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'yoink15' wrote on '25:
Hello all,
So I've been struggling with insomnia for about three months now. I introduced myself in the other forum earlier this month.
In addition to insomnia, I suffer from something called Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (also called non-bacterial chronic prostatitis)…it's basically constant pain in and around the prostate area of the pelvis…and the need to urinate often.
I've lived with it for four years without having any sleep or anxiety issues…but about three months ago my symptoms wildly flared up and I had to take medical leave from work it got so bad.
I developed anxiety and insomnia over the whole thing.
Now as my symptoms are starting to get a little bit better (I am following a very strict physical therapy and relaxation routine)…I'm still struggling with anxiety and insomnia.
I'm taking Buspar 5mg tablets, three times a day…it's helping with the anxiety.
However, the question I wanted to ask all of you…a big part of my insomnia is a very, very strange sensation that I get in the morning that prevents me from falling back to sleep. I usually go to bed at around 11pm or midnight and I usually don't have any trouble falling asleep…but I almost always wake up about 3 hours later (because I have to urinate). Then when I try to fall back to sleep…this is when the sensation hits me.
It's hard to describe but I'll do my best. I can feel myself relaxing…and starting to drift off into sleep…and then I get this strange tingly almost electrical feeling in my hands and face…it's not pleasant feeling, and I can almost feel myself being “pulled” back out of sleep and into wakefullness. My heart rate jumps a little and I feel a little upset in my stomach. And then…boom…I'm awake. And I can't fall back asleep at all. And if I try again…I start to relax, drift off into sleep…and the whole cycle repeats! Electrical/tingly feeling in the hands, “pulling” feeling in the brain and I'm back awake. What the hell is that all about? Why is my mind/body pulling back out of sleep before I even fall into sleep?
Has anyone else ever heard of this or felt anything like this?
P.S. I don't think it's the Buspar that's doing it…because this thing was happening to me a full month before I started taking the Buspar for anxiety.
-Yoink
I know exactly what you mean. Were you on any kind of medication before this started happening, even if you stopped taking it?
I'm just asking because, this used to happen to me, but only on rare occasions if I'd been munching on the codeine for too long with a few pints of bitter. With me, the sensations were often accompanied by auditory and/or visual hallucinations beforehand, and then I'd feel the tingling and then the “pulling” back out of sleeplessness, and you feel a little jumpy and the heart is racing afterwards yeah?
'Martin' wrote on '04:I recently saw Hobo with a Shotgun and absolutely loved it! If you look horror b-movies, I'd suggest giving it a try!
😆 sounds.. interesting! I do love cheesy b-horrors though. Often at weekends I'll just chill out on the sofa to a donner kebab, a few cans of Yorkshire bitter and The Horror Channel.
The last one I watched was called Frankenhooker, and oh God do I regret watching that haha. I like cheesy horrors but, my God, not THAT cheesy! 😆
Some guy's girlfriend got eaten by a lawnmower so he stitched her back together using body parts from hookers that exploded from a super-strain of crack cocaine. That's right, they smoked it and literally exploded, arms and legs flying all over the hotel room.
'Martin' wrote on '04:Wow, now that's a big one. Does anyone truly know what they want to do with their lives? I remember hearing someone say that the reason 'grown-ups' are always asking kids what they want to be when they're older is because they're looking for ideas and inspiration themselves!
When I was a kid, my dream was to be a Concorde pilot. Originally I wanted to be a double decker bus driver! These days, I am quite happy working from home. Traveling has always been a huge passion of mine, as is connecting people and championing a cause; I guess that's what gave birth to Insomnia Land.
A great discussion idea, Tommy. Hopefully some other members will chime in, too.
You know, that could quite possibly be true regarding asking children what they want to be! I can see that being true!
When I was a younger I wanted to be a pub landlord, but that option just isn't viable in a global economic recession, ESPECIALLY in this country where landlords are over-taxed; forced to pay too much rent; where pub patrons are oppressed by an interfering state (you can't do this in pubs, you can't do that in pubs, you've done it for 600 years but ohh no you can't do it now because we say so) to the point that nobody even bothers going to pubs any more. Over 40 pubs a day are closing everyday now, so it'd just be financial suicide to buy one.
One thing I've never really done is travel. I think I've left this country twice in my entire life. Growing up and maturing a bit and shaking off my fear of what goes on beyond these little borders has made me embrace the idea of travelling more and seeing the world, that's something I'd like to do someday. Just travel to loads of different countries on different continents.
Saw the Guns of Batasi today, Richard Attenborough (sp?) and Jack Hawkins, surprised I haven't seen it before, just my kind of film! Apparently old (or young as he was then) Richard won an oscar for that film in his role as the troubled and dedicated Sergeant Major.
