Casa Insomnia

[iNsom]

No prob.
You can buy it here, I think its an american website.

http://biovea.net/uk/mobile/product_deta...rchresults

[iNsom]

^My bad, its Luxumberg.
Anyway its where I order mine from.
Delivery is about £5 ($8?) and takes about a 5 days.

[Back2Good]

Harley, if it is the wee hours I'll no doubt be here as well, at least (hopefully) briefly...Worked a 10-hour day (5AM - 3PM) today, took a nap from 4PM - 7PM, and am going to bed now - But that nap is probably going to awaken the insomnia demon somewhere between 2AM and 4AM. The things we do to pay the bills...

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^My bad, its Luxumberg.
Anyway its where I order mine from.
Delivery is about £5 ($8?) and takes about a 5 days.

Nice, Insomnia_Sucks - It's not scheduled, so shouldn't be a problem ordering it.  Thanks again for the tip - And to Audrey Hepburn for hers as well!

[Back2Good]

HAPPY FRIDAY TO MY MIDWESTERN FRIENDS!!

And so we begin....

Oh, Audrey, I'm sensing you had a bad night.  I was so demolished that I took a 1mg Xanax and a 10mg Valium last night instead of my Temazepam, didn't get to sleep until 1AM, but slept soundly until 6:30AM this morning, so I got 5.5 hours of good sleep in, an improvement on my normal 4-5 hours...But that's not something I want to do every night, it has to be reserved as an emergency measure for when I'm so sleep deprived I'm non-functional.  Tonight I can take ZZZQuil, thank God, as it doesn't matter if I'm groggy on a Saturday morning, and skip the benzos altogether.

I hope you have more success tonight, and that this isn't a miserable Friday for you.

[Back2Good]

So it is to be 3:45AM tonight...I suppose I'll go play with the chicks, it sounds like they are awake as well.

[iNsom]

Hope you guys got to sleep!
Much love!

[bnewhart001]

Hello, everybody.  I'm still a newbie around here and figured I'd start looking around the lounges a bit.  Well, it's morning time and two good things happened, my new (hopeful) friends

First, I learned about this lounge.  Thanks for introducing me, @Back2Good.  I don't have it really really bad but sometimes have back'n'forth struggles with insomnia, most of this week being one of those times unfortunately.  It'll be really nice to come here to write a little about what's on my mind to others who understand.  I can often find some relaxation in just writing a little bit of my thoughts.

But that leads to the second good thing.. I slept really well last night, for the first time this week.  I'm really glad, and feel so much better this morning.

Also, that's so cool that you have chicks, Back2Good.  I assume chickens and not like, a following of groupies or something. Hehe.  I come from the families (mom and dad's sides both) of farmers, residents of more rural communities, so there were always chickens, goats and the like at my grandparents when I visited.  As a kid it was the coolest ever, but of course as you grow up you realize that raising animals is a lot of work!  Not as much fun when you start to get "recruited" for the morning chores.  I sure miss those eggs, though.  Nothing like eggs from grandma's chickens.  The kind we get at the stores just don't have the flavor of small farm raised eggs (same for the chicken, too), in my opinion.  I guess you could also mean something

Anyhow, I thought I'd take a moment to come and introduce myself.  I hope to get to know the regulars here and make more friends.  Thanks for anyone taking the time to read a little, and I hope everyone's doing alright out there in the world.   Thankfully it's the weekend now and hopefully if anybody had some trouble, they'll have the weekend free of work or major chores to relax a little and settle the mind.  Again, hope everyone's weekend is off to a good start.

[Back2Good]

This is truly getting out of hand...Awake at 2AM again.  I cannot stand the thought of waiting an hour or more to get back to sleep, so I've raided the two-year old 10mg Zolpidem prescription and chased one down with a full glass of water.  Haven't used the Zolpidem in a couple of years (Doc switched me to Temazepam), so I'm praying it will work well, and am going to lie down and wait for it to do so in order to keep from beclowning myself elsewhere in the house...The last thing I need is to frighten my wife awake and get justifiably plugged with six .38 caliber bullets.  Couldn't blame her for it one bit, I've invested  dozens of hours training her at the range, and working with her at home on the quickest method to get her pistol in hand and on target if she's disturbed in her room in the middle of the night...But I'm certainly not anxious to be the target of her first in-home live fire exercise either.

No, the safest place for me is in my basement bedroom, despite the fact that the real arsenal and my own bedside Ruger GP-100 .357 reside there as well - I'd no doubt miss anything I tried to shoot by a country mile after popping that  Zolpidem, so that room is undoubtedly the safest space in the house tonight.

Rest well, my friends.

- b2g

[Back2Good]

That worked well - 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep after taking that 10mg Zolpidem...But I seem to have awakened with a thundering headache.  Modafinil works well for me when have a rare hangover, am going to wash down 200mg ModAlert 200 and 200mg Phenylpiracetam and see if that fixes it, if not I guess it will be migraine pill time.

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Well, that seems to be confirmed - 30 minutes later, no headache.  Oh, the agony I could have saved myself in my 20's and 30's had I known about Modafinil...Now that I'm in my 50's, I have rare occasions for this "off-label" use of it.

Off to tend to the chickens.

[LilRaquel]

I have found a good way to calm my self to sleepy mode is to snuggle my kitties and try to absorb whatever energy or lack thereof that makes them so good at sleeping. It does work sometimes >^..^<