Why are you awake?

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Me? Had a non productive meeting for child arrangements with ex. Going round in circles and have come down with a lovely Christmas cold.

Woke at 01.30 for a wee. My eyelids are drooping now so I hope, and think, I will go back to sleep.

I do hope you get the child sharing business sorted, op, I can imagine how difficult that can be.

Up with bad insomnia / ptsd / coming to terms with how utterly shit my life has been the last few years and thinking do I have anymore fight in me to hopefully change this new year? I hope so.

not posting for sympathy at all just sharing why I am up. I'd rather not be. I never had this much wakefulness when working nightshifts!

At airport going back to UK after visiting young adult DC(22) for Christmas.

Good old insomnia, I've had it for forever.
Also I'm starting a new job in January. Good news overall but I have some stress about it...

Insomnia and just a feeling of I give up . I'm sick of being the last thing on the list and like I'm nothing more than the person who runs the house . No one wants to help , to top it off dm decided to tell tales about my youth to dc tales that are not factual. I'm furious and exhausted.

Indulging my love of being nocturnal for a few nights. I'm off to bed now, but I LOVE being up at night, silently pottering about the place

Sciatica. Gift that keeps on giving. Every time I move in bed I wake up. Have given up and am reading my book.

DC vommed everywhere. Including on my bed. My stomach is churning and I'm worried I'm next! Using phone to distract myself.

Having my mid sleep break. Ive had two sleeps as long as i can remember. Doesnt bother me now, I'll be asleep again by 5 for a couple of hours.

Not long woke up due to the wind and looking for something to watch that will hopefully send me back to sleep. Any recommendations?

No idea. I'm absolutely shattered but can't sleep. Every night now 2am wake ups and can't get back to sleep until 6am and then usually up at 7 anyway. I need to find something more productive than mumsnet no idea what though!

No idea. But I’m pissed off about it.
I’ve been stuffed full of a cold all over Christmas so had been waking up coughing most nights, coughing didn’t wake me up this time so I’m not sure what did. I’m just having a cup of tea and hoping I can go back to sleep in an hour or so.

I have no clue why I'm awake.
I've been struggling to get to sleep for the past couple of weeks and then struggle waking up in the day.
I'm absolutely sick of it.

Looks like I'm the last one standing.
Or lying down I should say.
Have had a perfectly terrible sleep waking up every couple of hours and now in 2 hours I have to get up for the day.
Thanks OP for starting this thread.
I hope you'll be feeling better soon. Sorry to hear about your unproductive day.
When you can't sleep it's really amazing to be able to connect with others who can't sleep.
To everyone who can't sleep because they're not feeling well or are in pain or their children are sick or they can't sleep for having to listen to snoring or having a very hard time, I hope everyone will feel better soon.
The nights are long when you're supposed to be sleeping and you can't sleep but it's comforting to know there are others that are awake also.
Hope everyone will get at least a couple of hours sleep.
I think I'll just get up and have a cup of tea....

had a couple of beers last night. It seems any alcohol now and I'll wake between 2 or 3 for a few hours. We are up at 6 to go on holiday with my bff and her family and last night discoverd we are on different flights there and back. FFS

It’s 2:15pm on Saturday afternoon. It’s hot and sunny. About to go to the shops.

Travelled ‘home’ for Christmas ‘holiday’ with DH and two teen DSs. Our aging parents are giving us many sleepless night’s. MIL is on end of life care so could die any day so DH is in tenterhooks, FIL has had a bad fall and we are in the stressful process of getting carers / adaptations / assessments etc set up for him. My dad has a number of ailments / conditions that are slowing him down, and my mother seems to take this as a personal affront, that he’s just being lazy and getting old just to annoy her. So she’s going out her way to prove that she’s not like these old slackers by eg cooking full Christmas dinner for 10, making it very difficult to help out (we have to pretend to casually notice that something might possibly need done and ask permission to do it 🙄 good forbid she should ask for help).

and I have a random and painful ear infection there’s throbbing away.

Effing next door neighbours are having one of their weekly 3.30am arguments in their bedroom right next to mine!!

Plus I've had this awful flu since Xmas Eve which hasn't helped my mood cos I'm not sleeping at all. Cough cough cough cough

My DH died suddenly just over two weeks ago. I can’t sleep due to grief.

Got some test results from the GP late on Friday afternoon and am lying awake thinking about what they might mean.

Nothing too serious - but at the same time, not what I wanted to hear.

@Huonneyywisshful so sorry for your loss

My answer to these threads is always the same, so I rarely reply. I was absolutely shattered by about 4pm, it was an ordeal just to get to the bathroom. Can't go to bed at 4pm because I'd then wake up at midnight. So I stayed watching Netflix and reading Mumsnet until it was 'late enough' ... by which time my brain had decided I evidently wasn't going to sleep, so went into twitchy mode. And it still is: I'm as tired as hell but not at all sleepy! Gah 😬

I was very angry about the misdiagnosis too. I saw an ENT 2 and a half weeks after onset as my husband has health insurance through his work but by that stage it was too late. I did try steroids which regained a little hearing. Tried a hearing aid but I can't make out speech. Noisy places are v difficult and I'm a primary school teacher (foundation stage). The tinnitus is the hardest part but I do get listening fatigue and embarrassed in social situations. You do adjust but I would love to get my hearing back so much. We all take so many things for granted. Thanks for the chat. I managed a couple of hours sleep but woke up and my tinnitus seemed worse. Just hoping it settles down soon.

My mum died earlier this evening in hospital after a long battle with cancer.

Dog barking every 30 seconds for no reason at all. Then when I was up I realised I was starving!