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[samweller161]

Am not saying is a miracle cure but the "chillow" arrived Monday and it's actually pretty good.  I did make the mistake of putting it just inside my pillow case face up so that my head was resting on it and it felt weird/hard.  So I just put it inside pillow case but under my actual pillow and a bit of coolness does tend to come through.  Put in this way, no night sweats since Monday apart from a very tiny, practically insignificant one last night. 

Early days I know but just feedback if anybody else is thinking about buying one 

SP x

[MissMaster]

Hi Susan,

Welcome!
I'm sorry I can't give you many info today, feeling very low... just want to reassure you that faith in doctors is so rare these days... you should keep looking for new ones until you find a decent and knowledgeable one.
Hope things settle soon!
xxx

I am so agree with you!!! I think it's almoust impossible to find a good doctor now. most of them don't know anything and try to get rid of patients.
I'm a new member here and hope to find something to fight my sleeplessness. I've accidentally received a discount (http://nutritionsguru.com/) for Iherb production, maybe you know it, so now i am thinking, maybe i should buy some kind of vitamins or supplements... I've never use them before, but I just don't know what to do. Very tired 

[VanessaM]

I had a spell of really disturbed night recently.  I took 2 nytol (the blue pack), read a good book for about 10 mins and then slept soundly till the next morning!  I did this for a couple of nights to break the spell.

Now I don't take any at bedtime, (not wanting to get into a habit) but if I wake up in the small hours I just take one and back to the land of nod.

These really work for me!

[Evelyn63]

I have had a run of bad nights, have a few family concerns so know in part this is contributing , but doesnt help the utter hopelessness that comes with lack of sleep.  I am in the fortunate position of being retired and apart from one day a week doing childcare, which involves a serious early start and late ending ! I have no other pressures about having to get up to do a days work.  Co incidentally the night of the childcare I sleep like one of my charges  but not the night before !

This past two nights I have taken half a Nytol, the one a night one's, and read and listen to radio 4.  I find talking lulls me over much better than music.  I set the timer to switch off my phone after 40 minutes and have had two reasonable nights so far.  Last night wasnt so good but I attribute that to a very tense book at bedtime which I kept fast forwarding unto the next chapter !  Definitely a bad choice to induce sleep !

[CLKD]

Michael Mosely on the 1 Show now about sleep and how to trigger it - 2 kiwi fruits ........ 

[dolphin63]

I have a book at the side of my bed, and if I find I can't sleep I'll resort to reading until I'm ready to nod off.  I found it helped switching to decaf tea and coffee too.

[Suzi Q]

Ive suffered 2 or 3 days a week for as long as i can remember from insomnia.
It was hreat nursing on nights lol x

[marma2010]

Back to the Michael Mosley programme on sleep I have recently been trialling a prebiotic prior to bed.  So far so good.  Dont know why it works but it does seem to.
I also have chillow (brilliant!) and just invested in a 2 tog duvet.  Also magnesium supplement and 5htp.  To be honest I'm just throwing everything at the problem!!
I do think that getting hrt to the right level helps enormously,
What doesn't help is kids having night terrors at 2am, or coming in saying they can't sleep, or dogs barking, or relatives ringing because they are going through a tough time at 3am etc etc....

[sn00py]

I am not coping well at all. For 3 1/2 years i have been battling poor sleep and now the insomnia has become chronic. It has become worse the past 5 weeks. I am not on HRT. I take some AD and often resort to Benzos. i know they are addictive. I constantly brood about sleep and don't know how to switch off. Thinking of going to a sleep specialist. Started counseling. I hardly sleep 3 hours per night. I don't know how people live with insomnia for years and years. It keeps me in a constant anxious state during the day. SO i can't sleep during the day either. And my heart keeps pounding in the night. The only recent change recently is, i have stopped periods the last 4 months. I have no hot flashes either. Just light sweats, especially when it is hot around me. I think my sleep problem is now more in my mind than physical. The counselor has suggested CBT. Let's see how that works.

[CLKD]

.......... SnOOpy : and breathhhhhhh - for years I was in a high-powered job and every night woke several times worrying that I had missed doing something ....... eventually I woke in the early hours and thought "Oh well, being awake hasn't killed me yet", went back to sleep and never had problems again.  I also kept a note-book by the bed to put down reminders for the next day which cleared my brain ;-).  I have occasionally nights when I don't sleep: either simply not dropping off or waking after a couple of hours - I do deep breathing, listen to my DH snoring  , get up and make a cuppa which I may get round to drinking ....... what sleeping pill are you using?  Are you worrying about the addiction side rather than the benefit of taking say, 1 for 3 consecutive nights so that you get sleep and accepting that maybe for nights 4/5/6 you won't sleep as well?

[Jland]

I take a prebiotic in powder form called Inulin. I put it on my cereal in the morning. Sleep has much improved. I have forgotten to take it some weekends & I really feel the difference. I saw it on the TV programme about insomnia. It's made from chicory.

[sn00py]

"Are you worrying about the addiction side rather than the benefit of taking say, 1 for 3 consecutive nights so that you get sleep and accepting that maybe for nights 4/5/6 you won't sleep as well?"
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Yes, that's what i'm worried about. i have started to take 0.5 to 1 mg Lorazepam along with my AD. Just the AD is not working. My therapist and my husband suggest that i take it for some time to break the sleeplessness cycle and then start reducing it. My doctor says, no don't take it everyday, it will lead to addiction. But i am now taking it as i have no choice. That's the only one that can reduce my heart racing and help me sleep.

[sn00py]

Thank you for the tip Jland. I will look for it here in Germany. I remember seeing it in drugstores.

[Roseneath]

I developed dreadful Anxiety fuelled Insommnia out of the blue about 6 weeks after an upsetting family breakdown; didin't  sleep for 5 nights in a row and ended up at A & E in a state (where given valium -only took once).  Worried about sleeping all day. On GP advice took Nitrazepam (old fashioned knock you out sleeping pill) as Z drugs didn't work. Once I had a few days good sleep again I gradually reduced dose over 2 weeks until I was on  0.5 tab. Went on holiday and from Day 1 slept like a baby...just proves being away from stress works wonders.
Now just take 4mg (1 tab) proprananol for anxiety before bed and (touch wood) am back to normal again. Also discovered Mindfullness Apps which are fantastic (Headspace & Calm). I don't do them at night but it the morning. They gIve you strategies to stop the worries going round & round you head.   My heart goes out to you all who are in the middle of Insommnia. I would say go and see your GP earlier but it can improve. I have decided to come off HRT today so hoping it won't return!!

[Roseneath]

P.S When I got back from holiday I also made our bedroom calmer as the room at the hotel was lovely ....paint job (taupe), new lamps, black out blinds...changed the orientation of the bed....didn't cost a fortune but felt like a new more relaxing space...should hv done it years ago.