INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

M0mmyof3

sas-schatzi

Hi Mommy. "Silly McNoodles"

Loveroflife

I am Timid O'doodles and my 80 % Irish twin from another mother is Silly O'doodles. Hibernating is her hobby.

Ms. Sas, what was it that helped me? His abundant grace

queenmomcat

Sas: glad to see you pop up after so long. Just don't ask me about probabilities; I'm taking statistics for the second time this semester. TI-84 calculator on the brain.

M0mmyof3

I was Adorable McWobbles

Smaarty

nice to see some posting, I shouldn’t talk. Hard to be on here after several sisters passed.

On the baby front, DGD is 7x1/2 months. Says she ready to pop. She didn’t go full term the first time, so she didn’t get this big before. Poor baby, she’s still has a ways to go! This was 2 weeks ago. His name will be Jace Arthur, due May 12

Loveroflife

Two more months? Poor girl. She looks ripe.

Loveroflife

Too bad this is not my child's.

feelingfeline

Smaarty wonderful news! Best wishes XXX

feelingfeline

Lover ha! Not my child's either.

M0mmyof3

Lover, that is hilarious

M0mmyof3

Just looked at the date and realized that I am celebrating 6 yrs of survival!

karen1956

Yeah mommy!!!

Loveroflife

MOMMY~Celebrating with you behind the screen

M0mmyof3

Thanks gals!

LinnyG

well, here I am wide awake again. Pn anastrozole. I fall asleep around 10, then up by midnight. There's a cycle to it: 2 or 3 hrs of sleep for 4 or 5 nights. Then, I guess I'm exhausted and I get whole 5 or 6hrs., interrupted by hot flashes. Then the cycle starts over. I take Benadryl, melatonin, essential oil, Sleepytime tea every night. I exercise about 8 or 9 hrs/wk, always in morning. Never nap. This is torture! Will call onc tomorrow. Maybe trazadone. Do not want Ambien. We are on 'vacation' and with adult son and grandson. Trying to keep upbeat. But holy cow. I want sleep! Thanks for listening.

Beatmon

It seems that most of us are searching desperately for sleep, myself included. Misery

sas-schatzi

Sleep  Oh Glorious Sleep. Hi Linny You are doing all the right things. If you try trazadone, would you let me know what you think. I have to change what I'm doing.
Ya know that info about benzo's messing with short term memory. I will attest to the fact that it does. I take Ativan to sleep need to get off it

Smarrty she looks so good. Love the name. So strong. 

Loverly very funny.

Queenie. STATS class is AWFUL. I never even attempted. Kudois to you for even attempting. A definite celebration is in the future when you are done.

Mommy congrats YAYYAYYAY 6years.

Cataract #1 doing good. 

Only I could get a sore from facial waxing, on a drug. No more waxing.
 New cancer, Basal cell on my nose, MOHs surgery Tues.  Little bitty thing. Hope the base is itty bitty.

hearing aids are coming along. Going to get the bell.s and whistles Starkey. But the revelation is I need to get a CELL PHONE. I've resisted so long. I -phone 6 or better. I will have son work on the phone part. They have this app that allows for all kinds of things. I figure I've waited 50 years, I'm going for the lambourghini of hearing aids.

Family gathering to see Sawyer today. I' will try for some pictures with my kindle.

Donnie got a haircut. Looks so handsome when he does. Anyone who has read Harry Potter knows his hair is suppose to be in disarray all the time. That's my Donnie.

Hugs

M0mmyof3

Was having a pretty good day until I got news that a cousin of mine passed away. Didn’t even know she had been sick. I am shattered

queenmomcat

Sassy: I'll let you know when I'm done with stats. It better be this semester! 'cause I'm not doing this bleep class again. If all goes right, I'm going to 'walk' with a Business-IT track degree in May and double back for a Computer Science applications development class from Local Community College

MommyOf2: I'm so sorry to hear this. Shattered doesn't begin to cover my reaction if this happened to me.

M0mmyof3

Thanks qmc. Still trying to process it.

M0mmyof3

CeliaC

Wild Peep here - hahaha! Hello to all and happy spring!

M0mmyof3

Getting so sick of all the rain we have been getting. I need ☀️!

mnsotamom74

Does anyone else not sleep in the bed with their spouse/significant other anymore? I had my ovaries removed April 3rd and instant menopause on top of starting anastrozole two weeks ago has my already life long issues with insomnia to be that much worse. I have found that when I do fall asleep, I'm easily awoken by light, sounds, etc.(even when using a sleep mask and ear plugs) and my husband wakes me up and then he's sound asleep happily while I'm wide awake. Two weeks ago I began sleeping in a different room and it's not perfect sleep but it's much better than it was. On top of this my depression/anxiety (also life long issues) have been beyond bad, seeing a psychiatrist to work on the best anti depressants, although she has said, I'm going to have to also fight like hell since there is no magic pill that is going to completely take all this away. I feel so bad. I've been married 26 years and cancer was bad enough but now all this other crap. I finally understand why after my mom's bc diagnosis and being put on Aromisin 8 years ago, she and my dad have separate bedrooms (same issue for her with sleep). I never wanted this for my marriage and we're still intimate, but I feel beyond guilty for not being able to share a bed at night with my husband, but so desperate for some sleep. I just wanted to know if it's just me. Thanks for letting me vent.

Anonymous

Hello! New to this thread.

My hubby and I started sleeping in different rooms when I had my BMX. He was afraid of bumping into me in the night and hurting me so he started sleeping in the spare room. Then as I started having insomnia it just made it easier for me to have my own space. If he got up or even turned over it would wake me up. He gets up for work around 4:00 in the morning and that wasn't helpful with my insomnia either. So it just made sense to continue our current sleeping arrangement. We've been married 36 years, we are still totally in love and completely committed to each other. So much so that we choose to sleep in different rooms.

Beatmon

We also are in separate bedrooms due to terrible sleep problems. I hate it

M0mmyof3

To all the moms out there including Pet Moms and for the moms in Heaven, a very Happy Mother's Day!

gailmary

I thought we'd end up in separate bedrooms soon but then i stopped the aromatase inhibitor. I was very sad about the prospect. I think my chances were good of starting the night together but after waking, often cause I'm hot, I'd switch to the vacant cooler bed. Who would have thought that the cancer could affect even that aspect of our lives.

I will admit here some of my sleep interruptions are due to a noisy cat wanting attention. He will be leaving us in another week or so.

A lifeling insomniac,

GAILMARY

mnsotamom74

thank you ladies, feeling less alone about all of this. My husband and I had a heart to heart and he misses me next to him at night but he also feels so bad if he’s causing me to wake just as I feel bad when all my tossing and turning and in and out of bed wake him. He reassured me that where we sleep in the house at night is not as important as just continuing to be supportive and there for each other in our day to day living. It’s so frustrating, I knew cancer would change my life in so many ways, this definitely wasn’t one area I was prepared for