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To think I will go nuts without sleeping for two nights

14 replies

saltnpepa · 16/04/2015 22:38

I'm on a roll with insomnia and didn't sleep at all really last night and can feel it's going to be the same again tonight. Is it really possible to not sleep for two nights in a row?? I've got a presentation at work tomorrow afternoon too and have no idea how I will hold it together.

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glampinggaloshes · 17/04/2015 00:21

Yep. I didn't sleep for 4 nights when doing law degree exams. Took a Valium in end. Thought I would never sleep again

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/04/2015 00:23

I've done it but it's not pleasant and I wouldn't drive.

nocoolnamesleft · 17/04/2015 01:39

I've worked solidly from Friday am to Monday evening without a break (in my youth, more than once), and even in my forties have done Sat am to Mon evening. Ended up needing so much caffeine I got palpitations, so wouldn't recommend it. But didn't have much choice. Even a catnap helps enormously...

fattymcfatfat · 17/04/2015 01:44

it is doable but definitely wouldn't recommend it! this is night 4 for Me and I am shattered
have to be up in four hours to get DS ready for school then get to spend the day chasing a 15 month old that refuses to nap. oh and I'm upduffed. want to swap?

2Retts · 17/04/2015 01:52

Holy fucking crap fatty...how the hell do you do that?!?

My family and friends make me feel like a weirdo for habitually doing multiple nights without sleep but I seriously don't think I could've done it with little ones and pregnant! I'm sure I had little sleep when they were little but I managed an hour or so each day

Sleep is precious (apparently)...you seriously need to look at ways of getting more.

fattymcfatfat · 17/04/2015 02:04

I survive. needs must and all that. sometimes I mange to snooze for a couple of hours but I've been ill recently and it is keeping me awake more! I have been tempted to eat coffee though

TowerRavenSeven · 17/04/2015 02:19

It's definitely not pleasant. There is a huge difference between choosing not to sleep and not being able to sleep, not being able to is so much worse. I did three nights once (Not by choice) and ended up hallucinating and having to have my mother drive me to work. I finally ended up on anxiety meds which unwound me a allowed me to sleep.

Rinkydinkypink · 17/04/2015 02:24

I also used to do all nighters when studying.

I think ds set the seed, I remember sleeping 2 hours in a 5 day period during his labour and just after. I've never been normal since.

I often don't sleep well. 1-2hours a night for night after night. It's not good, my head begins to go off in every direction possible and I get very bad anxiety with it.

Sleep is amazing and very needed!

You can do it and the world won't stop it's just not very pleasant.

AlwaysDancing1234 · 17/04/2015 03:15

It's bloody awful, you have my sympathy. Been awake since midnight and now given us trying to get back to sleep as DC will be up at 6am anyway. That makes a total of about 6 hours sleep in the last 48 - no wonder I feel (and look) like crap!

frankie001 · 17/04/2015 03:22

It's awful. Got about 5 hrs total in past 3 night's. Not managed to sleep tonight either.

hesterton · 17/04/2015 03:42

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fattymcfatfat · 17/04/2015 03:50

I was just thinking the OP has probably been asleep for a while

MrsJuice · 17/04/2015 05:05

I am a sleep fiasco right now.
I can sleep 48 hrs in one go easily, if I can sleep.
Tonight I took diazepam, then Zopiclone 2 hours later. Then a beta blocker. Still awake.
I had a thyroidectomy 2 weeks ago. I think my meds are all screwed up, but they won't check for 2 more weeks.
Looking forward to the school run.

Silvercatowner · 17/04/2015 07:43

I wouldn't be able to. On the very rare occasions I have missed a whole nights sleep then I've just nodded off when I sat down the next day. If you are in bed it is is actually very unlikely you are completely not sleeping. More likely you are dozing/sleeping for brief periods and not realising.

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