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cant sleep

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stitch · 06/12/2008 09:03

any advice appreciated
many of you know my history. very 'loving' dh. on citalpram now. sohome life calmer. kids been sick for last two weeks, so been getting up lots to take care of them, bath them to get their temps down etc. but they better now. i was sick, but better now, still got cough. but i dont think any longer that my lack of sleep is due to kids illness.
so basically. i wake up two to three times at night. am up by four or five. and cant sleep till about midnight. yet am tired during the day. any suggestions or advice appreciated to deal with this.

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wotulookinat · 06/12/2008 13:03

I have no advice, but I just wanted to let you know that you're not alone.

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stitch · 07/12/2008 21:52

thank you for replying wot.
i still cant sleep. get very tired, but up till late, and then up with the dawn chorus, and a couple of times in between.

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wotulookinat · 08/12/2008 12:38

Do you have a sleep in the day at all? Sometimes I am so tired in the day that I can't help but have a nap, but then I have problems getting to sleep at night.
How long have you been on the citalopram for?

baffledmum · 08/12/2008 12:44

You're definitely not going to be alone on this. My solution was to go to bed at 8pm and simply read, listen to the radio or lie in the dark. My mind used to race and this was the only way of getting everything to stop. Not great for social life admittedly and it took about 4 weeks to 'recover'. I still go to bed by 10pm now though but I have accepted that this my normality at the minute.

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stitch · 08/12/2008 19:30

not an actual daytime sleep as such, but i do sometimes have a nap, as in liedown in bed. which is probly a bad idea isnt it?
i have to be up by six, to get ds up for school, so in a way, its a good idea to be up so early.
the citalopram for five weeks now, or slightly less i think. i havent been doing much excercise though, so maybe that is something in need to up?

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wotuhohohoinat · 08/12/2008 22:21

Give it time. My sleep patterns were all over the place when I started on Citalopram in January, and they did settle down again, although they are all up in the air at the moment, but that is due to drink
It's probably a good thing that you have to be up to get your DS to school. What sort of things do you do in the day to wear yourself out?

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stitch · 09/12/2008 07:39

just the usual daytime activites. i havent done much excercise recently, which is bad i know.
i went back on the citalopram, as i reaslied that if i didnt, i would end up drinking at home, alone. a recipe for disaster i know. thought better a prescription drug, than an alky.

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wotuhohohoinat · 09/12/2008 10:03

Do you still have a drink though? (I still drink a lot on the Cit, which I don't think is a good idea, but heho!)
I don't know at all what the root cause of your problems are, but has the doctor offered you any counselling? It might be worth trying.

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stitch · 09/12/2008 10:08

wot, please try to cut down on your drinking.

i generally manage not to drink. but mostly because we dont usually have anything in the house. i will drink socially. but manage to minimise oppurtunities for it. although last week i did manage to be particularly tipsy at ten am after some particularly loving words from dh.
the doctor has offered me couselling, i have unufortunately lost the letter. so need to chase that up. i will do that.
thank you so much for checking up on this thread every day.

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wotuhohohoinat · 09/12/2008 10:18

MN can be so good for support. At the start of being 'ill' earlier in the year, I posted on MN and found it a great help - it was very reassuring to know that I wasn't alone with my thoughts.
I know I need to cut down the drinking DH has a bit of a drink problem too so it's not easy. Will work on it...
Is the problem between you and your DH? Of course, you don't have to tell me anything.
Do chase up the counselling. I had a course of 6 sessions through the doc which were quite good. Then I booked myself into a course of CBT with the local Well Womans Centre, and that has been very good.
Whereabouts in the country are you?

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stitch · 09/12/2008 10:37

yes. the main problem is between dh and myself. neither one willing to leave. longstanding issues.

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wotuhohohoinat · 09/12/2008 15:35

It's hard to move on and deal with your problems if there is such a big underlying issue that cannot be solved. Have you got a little network of support, friends or family or whatever?

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stitch · 09/12/2008 17:57

yes. but i didnt think the sleep issue was only to do with that. was wondering if any other possibilities.

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