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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.
