I just need to sleep…

[burntoutnurse]

Normally. Like a normal person.

I can remember the last time I went to bed at a normal time. Like 10/11pm and slept through. You know?

I have been out celebrating my friends big birthday tonight but I got home at 1am… you’d think the alcohol would have helped me sleep.

although I do have a cold.

im just so sick of not sleeping. Fucking menopause is shite

The exact same. Feel your pain. Can I borrow a newborn baby, they were the best sleeps ever!

Wide awake here too - I feel your pain 😩

And here. And I’m in Europe so an hour ahead. It’s getting light and birds are chirping and I’ve not had a wink of sleep tonight.

We’ve got so much to do today (Saturday) too…

Alcohol is terrible for disrupting sleep. Make a hot drink and get off your phone or tablet. She says...

That made me laugh.

OP I’m up too, just had to change HRT patch due to shortages I’m starting on a lower dose and my 4am on the dot wake ups have come back.

i can generally get back to sleep around 6ish so having a potter online until I can switch off, up at 9 so I hopefully can catch some zzzzzzs

So far tonight I've been woken for a blocked toilet (that I can't seem to unblock) woken by my cat objecting to be woken earlier 😑 and JUST as I was falling asleep my "heat" alarm went off in my kitchen for no fucking reason we were all in bastard bed I can't sleep in I need to contact the landlord in the morning to unblock bastard toilet (two hours of plunging shifted nothing) and I'm doing a car boot sale fortunately at the front of my house but still I NEED SLEEP

Sorry to all those suffering tonight too. I’m on night 3 of absolutely no sleep what’s so ever. I am exhausted, I have an infection in my wisdom tooth, that paracetomol isn’t touching. Started antibiotics yesterday so I’m praying I see some sort of improvement soon, I’m 25 weeks pregnant and it’s the only pan relief I’ve been advised 😭 and youngest DC was up for 2.5 hours during the night too as he’s unwell with a nasty cold.

Same here. I thought I’d cracked it by giving up booze entirely and practising perfect sleep hygiene, but it’s back. I made it worse tonight by putting the news on when I initially couldn’t sleep. Just saw upsetting things.

I think if you’re prone to insomnia, it will always flare up from time to time.

Buy yourself some benzocaine gel. It’s about £3 on Amazon. Tooth pain is the absolute pits.

Salt water rinses? I've been there it's utterly miserable at one point my dentist cleaned my tooth out and put a sedative pack in I napped in the chair because it was the first time I had been pain free for days

Oh sorry. I missed the pregnancy bit. Oil of cloves tastes foul but does help.

I can't help with the sleep (been up since 4.45am myself 😴) but rather than plunging the loo try putting a couple of dishwasher tablets in the loo, leave for 10-15 minutes then pour a couple of kettles of boiling water down.
I have had success with this method a few times!

I’m sleeping better since I started using magnesium spray. I used to wake up a lot but now go straight back to sleep.

Get some melatonin gummies. I buy 10mg ones from Biovea and they've changed everything for me.

I am a terrible sleeper too. A couple of times, I’ve genuinely gone 36hrs without sleep. Can you ask your dr for zopiclone? I’d recommend 2X 7.5mg… absolute knock out.

Not newborn, but i have a 6 month old who doesn't sleep (he is absolutely glorious though) if you're still offering! X

Drop them off in the morning, I'll take a them for a couple of nights! Ah I do appreciate what that is like also as a parent of two. This time will pass.

I'm a naturally hideous non sleeper but magnesium, melatonin and ashwagandha taken an hour before I go to bed has (honestly - I know it sounds dramatic) changed my life.

Hope everyone finds something that works for them, my sleep has been poor this week due to upset & I had honestly forgotten just how much everything aches when you're surviving on a couple of hours of broken sleep.