I have a really sore throat and the normal paracetomal tablets where just not touching the pain. So yesterday I got some Paracetomol 'Extra' they contain, paracetamol, aspirin and cafeine. I don't drink tea or coffee so apart from chocolate am not used to a lot of cafeine but I didn't think about it. They worked really well for the pain but I went up to bed at midnight and my brain was just buzzing - body dead tired and I was yawning but brain on over-drive. It was awful. I tried reading, getting up, picked up some toys, lay still, got into bed with dd, also kept drifting off for a second then waking up with a totally dry mouth so had to have a sip of drink and then a wee. AS I watched the hours go by I felt more and more desperate and could feel my heart racing. Anyway, I finally drifted off for more than a minute at about 4.15am - then at 4.45am dd2 was up and seemed to think it was morning - the only thing I could do was get into her bed and breasfeed her but she was being a bit strange and wouldn't let me take her off the breast (and I didn't have the strength to do anything about it) so she basically fed till 6.45am whilst I dozed. Then at 6.45am we were all up for the day.
The problem is that I used to suffer from pretty bad insomnia when I was pregnant and ended up being prescribed Diazepam. Part of the problem then was that if I had one bad night I would then worry about it all day and by the time I got to bed I had worked myself up into such a state that I then couldn't sleep. I'm already worrying about tonight