sleep better

I just realized that for the first time in weeks I don’t feel tired. Lately, I have been tired all the time, in the morning, during the day, at night and no amount of sleep or caffeine has helped. I noticed it, but did’t do something about it. I’d wake in the mornings already feeling exhausted, later then frustrated because I wouldn’t get anything done. The fact that it so cold outside (that also means inside due to no insulation and heating) hasn’t helped.

So, I had a little accident yesterday and hurt my ankle pretty badly. I can’t really walk and didn’t do much today. That obviously helped by itself, but more importantly I think, was that I didn’t have to do anything today. Nobody who wanted me go somewhere, do something, call someone…. just me.

It has been hectic lately. The move to the new house has created a new problem everyday, that needs some attention. And the house mate no 1 manages to make any small problem into a huge crisis. I knew that before, but now it is really getting to me. Maybe I just need to talk to here about. I need space, I need calm and I need to let things be.

seems to be helping. Usually, when I take my Ambien I don’t wake up at all, but for the last two nights I have. I kept a little hand-held game on my night table and played that for a few minutes, and then I started to nod off again.

I am making progress this week on sleeping better.

Not a lot, just better – so I must use my prescription meds properly.

thank heavens that my doctor was finally willing to call in 3 more weeks of Ambien! After 2 nights without the meds, I realized that weaning myself off my dependency on it would be an unpleasant process and would take more out of me than I can afford right now.

Since I’m bipolar, weaning myself off meds is probably a bad idea unless I discuss it with my doctor first.

the Ambien really works for me—allowing me to sleep better.

I’m out of Ambien and having a hard time getting the pharmacy to contact my doctor to renew the prescription.

I slept from 10:30 till 1:30 or so, then fitfully (mostly awake) till 5 am. Then slept soundly till 7:15 or so.

I know it would help me not to get on the computer at night (I think the bright light from the screen confuses my brain into thinking it’s daytime). But I do it anyway. Must try to break that bad habit.

I also know it would help to get back to knitting—it’s so soothing and meditative. I may use this as an excuse to buy some more yarn this weekend…

So after taking prescribed sleeping pills (zolpidem) for almost a year, I have decided once again to ditch them. They make me feel like shit the next day and it’s basically being drunk every night…not my style because I don’t drink. I’ve went a different route and am trying melatonin again, the 3mg dosage. It is working so far, but sometimes I have trouble staying asleep still. Hopefully I can get this sorted out before fall semester starts.

ok so i am going to switch the computuer off an hour before i go to bed see what effects that has on my sleep

ok so i am going to switch the computuer off an hour before i go to bed see what effects that has on my sleep

im a bad sleeper asways have been

I fail at this so hard.