Insomnia

[budharley 945]

Any of you lads suffer? I get it in batches , I can have it for w few weeks then I'll seem to be ok then it will happen again. I've gt a newborn here he will be up in a min for a bottle and I'm on a course tomorrow at work so looks like I'm going to be tired again ?

[dodger 2,754]

Same as you it comes and goes working on the doors probably didn't help and all the years lampin probably played a big part aswell, weird tho like you say can be right for weeks n sleep like a baby apart from always wakin up at some point for a piss, then other times proper night hawk for weeks on end until mornin no matter what I do just summet I gota put up with ; )

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

I was a night owl for a few years. Worked 9-5 and just couldn't get to sleep properly at night. A good drink would send me asleep but then up all night pissing and couldn't get back to sleep.

 

As said above lamping probably doesn't help.

 

I had enough of working days and got a job working nights 2 years ago, it's great. I can get 8-10 hours sleep regularly and get 6/7 hours without fail every day. Best I've felt in 10 years and never had so much free time.

[neil82 1,075]

when you find a cure please share, most sodding nights (mornings) go to bed about 3-4am knackered, lie down to go to sleep and within an hour i`m wide awake, getting pissed off with it and don`t feel that its doing me any good, when (if) I do eventually nod off its only for 4 hours at the most then after about a week of it i`ll sleep for 10 hours straight

[Parabuteos lad 878]

Not so much insomnia but I work on call in security and have to wake up (when working) every hour on the hour to make a check call to say im safe and now as a result I wake up every hour on the hour when I'm off

[whiteracer 258]

I was a night owl for a few years. Worked 9-5 and just couldn't get to sleep properly at night. A good drink would send me asleep but then up all night pissing and couldn't get back to sleep.

 

As said above lamping probably doesn't help.

 

I had enough of working days and got a job working nights 2 years ago, it's great. I can get 8-10 hours sleep regularly and get 6/7 hours without fail every day. Best I've felt in 10 years and never had so much free time.

I am the opposite I ve worked nights now 16 years and it's well and truly fcked up my sleeping when I am off shift, when I am sleeping in the day I have to make sure I am up for 3pm to collect the kids from school and when I am off I am awake every hour then in the end the wife starts moaning as I am getting restless so I get up!!

 

I went down the sleeping pill route and that's the only time I ll get a solid 7 hours sleep but don't want to be taking them all the time, so just 'treat' myself on my first night off that way I am guaranteed a decent sleep!!

[Fieldsporthunter 1,864]

Any of you lads suffer? I get it in batches , I can have it for w few weeks then I'll seem to be ok then it will happen again. I've gt a newborn here he will be up in a min for a bottle and I'm on a course tomorrow at work so looks like I'm going to be tired again

I'm the same as you a few weeks every so often.

Nothing worse than feeling like you have to catch up on sleep, you just get you self right and then have another batch of it. . . . can wear you down.

[mushroom 12,878]

Valeria and a spliff helps I tend to do a lot of thinking at night, work, life etc so sometimes it can take a while to shut off. I normally go with it but have found for me playing a program in YouTube drifts me off for some reason.

[BIGLURKS 874]

Used too get in when ever I had any caffeine too the point were one can of coke or a red bull would keep me up till 3 in the morning no matter what time of day could of had a can at 10 in the morning and still be wide awake till 3 in the morning so I very rarely have any caffeine now seems too do the trick but stress is a big factor as we'll

[steve66 3,397]

Sugar can be as bad as caffiene

[lurcherman 887 13,091]

Wax

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

^{i get it in waves a few weeks where ile be up until 3-4 am and as i get up at 6 am to do the hounds and horses ime looking at 2 hours sleep at best...then all day ime dead! and grumpy...with 2 little girls its a challange}

[Giro 2,648]

Try promethazine..

 

Unlike zopiclone or valium it's not addictive.

 

It's a antihistamine,you can buy from a pharmacy without a prescription.

 

It's used for allergies, travel sickness, anxiety-agitation & for sleep.

 

Sainsbury sells 54 tablets (25mg) for £8.

 

I've worked some funning shifts and years of lamping..

 

Laptops & smartphones don't help if you can't nod off.. (Its the back light)

 

Your better off listening to some whale music or guided meadatation.

 

I got a sleep app for my phone.

[bird 9,872]

Try promethazine..

 

Unlike zopiclone or valium it's not addictive.

 

It's a antihistamine,you can buy from a pharmacy without a prescription.

 

It's used for allergies, travel sickness, anxiety-agitation & for sleep.

 

Sainsbury sells 54 tablets (25mg) for £8.

 

I've worked some funning shifts and years of lamping..

 

Laptops & smartphones don't help if you can't nod off.. (Its the back light)

 

Your better off listening to some whale music or guided meadatation.

 

I got a sleep app for my phone.

true with comps, tv, etc all these will hold your sleep back , your better of reading a book by lamp light, then you prob just doze off with 3-4 pages . I found lamping always helped with the walking, and getting to bed 4 30am .would be going over in my head the night up to 5 am, then after would sleep deep for 7 hours, and holding Buck all night would have drained me anyway lol

[tb25 4,627]

Beleave it all not but a good wank helps..