Quote:Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other animals, according to a study in the journal Current Biology. It's the first time primates have been seen using tools to hunt. This report from Keith Adams:Listen to the story
Chimps have been known to use tools before, to crack nuts for instance, but this use of spear-like weapons to attack other animals is completely new. Anthropologists from Iowa State University observed the apes at a site in Senegal. They say the chimps gnaw at sticks to sharpen them, then thrust them into tree hollows to hunt out small nocturnal mammals called bushbabies. One of the scientists who observed this, Jill Pruetz, says the innovative apes were predominantly females or the very young. I asked her why.
JILL PRUETZ: “When I saw the behaviour the most, that was during a time when the chimps ranged around as one cohesive group. I think it was a response by immatures and females to competition within the group. So they can't outcompete adult males in terms of resources, so I think this is just an innovative way of solving a problem in terms of food availability.”
Chimpanzees are said to be our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, sharing 98 percent of our DNA. Jill Pruetz says that her discovery could shed light on how humans began using tools, and she says it could lend support to theories that it was our female ancestors who first used weapons.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/02/070223_chimps.shtml
The question here is, have the chimps learned the use of spears as a weapon and tool of hunting through natural evolution, or, have they actually learned it by watching human poachers/hunters?
Never know, could happen for real one day! There's evidence of apes in the wild already that have learned how to use tools and weapons, such as make-shift spears!
Haha, lightening-induced insomnia, like it!
But yeah how the devil did that happen? You're lucky to have survived being only three! Wow
Welcome to IL Hobo 🙂
Now go to sleep ! 😆
You're right, lots of free time that seems to drag on sometimes, especially when there's nothing to do but be bored !
You don't really get any good films any more.
My favourite film has always been Zulu, and still is, I can watch it over and over. 😀
Watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes other week, and it was alright. Didn't live up to the hype but, it was enjoyable and a nice watch for any POTA fans.
As for horrors, I don't think they even make them anymore do they? They only make slasher films now'a'days. Rawr I'm a bad man and I'm going to slice you up. Aaahh I'm a stereotyped American cheerleading teenager and I'm going to run around screaming for half for the film as my airhead friends get stabbed and sliced and slashed and smashed and then the guy who I initially hate but fancies me is going to save me and then I'm going to fall inlove with them and then oh noez he gets his head chopped off and I scream some more but pluck up some courage out of nowhere to fight back and yay The End.
Same old boring tosh I've seen a million times.
There hasn't been a good horror since the original Exorcist IMO.
'Martin' wrote on '22:Why should Britain dominate the world compared to any other country? How about we all come together and share, like happy, playful toddlers?
Where's the fun in that !! 😛
Don't worry, when I'm Emperor I'll let you have a mansion, and give you France.
'Martin' wrote on '22:Are they the microwave burgers?
Yep ^ 0 to tasty in 60 seconds.
Heart attack food, but thing is, they really ARE tasty. I love them.
I actually have the application forms and what-not here, to form my own. When i left unnamed Party, I still had a lot of supporters from the youth wing of the group of which I had a short stint of leadership in, and they were all saying “Start your own party, we'll come join you!” etc etc.
So I got the forms, and giving it serious consideration. It'll only be local, though, not general. Freedom For Yorkshire Party, campaign for a Yorkshire assembly and demand more local autonomy and a return of local Democracy rather than centralised state control which means poverty strikes here because of the south's one-size-fits-all unreasonable high taxation on the north to supplement their own region(s).
And I want to campaign for more animal rights, too, and protection of the countryside.
So I'll either join Labour, or, start my own regional party.
I don't use any social networking sites atm. Couldn't really get on with Twitter, and Facebook bores me, plus there's a lot of privacy issues with Facebook, it seems a bit dodgy when a site hoards your information and refuses to delete it. If you de-activate your account, all your information is still there, stored, and although I've requested they delete it, they haven't.
I am, however, currently working on a social networking site myself, that will be a cross between a social networking site, an article/story site and a traditional chat community. No ETA at the moment though as the mistake I made in the past was putting myself under too much pressure and rushing the project. Taking my time this time, and if it takes 3 months then so be it. Better releasing it a few months down line finished rather than in a few weeks unfinished.
'Martin' wrote on '09:A simple question that anyone can contribute to.
I'd say something that can limit and ration oxygen. Imagine having to pay for the right to breathe air. Let's hope nothing like that is ever invented.
Over to you…
A new source of fuel that is infinite in supply and more effecient than oil.
Because that'd mean my hopes & dreams for our nation's revival is crushed.
By 2050 Britain will be, just about, the only nation left with oil as the world runs out, but we have lots of it under ice in the south Falklands & the British Antarctic. Which means we can either keep it for ourselves and use it to dominate the world since we'll be the only ones with working planes, tanks and ships, or, sell it at a ridiculous price and dominate the world financially.
So, nobody go replacing oil please. 😀
