How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[cookinggal]

Footie maybe you and I could talk through a message?

 

[Emily The Strange]

I barely slept at all last night. I just lay there staring at the ceiling waiting for my alarm to go off at 5am.

It's pretty normal for me not too sleep very well, since the incident that traumatized me I haven't had a good nights sleep and that was over 3 years ago. I used to love my sleep but now I either can't fall asleep, keep waking up, or have nightmares and wake in a panic.

As a result of this I sleep on average 3 hours a night and am in a terrible mood and have a very low attention span all day long. Work has commented on my low productivity and dark eyes in the past, but now they just leave me to it as it's been so long.

 

[Footie freak]

Cookinggal,
I'm happy to talk, but new to this so not sure how to do it through message!

 

[Tanishq]

I had good sleeping time.

 

[shoulderblades]

Does anyone have any suggestions to help me sleep

A warm honey and cinnamon drink half an hour before bed. Boil some water, put a heaped teaspoon of honey and about half a teaspoon of cinnamon in a mug, pour a splash of hot water (about a tablespoon, maybe two) into the cup to help soften and liquify the honey and bring out the flavour of the cinnamon. Then add milk and heat it up in the microwave. Alternatively, heat milk on the stove until close to boiling, then add honey and cinnamon.

Honey and cinnamon is a natural relaxant, as well as amazing for the immune system, helps with regulating weight loss, helps with liver function, kidney function and lowers cholesterol.

Also, try taking melatonin supplements at night time. Melatonin is such an important hormone and it's common for people who experience mental health issues (PTSD included) to not have sufficient amounts of melatonin release. Taking supplements often aids very well with sleep.

I hope that helps. :-)

As for how I slept last night: like a log. My Seroquel was upped from 50mg to 100mg, and I bombed out. Slept from about 10pm through to 8am, can't remember my dreams for a change. It was good, restful sleep, at last. I was hesitant to go up with the Seroquel dosage but maybe it's a good move if it means I'll sleep better and especially if it means the nightmares and bad dreams will be less severe.

 

[ms spock]

I slept okay last night.

 

[KP the nut]

I'm still managing to sleep but my bad dreams are back.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I go to bed very late in the morning but I slept good. I am enjoying good sleep every night. I wish I could sleep in though.

 

[shoulderblades]

Distressing and broken sleep. Kept waking up feeling unsafe, panicky and confused by my surroundings. Would take me several minutes to work out that I was safely in my own bedroom every time I woke up instead of... wherever it was that I kept waking up thinking I was.

Was having fragmented nightmares, too - it was the nightmares that kept waking me, though I can't really pinpoint what the nightmares were about now. God, I'm exhausted. :-(

 

[ms spock]

Shoulderblades can you get an image or a picture that you can focus on when you wake to ground you immediately that you are in your bedroom and are safe? I don't know if it would be helpful for you but I used that technique for many, many years. Now I am at a point where I don't have nightmares and after two decades I had given up hope.

I slept well last night. I went to bed late. I didn't get up for three hours part my get up time this morning. I hope to improve on that tomorrow

Yet I slept well.

 

[StarChild]

Slept very uncomfortable. Just sweating and shivering by turns, for about 4 hours. Woke up with pain allover my face. I've got this massive inflammation of my sinuses again. It became chronically for almost 20 years! So I have to start with antibiotics right now. (I always must have a package of it at home, because of my bloody heart! There's this "nice" mitral valve insufficiency.)

It's not a funny thing to have this two diseases in combination with each other; The heart isn't proper working during such a massive infection. I'm despaired and quite angry at the moment. But feel very helpless too.

Return to bed...

 

[Venusian]

What sleep? It was the pain that woke me up at 1 and now it is almost 5. The pain has abated but it is almost time to "get up" for work. The 2 nights before it was the cat that kept me up. She lost her sleeping spots when I moved and she is looking for new ones and is annoyed she can't get comfortable.

I am going to lay down and try and get a nap...I am going to try the couch this time.