Aarrrggghhh insomnia back again

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Ffs anyone else still awake at this ungodly hour again??

I literally haven't closed my eyes yet.

Have took myself downstairs with tablet and a blanket so I don't disturb dh but I am getting soooo pissed off with this

I was up at 7.30 am this morning and have had a busy day with home learning having to do an emergency vets dash,a food shop etc and all the usual household stuff and yet I still can not nod off for love or money.

I've tried warm milk and a hot bath to relax me,I'm on the go all day keeping active etc etc.
I guess my subconscious is worrying about things more than I thought

Yup, same here. Even took a nytol about 9pm and my brain has totally overridden it

Same here, written about 5 pages in my worry journal though... apparently if you write it all in that it enables you to fall asleep hahaha

I've been awake since half three. I'm tense with worry about the virus, money, that I should be doing better at home schooling, housework etc.
I don't know whether to get up and nap later or to try and sleep.

Same here. Been awake since 3-ish. I get to sleep fine every night at around 11-ish, then I wake during the early hours most days
Like PPs, I also keep active in the day with my kids, as well as with chores, etc.
I'm going to suffer a bad headache tomorrow, sigh
So frustrating.

Me too. I've always had awful insomnia! Now and again I take one of those sleep aid tablets from superdrug which do the trick if you only use them the odd time, however I'm currently pregnant so can't take them. It's awful watching the hours tick by...

Mine is back I think partly because wfh and only going out for a short walk as my exercise is not physically tiring me at all, plus my brain is so much more alert due to anxiety about me and my family if we get Coronavirus.
I have strong painkillers for a back issue but they are addictive and take at least an hour to make me drowsy, give me weird sleep patterns, plus I am then not great in terms of alertness the following day.

Well the night after I posted this thread I slept like a log,and every night since then haven't

The result is that I'm shattered today and have struggled to get my mojo going.
Done a 1.5 mile dog walk ,shoved some washing in,stacked and emptied a dishwasher and did a small shop,oh and done home learning with youngest dc I feel knackered so hope I sleep tonight.

If I don't I'm going to have a rummage for some sleep aids somewhere

And who the frig swapped the bookmark and report buttons over

Nytol doesn’t work for me any more. As a general rule, it takes me until 2.30am at the earliest, to get to sleep - last night it was gone 4.30am before I dropped off.

Then, come the morning, I can’t wake up. I only wake up because dh brings me coffee. My sleep pattern is completely screwed.

I have seriously considered staying up all one night and all the next day, to see if that would force me back into a more sensible pattern.

I did do the staying up thing last week. I didn't even close my eyes all night. I eventually got up went downstairs and got comfy on the sofa in the hope I'd nod off but I watched the bloody sun come up

Got in the shower and had a coffee and carried on the full day including a long long dog walk and being on my feet all day.
I was so shattered at 8pm I went to bed and was asleep almost instantly.

Woke up at 2.30am and that was that

I know it's the change In routine and financial worries and jobs etc same as everyone else I guess it's just very frustrating.

Hi - I've posted elsewhere and don't know whether you have seen those threads but is there a possibility that you are progesterone intolerant?

The unpredictable nature of your insomnia could be linked to your menstrual cycle. Also, have you recently changed your contraception to a progesterone only-based pill or the Mirena coil? This can affect your sleep and mood.

I take 100ug Levythroxine a day for an under-active thyroid and, despite that, spent 7 years in the medical wilderness trying to find a cause for my insomnia, brain fog and lack of energy. A variety of GPs meddled with the dosage from time to time but still the insomnia remained. I have just discovered that progesterone intolerance is "a thing". About 20% of women are affected to some degree with about 5% really seriously.

It's only now that I can trace the gradual shift towards insomnia, brain fog, low mood eg - not dancing around the kitchen or singing to my favourite songs on the radio any more, lack of interest in sex, anything, in fact, to switching to a progesterone-based contraceptive pill about 6 months prior to the insomnia started. I had assumed that the symptoms were all due to getting older, possibly being peri-menopausal and having three small children.

I have also just spent 10 days with a Mirena coil during which my insomnia ratcheted up to a whole new level (absolutely unbearable and felt like I was losing my mind). It disappeared completely within 4 days of the wretched thing being taken out.

See articles below. Some relate to teenage girls but the symptoms of hormone imbalance may ring some bells.

www.studd.co.uk/dep_women.php (see paragraph at the end of the page).

coyleinstitute.com/understanding-teenage%20hormone%20imbalance/

www.mdedge.com/pediatrics/article/206541/mental-health/consider-hormones-and-mood-adolescent-girls

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/family_planning/3936528-Insomnia-Progesterone-Intolerance-Contraception-and-HRT

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/family_planning/2758092-Mirena-Depression-Five-Fucking-years-of-my-life-AIBU-to-have-the-rage?pg=9

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3800201-AIBU-to-be-really-fucked-with-inability-to-sleep-at-night?pg=12