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problems with dsps
by: Terry on Mon, Jan 21 2008
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Hello :-D

I only found this site 2 weeks ago and to know im not on my own with this problem has halved the guilt feelings I have …

Iv been on every sleeper you can think of, taken valium day and night & even my antidepressants are sleepers now :-( BUT !!!!!!!!! nothing works, nothing puts me to sleep Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I lie there from 11 ish and don’t get to sleep till roughly 4-6 am every day 7 days a week :-( … I get that restless leg thing going and that drives me nuts :-O so up I get and do stuff then try again … I dread it when the sun goes down as its the same thing over and over …

At the moment im away from my hubby, its really affecting our marriage, I have tried to keep myself positive and do things at night so as to not waste the time, but he wants me NORMAL and that just isn’t going to happen Booo Hoooo I cant see why he’s wanting me to change something I cant and especially when I was like this when I met him (I didn’t have a name for it but I sure had it)

Last night or this morning I couldn’t get to sleep at all so iv not been to sleep since 11 am yesterday morning (its now 11:30 am) and im waiting for tonight so hopefully I can just crash out ???? with a bit of luck … I do this probably 2-3 times a week, I go for up to 42 hours without sleep so I can try and get back in the NORMAL pattern … Its not worked as yet but like I say to everyone I know failing that its a hammer, I think that would be the only way to knock me out at 10 pm like the NORMAL people :-(

Ahhhhh well good luck guys and if you find a cure pleaseeeeeeeeeee let me know (yawn)

Take care, Terry (AU)
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January 2008

  • problems with dsps - by Terry - (Mon, Jan 21 2008)
    Hello I only found this site 2 weeks ago and to know im not on my own with this problem has halved the guilt feelings I have … Iv been on every sleeper you can think of, [more..]
  • DSPS for 53 years..just didn’t know the name! - by Nightweaver - (Thu, Jan 17 2008)
    I love the internet. Most my life I fought this disorder, not knowing it had a name (well, most of my life it didn’t have a name). Recieved mediocre grades in high school because math and science courses were always in the mornings. [more..]
  • Relief - by Laura - (Mon, Jan 07 2008)
    I am so relieved: my New Year’s resolution was to sort myself out in terms of sleeping hours. I knew that as many many years before this would be a nightmare, so I googled ’sleeping rhythm’ just in case I’d find any tips for becoming a better sleeping person. [more..]
  • Wow im glad - by VS - (Wed, Jan 02 2008)
    I am 17 years old and I have always been a “night owl”. I usually go to sleep around 5-7am and wake up at 3 or 4pm its horrible. I left my public high school and enrolled in a homeschool because it was so hard for me to wake up. I was doing poorly in public high school, but in homeschool im doing great. [more..]

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