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Thanks Martin will have a look finally got a couple of hours around 4am I think it was.
Something happened here which left me deeply hurt and upset and I thought after it was all sorted I would sleep like a baby but apparently not will hvae a look through your links and see if that helps tonight
thanks Cherrychapstik will look into mindfulness too. Haha Solitaire is usually my end result too 🙂
'sleepy wrote on '14:Not such a bad idea for us Europeans. Although I have no idea were to hold the party. You're always welcome here in Belgium!
Ooh I love Belgium we went on holiday a few years ago and loved it, would love to go back one year. My sister in law is from Belgium I cant remember where though I have the worlds worst memory.
'MarinaFournier' wrote on '14:I want to go to Scotland! Admittedly, I haven't been there in winter, but I'd rather deal with cold & SAD in Scotland than rain, SAD & subduction zones in the Seattle/Vancouver area.
Can't remember, Elfin, did you say you're near Glasgow? I do understand Glaswegian, actually, even if it's only 9 in 10 words. Eventually I'll have the accent in my ear enough to understand them all. I watched Taggart for a while on BBC America, and 'dovecote' was one that took me a few minutes to get. I remember in 1977 or therabouts, just out of college with no car, wanting to go to a concert that Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger were giving. I managed to get a ride with a woman who also wanted to go, and I remember having little problem with the Scots/Lowland words & accent. I had been listening to their music, and other Scottish song in the last four years, so my ear was largely attuned. The woman who drove understood manybe 2 words in 10!
Of course, if you're not from the SW of Scotland, then I'll have no problem understanding the locals, as long as they don't try to conning me into buying more singlemalt than I can legally take home. It IS a weakness of mine, but it's Islay malt that does it for me.
Martin, how far are you from Ashland? Perhaps we could converge and take in a Shakespeare play…
Hi we live in the north of Scotland near Inverness if you have ever heard of it. I however am English and have the worst accent ever haha but my husband and children are all Scottish. We have just moved back here after my husband came out of the RAF and the children have all started picking up the local accent and will sound like their granny in no time.
'Martin' wrote on '06:Maybe we need a North American party and a European party and we can hook them both up via live Webcam!
There was me hoping for a holiday lmao
OK I have changed my mind I think there should be a party held here in Scotland in fact at my house and we can turn it into a painting party :))) because this decorating lark is taking FOREVER and we could all get it done in one night hehe 😆
Haha I am a bit of a SF fan myself.
Sams gasping is either down to a viral thing or he has a floppy larynx. Either or he will be fine but it was flipping scary I can tell you.
Martin sleep is a bit up and down to be honest I have had good nights and not so good nights. There has been so much going on here I am trying to get the house decorated while my husband works night shifts and look after 7 children, and in all honesty I am probably consuming way too much caffeine.
Hope you are guys are all well x
'Martin' wrote on '30:So where are we going to hold the first Insomnia Land party?!
Not here in Scotland way too cold :0)
On the whole temperature thing, I like the window open at night I find the air too still when its closed. I also like my room to be very cool but I cant stand the noise of a fan. I am a very light sleeper and any consistent noise keeps me awake so ticking clocks are banned from my house.
I also have to have a duvet I cant sleep with anything else. Hmm ok I am just too picky.
On the off topic of Thundercats, I loved that as a kids they really do need to bring it back.
I find I read a lot too, I also have the laptop on and if shes on chat to my friend in Australia. I have been known at times to break out the ironing board and do my ironing (Only when I am REALLY desperate mind) other times I just lay there and mind just goes round and round in circles. Mostly I end up with one line of a song stuck in my head that I cannot get rid of.
Just read this, I also have to go several times a night but I put this down to the fact that I am still feeding my son and I still need a drink at night. But I find it hard to get back to sleep afterwards especially if I have been in a really deep sleep.
'MarinaFournier' wrote on '26:I hope some of the older children are pitching in to help with the younger: the fate of older kids in a larger family. How long have your post partum bouts of insomnia lasted before?
