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Posted 11/4/2011 3:34 AM (GMT 0)
Fog...Insomnia...what a combo turn   My flare has been winding down, just about back to the everyday pain level...3-5 so I'm feeling pretty good pain wise. It is funny how everything is relative. My sleep issues and fog are really paying a toll on my cognitive function. I almost feel slap happy or punch drunk.  Do you notice how tense your muscles become from the lack of sleep...like they are tied up in knots. Don't know how many times today I did a series of gentle stretching. This whole insomnia thing runs in cycles, I can go a few months of sleeping relatively well to nights where I'm up and down quite a bit.

Talked to my sister on the phone and she asked if I was feeling foggy, I asked how she could tell...she just started laughing. yeah

I'm going to warm up some milk and take a flexeril tonight and hopefully this insomnia cycle will have run its course. Sweet dreams!

Hugs, Robin smilewinkgrin

Posted 11/4/2011 4:45 AM (GMT 0)
I just don't get this insomnia thing. How can you be tired but can't sleep? It's so frustrating. Thankfully I have my amitriptyline to sleep. The nights I forget to take it, I'm easily up until 3 or 4. That's just crazy when I have to be up with the kids at 6:30. Look at me now, it's 12:30, I got home from work an hour ago and had a shower, took my pill at 8:30, and I'm still wired for sound. And I was up at 6am today, chaperoned a school field trip, then went to work for 6 hours. I'm exhausted and don't make much sense, but my mind just won't shut down.

I hope you end up having a good night Robin. Sweet dreams... or should I say no dreams?

That is another lovely facet of fibro, right? Very vivid dreams, feeling awake as you dream, in control of your dream but unable to stop it, feeling like your mind is working all night when you are actually sleeping, but only lightly?
Posted 11/4/2011 3:17 PM (GMT 0)
Mamanan , hope you were able to get some quality sleep. I hear you about the vivid dreams...feeling as though you were an active participant and didn't get any sleep at all.

I know that insomnia does perpetuates itself...thinking about it can create more stress and tension...but don't know what more can be done, outside of using Sherrine's rubber hammer...lol.

Already doing relaxation therapy on a daily basis...multiple times, I walk on a regular basis....take an SNRI and use a muscle relaxer as needed...making sure I take a good multi vitamin.

Thinking that insomnia goes with the territory of flaring...and I do know this flare is coming to an end. Today, I'm going to take it easy.

My heart goes out to you Mamanan, knowing that you work and have kids at home...hope tonight is the night your insomnia ends too.

Hugs, Robin
Posted 11/4/2011 6:29 PM (GMT 0)
Where is that rubber hammer? let me have it Sherrine! lol

I was able to get some deep sleep this morning finally, so I feel better. I didn't get to bed until 2 this morning and had those vivid dreams all night. But dh was working the evening shift so he got up this morning with the kids. It was then that I got the deep sleep, and I slept until 10! Felt like I had been run over by a Mac truck when I got up, but the stiffness went away after about an hour. I am thankful that I feel more alert today, although now I am behind on everything from getting up so late.

I hope you are feeling better Robin? Hopefully your flare is done too, gentle hugs to you.
Posted 11/5/2011 12:30 PM (GMT 0)
If I didn't take Trazodone every night, I wouldn't be able to sleep well at all. It makes my fog worse, I think, but so does insomnia. So I might as well get some decent sleep, right? :(
Posted 11/5/2011 12:36 PM (GMT 0)
My 200 dose of seroquel knocked me out for years, still not refreshed in am...they added a cpap machine and knlonopin for PLMD and still terrible quality..my husband said you were asleep all night...he just doesn' GET it!!!!

Have you had a sleep study-this uncovered several problems and some say cpap mask changed their lives, so worth a try!!

Good luck
Maggie
Posted 11/5/2011 6:23 PM (GMT 0)
I'm celebrating... yeah turn yeah turn , my cycle of insomnia has finally ended.

My flare is gone too...yipeee, hooray!

Woke up this morning, and don't even remember if I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom.

We all have ridden the insomnia rollercoaster...it does feel good when the ride ends and we are able to get a good night's sleep...comparitively speaking... I will take it and enjoy it smilewinkgrin  and be thankful!

I've never had a sleep study done, I just know that my insomnia hits when I'm flaring or stressed and have high anxiety.

Hoping that there with be many nights of great sleep for all of us!

Hugs, Robin smilewinkgrin

Posted 11/5/2011 8:26 PM (GMT 0)
Happy snoozing!!!! Agood night's sleep is a real gift!

Keep it up, maybe it'll be contagious.

Maggie
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