does anyone suffer from insomia out there? how dos it affect you ?

Insomnia is a curse to me. Whenever I have it, I can't concentrate in class, I have pimples and those ugly circles under my eyes. I get really low blood pressure, and I'm very pale. And my skin doesn't look nice. Through my study, though, insomnia is a sign that something is bothering a person. It is a consistent sign of depression. We deal with it through meds. The other thing is to overcome depression. The longest time I was wide awake was 46 hours, and it was just so hard because in my profession, I need to stay alert. Sometimes, I get to bed and try to sleep until morning..so most of the times, I go to school without sleep. This sleep disorder takes soo mu ch of my time and energy. I never get fat, I never got rid of the dark circles under my eyes, the same thing applies with my pimples.. And I don't get to think straight. Sometimes, when I lack sleep, I become more focused (just like with mild anxiety). I become more energetic and much task-oriented. But then, at the end of the day, my body hurts as if I've been run over by 10 people. My head aches like hell, that tension headache. And then comes migraine, the worst headache of all. So I tried different methods to get to sleep whenever I want. First, I found out that when I eat meat, I feel a little sleepy right after. Then I exercised, or when I can't, I just tire myself. And the last and my most favorite, I get a full cold shower right after tiring myself. It worked for me that way.™

Insomnia affects me to the degree that I may only get 4 hours sleep a night. My state of mind at work is fuzzy to say the least lol! Little things start to annoy me, and I can't wait to come home and get some sleep. Then, when I get home, I can't go to sleep at all! My mind races about things I need to do, or things I should have done but didn't. It's 4:00 AM now, and I'm tired....but not sleepy, ya know? Could it be our hectic lifestyles affect the amount of sleep we get? I have so many online things going on, it's crazy! After I'm done with those, I have "real" life things to attend to. Does this make sense to anyone? :)

i do. i have a very low rbc (red blood cells) because i have been having a hard time sleeping at night. when i was still working, i fainted in front of my co-employees. that has become one of the major reasons why i quit work and just decided to start a new business for myself.

As you know I suffer from insomnia at the moment as I am pregnant. Hopefully it will disappear for me when baby arrives. But then the baby will keep me up all night, lol. I think I am getting used to lack of sleep, must be surviving on adrenalin. I learnt a useful tip of a friend of mine today on getting to sleep. She said you start at your toes, saying there is my little toe, my big toe, then slowly go up the body stating each body part. Just making your mind aware. Hopefully by the time you reach your eyes, you will be zonked out. I have not tried it yet, but I will tonight. Give it a try, let me know if it works.

I suffer from extreme insomnia I either sleep for a few hours, or up for days. I have a few mental issues that may be the cause if it, but the hard part is my brain overloads on stuff and now I have no short term memory. I forget it as fast as I do it. It does make living a "normal" life hard. I am very lucky to have real friends in my life that accept my menals issues and are really supportive of me.

i used to suffer from insomnia but then i bought these hypnosis cd's for insomnia ans now i get to sleep easily. if you want i can send you these files , message me if your intrested

hey theer owl..happy day to ya..i have been there so much over the last few months..i cant seem to fasll asleep at night at all..either its my hunny snoring..its too hot..my ahnea machine is bugging me..or i have a milion things on my mind..or hell theer have ben many times nothings on my mind and i stil can sleep!! But come about 8am or 9am..and im out cold..i have even stayed up for a day to 3 to try and get me on track..nope..my body hates sleeping at night and i dont get it...well i just got Ambien and it helos me sleep threw but i am looking into Ambien CR to knock me out faster...i wish u the best luck ever!

Lord have mercy yes do I suffer from insomnia! I came over to my parent's house an hour ago because I was tired of staring at my ceiling trying to sleep. I cleaned, I got on the computer, I prayed, I watched TV, I did low impact yoga, nothing worked! I always have had insomnia, but last night has been the worst in a while. I was in pain a little bit more than usual, and my upstairs neighbor decided she needed to do all her cleaning in the middle of the night. Including vacuuming and emptying out her dresser drawers!

You told that you are suffer with insomnia. You can not sleep early at night. You use to start your sleeping hours at 3:00 am. It is common to many people. Those people who sleep at morning hours and get up late in the day, they suffer insomnia like you. Solution of your problem is that you should fight against the asleep, which use to come at early in the morning. Avoid sleeping in morning hours. And keep your self awake up in the day hours. You will feel tired in the evening and you will also feel desire of sleep. Try to get up early in the morning and keep your self awaking during the day hours. You will fee tired and desire of sleeping very early at night. This is a simple remedy of your problem. Test this today, you will get a good result. Proper sleeping is very important for mental and physical health.

Hi Littlowl I have just had a thought so I will share. With a name like Littleowl, perhaps you are just a night bird which is why you have trouble sleeping at night. Some people are night people while others are morning people etc. Not a serious answer but have been awake a lot in the night myself tonight and for some reason this came into my head re your insomnia quesion LOL Ellie :D

That is because you have been sleeping very late in the night regularly and your body has got used to that timings. Hereafter sleep regularly at a fixed time and see that you get used to it. I always sleep early in the night and sleep for 8 hours daily. That is my beauty sleep and I have to get it. If by chance I go to bed late I will not able to sleep for sometime and get headache in the mornings.

I usually go to sleep around 2-4am and it really sucks. I guess it affects me, I schedule all my classes at around noon because I usually wake up at around 10 or 11am. I think if I tried to fix my sleeping schedule I would be fine but doing that is so hard for me. Right now its fine because I'm a college student but once I get out into the real world I think that it would really be a problem. Hopefully by then I'll be fine though! :)

I do suffer from insomnia in two different manners, sometimes I can't sleep about 2-3 am and even if I sleep about 10-11 I'm not feeling well.Sometimes I sleep to early, like you , and I'm awake about 1am and I must read or watching tv about 6am, whem my eyes are closing.?This is bad because at 6 am I must go to my work.Sometimes I must take sleeping pills, but I don't want to do this every night.