Ever have trouble getting to bed?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ever have trouble getting to bed?

Posted: 5/11/2004 5:50:17 PM EDT

For several days? I can't seem to get myself to bed at night lately. I'm getting up at 5AM and not getting to bed until after midnight some nights. I'm typically one of those "gotta have my 8 hours" kinda guys. I'm not even doing anything productive with the time, just goofing off on the web and watching TV. Don't want to start drinking, even though I think that would probably cure it. Hell, I've even fallen asleep on the sofa watching TV, only to drag myself over to the office to check out the web on the computer.

Somebody knock me out before this gets out of hand!

Posted: 5/11/2004 5:51:35 PM EDT

[#1]

1, 4 Butinol

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Posted: 5/11/2004 5:52:25 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
For several days? I can't seem to get myself to bed at night lately. I'm getting up at 5AM and not getting to bed until after midnight some nights. I'm typically one of those "gotta have my 8 hours" kinda guys. I'm not even doing anything productive with the time, just goofing off on the web and watching TV. Don't want to start drinking, even though I think that would probably cure it. Hell, I've even fallen asleep on the sofa watching TV, only to drag myself over to the office to check out the web on the computer.

Somebody knock me out before this gets out of hand!

Yep, way too much.

Posted: 5/11/2004 5:53:03 PM EDT

[#3]

you're getting old

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:10:35 PM EDT

[#4]

I will tonight and for the next few nights. I am so pissed off at those savages who just murdered a fellow American!

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:15:25 PM EDT

[#5]

Benadryl! Works for me.

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:15:28 PM EDT

[#6]

I had that same problem several months ago.

My doctor gave me a bottle of Ambien. I took it for a week and was fine. I'd fall asleep fast and wake up feeling fine.

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:18:33 PM EDT

[#7]

For about 4 years now.

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:20:31 PM EDT

[#8]

All the time, I can't sleep good.

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:31:34 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
All the time, I can't sleep good.

x 2

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:32:47 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Quoted:
All the time, I can't sleep good.

x 2

x 3

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:33:49 PM EDT

[#11]

Insomnia is a real BITCH!!!!!

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:34:03 PM EDT

[#12]

1/2 of an Ambien will put you to sleep and leave you feeling well rested in the morning. I used to take a benadryl but they make me groggy the next day.

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:34:56 PM EDT

[#13]

get a chick to move in with you. should wear your skinny ass out by 9 pm

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:36:35 PM EDT

[#14]

I always wake up early this time of year becaue the sun rises so early. Sounds like stress in your case though.

I don't think you get very good sleep with booze. One of my buddy's was like that while having business problems and would take over the counter sleeping pills. I'd never do it because it seems like a bad habit to start, but it worked for him and he didn't doit for very long

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:39:21 PM EDT

[#15]

A comfortable bed, with comfortable house temperature does wonders for me.

Sometimes I start to think about web stuff, and lay in bed thinking about until I get up, check Iout what info I wanted, then go to bed.

The web is addictive. Like alcohol. Don't turn to alcohol to cure your first addiction.

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:43:30 PM EDT

[#16]

Ever single night.

If I unplugged this blue lifeline from my computer I'd get so much more done.

Or an anti-gun Net Nanny to keep me off sites like this

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:50:19 PM EDT

[#17]

try working 6:30 at night till 6:30 in the morning and see what it's like to go to bed or be awake during "normal" hours on your days off.
i have no solution for you, just some sympathy because the above is my life. can't get out of bed till noon, go to bed at normal hours, but just toss and turn till about 5 am when i finally slip into a good sleep.
not sleeping right sucks.

Posted: 5/11/2004 6:56:10 PM EDT

[#18]

I can't sleep at all. I even tried benadryl, melitonin (sp) and other stuff that makes you tired. I just can't freaking sleep. Sucks to be tired all the time, but never sleep.

Posted: 5/11/2004 7:05:30 PM EDT

[#19]

Norman74, are you exercising regularly? I work rotating shift work and it plays hell with my sleeping patterns also. It seems t help me to sleep.

Posted: 5/11/2004 7:09:19 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I had that same problem several months ago.

My doctor gave me a bottle of Ambien. I took it for a week and was fine. I'd fall asleep fast and wake up feeling fine.

Cut that ambien into 1/4ths.
It will work just as well and you will be clearer minded in the AM.

Posted: 5/11/2004 7:12:33 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I had that same problem several months ago.

My doctor gave me a bottle of Ambien. I took it for a week and was fine. I'd fall asleep fast and wake up feeling fine.

Cut that ambien into 1/4ths.
It will work just as well and you will be clearer minded in the AM.

Good suggestion, I had trouble with sleeping pills making me feel worse than if I'd gotten no sleep at all.

Posted: 5/11/2004 7:15:59 PM EDT

[#22]

Yes. Especially when an innocent kid gets executed for trying to help a bunch of slackjawed.....you get the picture. Man, what a freakin' world we live in. Man!

Posted: 5/11/2004 8:09:01 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
get a chick to move in with you. should wear your skinny ass out by 9 pm

That didnt work, I was up until 7AM.

Yea I have trouble sleeping, have for years.

Posted: 5/11/2004 8:21:52 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
For several days? I can't seem to get myself to bed at night lately. I'm getting up at 5AM and not getting to bed until after midnight some nights. I'm typically one of those "gotta have my 8 hours" kinda guys. I'm not even doing anything productive with the time, just goofing off on the web and watching TV. Don't want to start drinking, even though I think that would probably cure it. Hell, I've even fallen asleep on the sofa watching TV, only to drag myself over to the office to check out the web on the computer.

Somebody knock me out before this gets out of hand!

I have been having the same problem for the past two years now, It could be due to stress. I have been told not to drink cokes before I go to bed, also you might drinking a few beers before you go to bed sometimes it helps me. A friend of mine works at GNC where I work off duty he told me to use some pills called MELATONIN 3 it helps me get to bed in about 15 mintues.

Posted: 5/11/2004 9:25:01 PM EDT

[#25]

I've had that problem for well over 40 years....I think I'm a NIGHT PERSON

Posted: 5/11/2004 9:27:29 PM EDT

[#26]

Yea, thats how it always is for me...

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD I HAVE TESTING TOMARROW

SHIIITE I need to go to sleep...

First, I must finish checking my ARFCOM posts