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I think it is wonderful you feeling sleepy, drowsy as you say. This is how I felt when I began to recover from isomnia. In fact I ran into someone at the store that was telling me to be careful with benadryl for sleep, it can give you dementia. I said I have not taken anything since April.
My quality of sleep is so much better also. I try not to go to bed if I am not sleepy and then I tell myself to relax, that is my goal. Relaxing feels good if I sleep or not. Sleep will come back eventually. Since I quit worrying about it I have slept for 4 months very good. Before that I had 2 years of insomnia after getting on a medication that gave it to me.
I have been sleeping the last 4 months since I started here. Like chee says you have to be ok with bad sleep. A couple of times I woke up but I have found I have to reassure myself I will sleep later if not now. I say you will sleep later so as long as I can sleep later I dont worry. I use to think I would have a stroke, heart attack if I didnt get some sleep. That fear did leave me, what a miracle.
I say just lay here and relax. My goal is to relax and enjoy my comfortable bed. If I get good and relaxed I go back to sleep but either way I took my power back. It is ok if I dont sleep, dont let sleep bully you, you will sleep eventually.
Martin says my situation is I am wired tired. He is exactly right. I dont feel tired at all when I dont sleep. I feel like I could paint 3 houses. I have so much energy it is crazy. Yes I feel very nervous, I guess nervous energy. Anyway it is a terrible feeling. I have not had it for months thank goodness. Once I relaxed and quit worrying about sleeping I could sleep. I said if I dont sleep that is ok because I will sleep eventually. It amazes me how relaxed I am by just changing my attitude. Yes, our response is what makes us crazy and have all these troubles. It is like saying you are not winning, I dont care if I sleep. It is taking our power back.
Thank you Greenleaf. I have learned your brain can do weird things. Since I have changed my attitude my sleep has been so much better, not perfect but almost.
I got on here in April and now it is almost August and I have not had a night I did not sleep. Sometimes I may wake up a couple of times but I have went right back to sleep after going to the bathroom. I am amazed myself and feel very fortunate to have found Martin Reed.
I just dont have that fear any more. If I dont sleep I dont sleep. I know I will eventually. I really felt at one time I would never sleep again like a lot of others thought they had lost the ability to sleep. 2 years of insomnia was awful, miserable! Something that I had never experienced before.
From the first night I got on here and listed to those 2 week emails I felt so much peace and hope that I could do this. I got rid of any pills and that feels good. I really cant explain it myself but it worked for me. Someone at my church this morning said I did not sleep at all last night and I thought I am so happy that is not me. I told her about this but people do what they want. I remember leaving church one Sunday and going to my gym and swimming to try and calm myself down so I could sleep, those were miserable days. Medicines made me dizzy, no appetite which I thought would be great but it wasn’t. It was really easy for me to get off my benadryl, it quit working, I was not going to keep taking more, that scared me. I am just like a different person now enjoying life and if I cant sleep I will eventually!
I would love to have answers to this also. My sleep time is 12-7 but like you I get sleepy at 9 or 10 pm. I know not to lay down on the cough or I am a goner. It is good to be sleepy though isnt it? I am trying to sit up in a chair or sit up on the couch which seems to work. I also try to take a quick power nap for 30 min but sometimes I dont wake up. Yep, I tend to get up around 6 am and I wish it was 7am or 8 am. Love to hear how others sleep later in the mornings. I am definitely a night owl and happy that way if I could only sleep later in the morning.
yes I am retired so I love to sleep later in the morning. Last night I sat up in a chair rather than lay on the couch and I stayed up an hour later and that helped. I slept until 8 this morning, felt wonderful.
When I wake up I just lay there because if I go into another room like the livingroom it does not work for me. I try to just say relaxing is good, not trying to sleep just relaxing. I try to get myself out of the worry mode which has helped. I think about living life, what I want to do tomorrow and I say You will sleep later! So now I know I will sleep later, I am not going to have a heart attack or stroke or something, sleep will happen eventually. This gives me some peace.
I dont want to get up at 5am. I am a night owl. I want to be able to sleep late in the morning, 7,8 or even 9 would be wonderful. 5 oclock sounds like the middle of the night for me! I also like to watch the 11 oclock news at night. I want to wake up later not earlier!
I use to take benadryl or tylenol pm and then I needed more and more and this scared me. I just went cold turkey and gave it up. Last night I woke up a few times and was tempted to take a benadryl but I said No, I have come too far. It feels good to not take that stuff! You can do it. I was terrified of not taking some kind of pill but we really dont need it. I got bee stung a while back and I was afraid to take a benadryl but I did, it was not for sleep. Also had a tummy ache and took an ibuprofen. I dont like to take anything now that I am off pills. I am lucky I dont have to take any meds and I am 72 years old.
Chee, you really give me hope. I would love to sleep til 8 or 9 am. Yes, I am in early recovery and very happy to just sleep all night and not toss and turn and go from the couch to the bed numerous times, that was hell. I did not sleep until here lately, 2 years is a long time to have such misery, I know Brian #61 said it took him 2 years. I wish I had found this site earlier but anyway I didnt think I would ever get my sleep back right, it is a miracle. Martin Reed saying I am not alone and I will sleep was so so helpful and reassured me I could do this.
I did not want to be on prescription pills so I went off trazadone. Benadryl seem to help me more anyway. I have taking it for almost 2 years but then it just quit working for me. So I tried Tylenol PM and i noticed it made my blood pressure go up. So I thought I am just going off everything and I did and I have slept fine.
Every now and then if I dont feel good I will take an ibuprofen but this is very rare. I just dont want to take pills and I feel my quality of sleep is much better. I have only been doing this for about a month but once I quit the struggle of trying to sleep and being reassured I will sleep when I get sleepy I have had such good sleep and peace.
my sleep has been so much better for the last month. I had almost forgot about having to pee all the time. I really think it was nerves, anxiety. I was up all night tossing and turning going to the bathroom. I now know I am not alone in this and others have it also. I have been living life and assuring myself I will sleep, if not now, eventually. This has given me so much peace and calmed me down. I sleep 12 until 6 or 7 and might go to the bathroom one time now thank goodness!
I was so scared when I did not sleep for 3 nights. I am not scared now because I know I will sleep. I cant control it. I do know I will sleep. My response is what was killing me. I thought I would have a heart attack, stroke. I worried myself sick. Then Martin Reed assured me that I would sleep. I know to concern myself with living life and sleep will come later. It really will. I am much calmer now. If I cant sleep now I will be able to. This has given me much peace and my sleep is so much better.
Thank you so much for giving me my life back. I have to assure myself I can sleep every night if I just say you can do this just like the other nights I have been successful. I had never had a sleepless night until I got this insomnia. It is a terrible terrible thing.
I am waking up earlier than I want to, sometimes 5 or 6 oclock rather than 7. I am just happy to not toss and turn all night and if this is all I get that is fine. I go to be bed at 12. I wake up to go to the bathroom and this is probably the reason. All I know is my life is so much better. This does work! I tell myself I will live my life and sleep later if I cant sleep now. You have taken that terrible fear away, thank you.
