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RE: Insomniac support and tips
July 6, 2016 at 8:52 pm
I have trouble sleeping occasionally now. Mostly I just wake up too early. It's worse now because with my wonky knee I can't exercise as much. I take cyclobenzaprrine many nights to help me sleep in. It's just a muscle relaxant but it seems to keep me comfortable enough not to wake up too early.
Rarely now I'll have trouble getting to sleep at all. Then I just deal with it the next day. But the next night I'll take a zolpidium, generic for ambien. I also take one the night before my wife travels. She always packs all night and it lets me sleep anyway.
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RE: Insomniac support and tips
July 7, 2016 at 9:46 am
I just got 9 hours of glorious sleep. Finally.
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RE: Insomniac support and tips
July 7, 2016 at 11:38 pm
4:30 am... now to pretend I'm sleeping until 7 a.m....
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RE: Insomniac support and tips
July 7, 2016 at 11:40 pm
Just use sleep aids.
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RE: Insomniac support and tips
July 7, 2016 at 11:52 pm
Becoming mentally exhausted works for me.
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RE: Insomniac support and tips
July 8, 2016 at 12:00 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2016 at 12:07 am by Athene.)
I average about 3 hours of sleep a night. I have 7 alarms set on my phone (2-3 minutes apart) to ensure that I actually wake up in the morning. If I sleep 4 hours, I'll wake up on my own or at the the first alarm, and feel reasonably energetic throughout the day.
If I get 5 hours of sleep, I'm goddamned Superwoman; virtually unstoppable. Co-workers stare at me like they're thinking:
"Is this bitch high?"