While I was nursing my son, I seemed to find a “wormhole” into which I could drop myself and drop off, but it didn't last past nursing. At 11 months, it was clear I needed to go on an anti-depressant, and wean him. Wish I could have nursed him longer, but I really needed relief from the deppression.
I can understand not liking warm milk–mine had better be hot and flavored, even if only vanilla extract. I'd think that decaf black tea with lots of milk is also right out, due to the milk part!
I'm also dealing with thyroid issues, and have been for years: I'm on 125mcg of synthroid these days. One's blood sugar can also affect daytime sleepiness–but I'm not sure what mine is from, unless it's psychologically triggered from seeking avoidance. No way to reall measure that.
I know a wee dram of the local product, Highland or Speyside, won't help. Only time I drink blended or quasi-blended whisky is when I have a cough to quell–and I have to drink rather more than a dram for that. I am allergic to codeine and vicodin, and those are, in the US, the only strong ingredients in prescrption cough suppresants. I'm an Islay girl, though–love that phenolic smoky taste, which is found in the tea world as Lapsang Souchong.
Do look over some of our collection (okay, Martin's) of attempts at insomnia cures, and see what non-chemistry ones might work for you. As to exercise, the only one that makes me sleepy, as opposed to worn out, is swimming in a heated pool (especially in your weather!), which we only have in high summer (the old sun), due to the high cost of heating that much water in the face of cold air and ground.
Marina
Campbell, CA (next to San Jose)
Hi Marina thankyou for your reply
I must admit my older children are fantastic and they do help me out especially as my husband works night shift 5 days a week.
I have never had this post partum insomnia before, this is the first time I have ever had it right after having a baby.
I really love swimming and hopefully when Sam is a little bigger I can get a family member to come and babysit a couple of times a week so I can go. Sadly I dont have an awful lot of support up here, they seem to offer it to my sister in law who has one child. She is lovely though and would help me if I really needed it.
As for whiskey I really really dont like it so dont think I could go down that route. 🙂
I will sit and have a good look through the ideas on here. I am just getting over the flu so I can now sit and have a good look.
Thankyou again x
'Baron' wrote on '19:hi, elfin–welcome! my first thought was the same as martin's: with seven kids, how could you get any sleep at all?! you must be supermom.
i see you have the temazepam prescription. pretty standard fare. i hear good things about soma, as well.
i don't know how well “warm milk” is supposed to work; i don't like warm milk, either. but your doctor wasn't wrong that exercise can help. especially the right kind of exercise at the right time of the day. you should go over it with your doctor. have you tried natural supplements like melatonin? have you also had a hormone blood panel done to see if your levels are in the normal range? i'm a thyroid sufferer, and when my levels are unstable, my sleep patterns will change.
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Hi Baron
I agree the exercise does work providing I dont do it too late in the day because I usually find myself quite hyper after a run.
Supplements I have to be very careful with a the moment as I am feeding my son, this also means the temazepam is out, but I will run it by the pharmacist thankyou and I will take your advice about the blood panel. I had my thyroid checked a long time ago but I am sure it wont hurt to have it checked again.
I do find my sleep patterns are erratic so you never know it may draw some light onto the situation.
Thankyou for your reply
'Martin' wrote on '18:Welcome aboard, Elfin and thanks for introducing yourself. Perhaps the very fact you have 7 children is the cause of your insomnia – life must be hectic!
Have you seen a doctor about your insomnia?
Hi all,
yes I have seen a doctor they prescribe me temazepam and then give me the usual talk about cutting out caffeine have A MILKY DRINK (I hate warm milk and it never works)taking exercise etc.
Hmmm I am a big reader so I get through quite a few books the local library have started ordering me books in 6 at a time lol.
I have read Kelley Armstrong too
I am reading Vampire Academy series at the minute
I have been reading Laurell K Hamilton too her Anita Blake series but have taken a break as there are so many of them.
I am waiting for the new book in Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series to come out too.
Thats a just a few of the books I have read, I also read Michael Macintyres book and that was funny :0)
