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Can't sleep at night

Whatever I try I always end up getting into the routine of sleeping during the day and being up all night, 2 days ago I got up early after 2 hours sleep so expected to be really tired so Id sleep the following night. I made it through the day but as soon as 10 pm hit I wasn't tired anymore :confused: anyway I fell asleep at 12 - 3.00 am then couldn't get back to sleep until 7 am so Ive slept all day again :frown: What can I do?
Reply 1
alio~
Whatever I try I always end up getting into the routine of sleeping during the day and being up all night, 2 days ago I got up early after 2 hours sleep so expected to be really tired so Id sleep the following night. I made it through the day but as soon as 10 pm hit I wasn't tired anymore :confused: anyway I fell asleep at 12 - 3.00 am then couldn't get back to sleep until 7 am so Ive slept all day again :frown: What can I do?


Ive been in a similar situation and the best thing is to get ur body back into a rountie. go to bed at a reasonable time regardless of whether you're tired or not and get up get up at a reasonable time, ie before midday!! keep doing this each day and you should get yourself into a nice routine. i also fid a nice warm shower and a hot milky drink before bed relaxes the body ready for sleep and a big cup of coffee in the morning and a cold shower to wake up!!
Reply 2
louise28k
Ive been in a similar situation and the best thing is to get ur body back into a rountie. go to bed at a reasonable time regardless of whether you're tired or not and get up get up at a reasonable time, ie before midday!! keep doing this each day and you should get yourself into a nice routine. i also fid a nice warm shower and a hot milky drink before bed relaxes the body ready for sleep and a big cup of coffee in the morning and a cold shower to wake up!!


Good idea :smile: I tried hot chocolate twice last night during each wake up it worked the first :p: Just when I wake up I usually can't get back to sleep until 7 or 9am the following morning :eek: Like you said though its to do with routine.
Reply 3
louise28k
Ive been in a similar situation and the best thing is to get ur body back into a rountie. go to bed at a reasonable time regardless of whether you're tired or not and get up get up at a reasonable time, ie before midday!! keep doing this each day and you should get yourself into a nice routine. i also fid a nice warm shower and a hot milky drink before bed relaxes the body ready for sleep and a big cup of coffee in the morning and a cold shower to wake up!!

Agreed, Louise explains it perfectly
Ahhh insomnia --- anyone going to watch Peter's Friends on channel four in 40 mins? It has many great actors in, brit flick...worth a watch if you can't sleep.
Oh well i shall be anyway
Toodle-Pip
Ahhhhhh I'm just about to go to bed, very tired and have just realised that I stripped the bed earlier and forgot to re-make it! There is nothing worse...
I was just the same when I was working evenings. Get home from work,watch some tv, eat, have a look on the net and at my emails, before you know it, it's 7am, bedtime, then sleep til about 2pm. then it got really bad when I was going to bed at 6/7am, then being wide awake again at 8 or 9am ish. I was having about 2 hours sleep a night and whatever I tried, couldn't sleep. I started a full time job starting at 7am every morning, working 7-4, going from working p/t to f/t really took it out of me, and the early mornings made me tired at night, so sleeping patterns went back to normal. Recently, however, I've gone back to only having a few hours a night sleep. I can goto bed at 9, but can't sleep, just lie there for hours. Whatever I try, music, tv, long baths, milky drinks, breathing exercises, lying in the pitch black deadly quiet-nothing gets me off, and then it's up again at 5.45 to get ready for work. I'm like a human vegetable, I'm so tired but I can't sleep.
Ween yourself into a normal sleep pattern. It'd be too hard to change your sleeping pattern over a 24hr period, but try and do it gradually over the space of a few days.
Set alarms so that you have to get up to turn them off, go out in the day so that you can't nap or go to bed. open the curtians when your alarm goes off so that it makes you think its waking up time.

anyhow, good luck with it. its horrible trying to correct a knackered sleeping pattern.
Reply 8
I know the feeling. The best thing to do is to get into bed with an uber boring textbook, and read it- that should know you straight to sleep. Otherwise try going to bed earlier. I know you won't be able to sleep that early, but it helps. Also getting up early for a few days (which means only a few hours sleep) can help you return to routine.

Good Luck! :smile:
Reply 9
I prescribe Nytol. NEXT!
Best night's sleep I've had recently, is when I stayed up late as usual, slept for around 2 -3 hours before kicking myself out of bed and doing a full and tiring day's shopping. When I went to bed I was understandably knackered, and I slept through until midday. Unfortunately I'm currently back to my usual habit.