any advice I can as I know what a huge help this was for me.

One of best things I did was to always have something interesting / relaxing to do when I got up in the middle of the night because I couldnt sleep sleep and in the end I used to look forward to getting up to do my little creative projects so much that I forgot all about insomnia and before I knew where I was I was sleeping fairly well again. I am probably still an insomniac and but not in the usual ” I can't get any sleep ” way and I have learnt to accept and live with insomnia . . . in a way which works for me.

I really hope you get as much out of this website as I have and I am always just at the end of a message / post.

Tired Teddy x

[rusty rake]

I think my insomnia is caused by working shifts. I just cant settle into a routine at all and I think this is why I find sleep difficult.

[Martin Reed]

Great idea for a discussion thread! I believe my insomnia started due to wedding related stress and anxiety… Mainly worrying about how to pay for it all! That was many years ago though and fortunately my sleep has improved significantly since then.

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[lily]

Yes I am on the sleep course and am hoping it will help teach me what causes my insomnia.

[Gegatso]

Chronic anxiety here.

[pamela]

My insomnia started in early 2011, after my husband unexptected abondonded me with an upside down house and loads of debt, for a new job, new life, new house, new wife….fun stuff!!! I tried lots of different kinds of sleep pills, breathing, meditation, white noise etc… nothing was “magic”, but eventually I developed a sleep routine. Although, my sleep still has not returned to normal, I've just been dealing with little sleep or bad sleep since then, but I get by. I can relate to one other post, where sometimes I feel I have to “exhaust” myself, to sleep through the whole night, with no pills or sleep “help”. But recently I got a steriod shot to help with sinus infection, the steroids kept me wide awake for 3 full days, feeling very jittery! So now I'm back to a really messed up sleep routine. I'm taking 1/2 pill of tylenol PM and drinking sleepy time tea with Valarian Root and that seems to help me sleep all night, but I wake very groggy. But it's better than feeling like i'm going to faint, seeing spots, dizzy, headaches, vergigo, nausua etc…which comes from perscription sleep pills and/or no sleep. It seem strange to me that all the perscription sleep pills I tried left me with basically the same feeling the next day, as if I had stayed awake all night, for several nights in a row. Sorry so long and drawn out…. I guess the answer to your question is nervousness, anxiety, worry, anger, depression, thought hopping….which leads to a bad sleep pattern. Once the pattern is developed from stress, it's not always easy to get back to a good pattern.

[pamela]

My insomnia started in early 2011, after my husband unexptected abondonded me with an upside down house and loads of debt, for a new job, new life, new house, new wife….fun stuff!!! I tried lots of different kinds of sleep pills, breathing, meditation, white noise etc… nothing was “magic”, but eventually I developed a sleep routine. Although, my sleep still has not returned to normal, I've just been dealing with little sleep or bad sleep since then, but I get by. I can relate to one other post, where sometimes I feel I have to “exhaust” myself, to sleep through the whole night, with no pills or sleep “help”. But recently I got a steriod shot to help with sinus infection, the steroids kept me wide awake for 3 full days, feeling very jittery! So now I'm back to a really messed up sleep routine. I'm taking 1/2 pill of tylenol PM and drinking sleepy time tea with Valarian Root and that seems to help me sleep all night, but I wake very groggy. But it's better than feeling like i'm going to faint, seeing spots, dizzy, headaches, vergigo, nausua etc…which comes from perscription sleep pills and/or no sleep. It seem strange to me that all the perscription sleep pills I tried left me with basically the same feeling the next day, as if I had stayed awake all night, for several nights in a row. Sorry so long and drawn out…. I guess the answer to your question is nervousness, anxiety, worry, anger, depression, thought hopping….which leads to a bad sleep pattern. Once the pattern is developed from stress, it's not always easy to get back to a good pattern.

[Pufferpunk]

I was born with it.

What's the Martins 2 week sleep program?

[Tired Ted]

I cannot recommend Martin's sleep programme highly enough . . . You get emails suggesting ways to combat insomnia every day for 2 weeks and they have changed my world . . . I am still awake anytime between midnight and 2 am ( or later, like today ) but I now view sleep, or rather the lack of it differently. Thanks to Martin's invaluable emails I have found a way to accept and live with insomnia, without getting anxious, or frustrated about it and I honestly believe that this is half of the battle with insomnia.

Martins programme is free so you have nothing to lose by enrolling but hopefully lots to gain . . . Even if it doesn't change your world like it did mine, you will, at the very least, pick up a few things that will really help.

Tired Ted

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