Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: littleminnie on July 02, 2018, 07:27:58 AM
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How are you sleeping in the heat. I get so hot at night I almost wish it was winter. I sleep with the fan on, the curtains are closed all day to keep it cooler. I'm on top of the bed and sleep in next to nothing and I'm still too hot.
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It's very difficult isn't it? I think it's the same for most people though. We were sat out in the garden till 1 this morning as the house was so hot and outside was perfect. I find that fans and air conditioning units keep me awake with the noise!
Taz :meltdown: :meltdown:
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I bought a cooling gel pillow last year because the back of my head would get really warm in bed and found it good. This last few weeks I don't think I would have slept much without it, I've been putting it in the fridge before putting in in my bed, it's been bliss on my legs and feet :)
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We sat out last night until 10.45 then had a bath - it was warm as there was no air through the property but I slept. Well. If it is too hot upstairs I sleep in the lounge.
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Crushed ice in a hot water bottle is one suggestion I've read to keep cool.
Might try it.
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I keep the curtains closed in the bedroom too,
The sun is on the back garden all afternoon, and our bedroom
is at the back, it's like an oven at bedtime,
My fan is on full blast, OH, is downstairs with the dog, so the plus is
I've got the bed to sprawl out on all by myself....lol
OH said it does get lovely and cold about 3/4am, and he loves it.
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When I was in UK, I used to sleep on the floor downstairs if it was really hot!
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I purchased some koolpaks for my knee's and lower back pain, use these to cool my part of bed and pillow.. :)
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It's just after 3am and I'm up, unable to sleep in our room. We have a wasps' nest on the outside of our flat, just above our bedroom window. We have been trying for nearly a week to get someone to come and get rid of it but it's posing a problem because it's high up. (Double flat, with another double flat below us). For several nights now, we've not been able to open the window in our room and it's just getting so stuffy. It's been slightly affecting my breathing, which is a bit scary. We've managed to get Rentokil to come at lunchtime today - just for an initial look, but hopefully they'll get rid of the thing ASAP after that - and I just can't wait. Meanwhile, I dream of fresh air, rain.....aah, bliss! :)
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I just wake up more tired than I was when I went to sleep in the first place. I can't remember the last time I closed my bedroom curtains, my windows are wide open too. I've been awake since 4am and I must say it's really quite pleasant as its not heated up yet.
May buy a cool pillow today.
xXx
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I just wish we COULD open our bedroom windows! I absolutely long to be able to do that at the moment. Heatwave and no fresh air to breathe at night because of this **** wasps' nest...........awful combination! :o
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Have a look-see on your local facebook page and see if anyone is advertising. I don't suggest killing critters except in circumstances similar to yours. Ask your local bee group as wasps are known for invading nests!
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Well, that's pest control been and gone, and the little waspies have been dealt with. The person who went up in the "crane" to do the job said it was the highest one he'd ever had to do (our bedroom's on 4th floor). Anyway, the poor little darlings (i.e. the wasps, not pest control!) are now dancing around like there's no tomorrow - and hopefully, for them, there's not >:( We're probably going to de-camp to the spare room tonight, just until the fumes and stingy thingies have completely gone. Oh, the joys of summer.......! ::)
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Sad though :'(. They aren't easy to move like bees can be though. Did you get the chance to see the nest?
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I love animals, CLKD, but I'm afraid I don't see this as sad - not when we've had to keep our bedroom window shut for a week, in a heatwave, for fear of getting stung! No, we couldn't see the nest because it was/is in an inaccessible place at the side of our dormer window, four floors off the ground.
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We had a wasp nest about 2years ago, above our patio window,
and by our bedroom window, (we're out back)
And we had some kind of insurance that covered this.
The insurance people sent someone, and within 2days completely gone...
We couldn't risk having our bedroom window open either, luckily,
it only lasted about 4days in total.....
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Not much fun, is it? ::)
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Hope they have all gone now dulciana and you finally manage to get a good nights sleep 🛌
Lanzalover x
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They seem to have, Lanzalover. Last night we still kept the window shut, just in case there were any stragglers still buzzing about, as it had only just been done; but today we've had the window open since midday and we're looking forward to our first ventilated night's sleep for a week. I never knew before how exciting fresh air could be! ::)
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Yeahhhhhh
Good work Dulciana,
Enjoy the fresh air.....lol
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I have been sleeping fairly well under 4.5 tog quilt and in my birthday suit! I have told my teens not to barge in my room without knocking first if someone is ill in the night...I don't want to scar them for life🙈
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:rofl:
That's a big un........lol
Come to think of it ,,,,me neither...lol
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:lol: :whist: ......... the larges spider we had in a very old house filled a pint beer glass :o even the it was put over the critter the feet stuck out under the edge of the glass and as fast as I tried to push it over the windowsill, the faster it crawled back in .........
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How you managed to go any where near it is beyond me CLKD.
I would have just watched it, until someone came and got rid off it.
They absolutely scare the hell out of me,
When my OH catches them, he messes about with them, pretending to throw them at me,
or even just walking towards me with them, I've told him he'll give me a heart attack
if it touches me......that's how my phobia is....
I tell him NOT to kill em, just to put them outside, which he does now, he used to kill em.
Killing them is on my conscience, which is just as bad as my phobia....so now he puts
them outside......
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I try not to kill anything except rats and blue bottles. Having had a 2nd chance, twice ;-).
That 'someone' would have been who exactly ;D. DH held the pint glass over the critter and I had a thick piece of card underneath it. Up went the sash window and he tipped the glass outside, I used the thick card to push it back into the night until DH had pulled down the sash ........ when it ran over The Telegraph which was laying on the floor it sounded like a mouse :rofl: it was only when he leaned over the bed and went 'F***' that I realised it was likely to be BIG :o :D
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I love that sound their feet make (do spiders have feet?) running over paper or that scratchy sound they make on the wallpaper but, then again, I am strange apparently... :D ;D
Taz x