Insomnia Support Group

Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...

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Riddles 09/05/2007

There seems to be a fair few of us on here, it makes me wonder if sleep isn't just pointless. I only ever go to bed because of boredom. I'm not tired. I never am, what in the world is going off. Surely there must be a reason why we seem to struggle to sleep. I mean, I know they say people with dyspraxia normally struggle to sleep/ or are indeed insomniacs, due to an inability to switch off but this is becoming a living nightmare, I don't feel the need to sleep, it seems like a pointless activity. The only other thing that seems to be a good point is it saves electricity. I'm sitting typing this here post at 3am here in the UK. I like this time of morning, its quiet and the stars are out, and thats nice, but its so warm out there these days, things just seem different of late.

Does anybody know the cause/causes of insomnia, and ways to help it, without resorting to unnatural methods, such as tablets, is there not an effective natural solution at all? Or is it just a case of go see your doctor and see what he says. I hate being up at this time of night also, I get so ratty, not because of tiredness but because of boredom and anger at not being able to sleep and others being able to sleep, I think for the first time in my life I am jealous of every other normal person on this planet lol. A first for me. Now I'm waffling lol. Sorry folks, its been a long day, a long fortnight, just a bloody long time, too long, and no end in sight, so, who knows eh?

talk soon folks

Riddles

deleted_user 09/05/2007

im never tired either, and really i think the night life is pretty nice sometimes. but even though i wish there werent bad side effects to not sleeping, there are, so it does have a point, i figure you already knew that though eh? i know that if you go without sleeping for five days you go clinically insane, and after 10 days of not sleeping you die. but that rarely happens since your body would shut itself down. i stay up until i pass out most of the time. to actually answer your question about the cause of insomnia, there are quite alot of them. i have limited time on here tonight, so i cant get into that too much myself, but a good site to go to is www.webmd.com if you want to know the specifics. for ways to help it, there is actually a natural drug, guess its not really called a drug then, more of a supplement or whatever, that is used for lessening anxiety (or nervous tension) and a sleep aid. its called Hyland's Calms Forte. i have some but i havent tried it yet. it does work for some people i know though, so thats an option. its all natural, no side effects the next day or anything. some prescription sleeping pills work well for some people. in my case the last one i tried didnt help me sleep but made me hallucinate some pretty weird things... there are alot of good ways to help insomnia too though without any drugs, it depends on the person, ill reply again later with some other ideas. well if you still cant sleep now and your reading this atleast i gave you something to do eh? lol. good luck with everything.

Riddles 09/05/2007

Thank you for that I'll have a look

Riddles

deleted_user 09/06/2007

There are lots of reasons for insomnia. I am like many of you I have had insomnia for years and have tried every medication known to modern medicine. There were times I felt like the only person on earth. I just really wanted someone to be awake when I was so I didn't have to feel so alone. I have been taking a supplement lately called Soportonin, I got it from the internet. It has been wonderful. To begin with I had to take 4 capsules a night and it took a couple weeks of regular use before it started helping. Suddenly I noticed I had slept several hours uninterupted and was feeling much better during the day. Gradually I started sleeping 6-8hrs and I decreased the number of caps to 3. A few weeks later I was able to decrease to 2 caps and now I only take 1 or 2 caps nightly. I am sleeping great. I might occ (on days of severe stress) not sleep straight through. Even these nights though I don't lie awake for hours. Usually just a few min and then I drift off to sleep again.
I hope you are able to rest soon. I know how unsettling it can be.
mysugah

deleted_user 09/07/2007

I suffer from insominia as well and I get so frustrated at times. I, too, wish I oculd just wake everyone up becasue I get so jealous that in a matter of five minutes they are in slumberville. There are times I think maybe I should just quit trying to go to sleep and just stay up and take care of the housework, list on ebay and just go on my regular day/night but then I know if I do that, I will have an appointment to go to and be to groggy to stay awake and drive.

I tend to get a little facetious with my dh when he says 'you'll finally get to sleep' and I always come back, 'yeah, when I am 6 feet under...then I'll be finally catching up.' He gets annoyed.

deleted_user 09/08/2007

I suffer from insomnia that is complicated by sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome. You need to get a baseline sleep study. My doctor's were shocked- give that I'm young (35), a non smoker/nondrinker, am below my bmi for my height (5'7", 115#)= I didn't fit the "stereotype" for sleep apnea. I'd been complaining for years. My sleep study was off the charts- never hit REM sleep, 489 "perioic limb movements" during the 3 hours that I did "sleep". But without hitting REM sleep, sleeping is pointless. REM sleep is a must- it's the only portion of sleep that is rejuvanitive. So I wake up utterly exhausted. My doctors (I see a pulmonologist/sleep specialist, and a neurologist, they have NO IDEA what to do with me. CPAP AND BIPAP didn't work for me. I'm hoping for some new mediation that will help. This is torture.

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