Anyone awake?

I put a mindfulness app on or a mindfulness one on YouTube. That helps me a lot.

I'm having a bad bout of insomnia having just moved into a new house on Friday which is full of issues and my mind will not stop!
Alarm is going off at 6 😖 all the usual remedies not working, just had a small bowl of cereal which has worked in the past.
I use promethazine to help me stay asleep but by the time I remembered it tonight it was too late and didn't want to feel too groggy. Hope everyone manages some sleep.

I can highly recommend magnesium glycinate for restless leg syndrome!

I'm here too! Mind racing about work, kids, Christmas. Feel a weird mix of over-stimulated yet isolated as I work from home, DH doesn't want to talk and kids constantly need stuff. I find being up in the middle is the only time I get peace and quiet and can do bits for myself without others joining in / wanting the same / interrupting or needing something.

I listen to podcasts - Boring Books for Bedtime is really soporific. My son also learned from a friend that if you need something for your eyes, to try and blink 250 times in a rhythmic manner (he does it along with the ticking on his clock). He has never made it past 50 apparently (disclaimer - I'm up as revenge procrastination because I've got more jobs than time, not because I can't sleep, if that counts for anything! 😁)

I keep waking up too in the middle of the night but every alternate day. I’m now actually out of bed, brushed my teeth and had tea with two buttery toasts. I will watch TV for two hours and then will go back to bed and few hours sleep. But will sleep like a baby tomorrow. This sleep pattern is so weird. If I just lay in bed and my mind wouldn’t stop thinking at all. I’m planning to do some exercise a day and this is practically missing from my day to day life.

I think GPs can prescribe some sort of antihistamine that makes your drowsy @FFSgetagripoldlady Does your school have any support packages like online GP appointments? Ours does, through VivUp.

No wonder you can’t sleep with the HR thing on your mind, that sounds stressful.

It is lunchtime here in Sydney so I am supposed to be awake. I never sleep more than a few hours at a time though since cancer so I sympathise. Panadol osteo works for my restless legs.

Me! DH snoring away downstairs and the cat soundly asleep next to me, but neither want to share their secret!
Struggling with reflux (sore throat) since I’ve stupidly had tomato sauce for the first time this year on Saturday and Omeprazole hasn’t kicked in yet / it needs time for the throat to get sorted again. Also my brain being in overdrive.
Think I’ll go back to my book in a moment.
At least I don’t need to get up early as WFH, but office later this week where I need to leave at 6.15am and won’t be back until gone 8pm.
Hope you all get some sleep eventually!

Hot water bottle?
Try and remember all the things you worried about in the past that never came to pass?
Things generally work out.

I've been taking Magnesium for about 3 weeks now.I was going to ask if anyone on here found that they were helping,but realised that those people would be asleep😂

Lifting weights is pretty much the only thing that consistently knocks me out. I've had a week off as work's been really busy and been doing a fair few 13 hr days, and I've actually been sleeping worse despite getting in earlier.

Yep,and that's another problem I forgot to mention!

@FFSgetagripoldlady I am wide awake. I’m getting on average 2 hours sleep a night. I look wretched. Just ordered some magnesium and I’m going to try taking that to see if it helps. Nothing else seems to.
People who work in schools are amazing and never get enough thanks for their hard work.

I'm here.
I remember those nights OP and I truly sympathise with you.I don't know what the answer is.

For me, it got worse the nearer I got to retirement ; on average I was completely awake all night for an average of 3 or so nights a fortnight; the rest of the time I wouldn't drop off until about 2-3 am. The mornings in teaching primary were a hell of a lot longer and more paced than the afternoons and l kept going on adrenaline until lunchtime when the lack of sleep from the previous night kicked in.Tired,restless legs never helped and I just spent the nights lying in bed stewing over things,probably because I hadn't had much chance to have a decent think about anything during the course of the day.

Now it's like this nearly every night.I was just discussing this again with DH before coming to bed.I try to get as much fresh air as possible, try reading and have had limited success with audio books and soothing music.At least now I can catch up on my sleep later in the day,but that in itself creates a vicious circle. Before I came back on here and saw this thread,I had the light off but was lying there thinking about the Christmas grocery order!Wish I could learn to switch off !

Is your bed warm OP? I can’t sleep unless I’m toasty.

@FFSgetagripoldlady Do you have a warm dressing gown?

In that case how about a tablet game like solitaire, FreeCell or that Bejewelled one? I often tap away on one of those whilst listening to something else, it unscrambles my very scrambled head.

I am but only because I laid in this morning as I've been poorly (bug)
To get to sleep I play a game in my head. I find a topic...say foodstuff....and think of as many beginning with A until I run out. Then B and so on. Anything can be a topic. Places,actors, bands etc. Monotonous and works. Also listening to rainsounds. It's all about distraction.

I've done that lots of times and then suddenly discovered my mind has gone off on a wild gallop down some new avenue, all on its own. Perhaps I've got another, secret, brain I don't know about.

I'm normally asleep but can't settle, as I need a wee, then after I've been, I'm cold again and take ages to warm back up 😔

I'm awake. I've injured my knee and can't get comfortable. No more pain killers due for ages either. If it wasn't so awkward and painful I would go downstairs and get a cup of tea.

I've been told if you can't sleep you should get out of bed for a while and go to a different room. Stop trying to force sleep. When you go back to bed it's a fresh start. That's maybe not practical though when you have work in the morning. 🤔