I haven't been around here for a while. Sorry to read that you, like me, are still having difficult nights. I have accepted that it is what it is although last night I did something very stupid which was to go listen to a podcast about the origin of conspiracy theories. More fool me. Have a lovely weekend all.
Sorry I missed you, @rowlandscastle444. Woke up from a very busy and involved dream and spent an hour awake. We usually turn the bedroom heat down overnight, but with the drop in temperature, it got rather on the cold side. I should have got up and thrown a blanket on the bed, but couldn’t be bothered. Got back to sleep but it was rather disturbed. I’ll start with the extra blanket tonight, easier to kick it off than put it on!
Still not sleeping much overnight. Old habits are hard to throw off. We do now have curtain rail and curtains in the bedroom after more than two months in the place. Large pieces of cardboard had sufficed until last night.
Actually, I slept better with the cardboard up!!
But, worries about hospital visits have been weighing on my mind.
Oh dear, sorry to hear that things haven’t improved. Do you have a good source of distractions to keep your mind off worries in the middle of the night? I’ve found doing logic puzzles very good, reading books less so as I then get into the story and find it hard to put down. That said, I’ve been sleeping better for a few weeks now. No idea why, so no helpful suggestions though! Hope the hospital appointments get sorted, and provide reassurance rather than extra worries. I do try hard to follow my own advice, which is that it’s not usually worth worrying unnecessarily about anything in advance of it happening. If it does happen, I can worry about it then. If it doesn’t, I’ll have wasted time and put myself through a lot of distress for nothing. ( There is necessary worry of course, making sure I’ve arranged transport / checked routes and timetables etc, made a list of what I might need to take, but once those are done, can be put out of mind)
Thank you @Ergates for your concern. Ironically, due to the planned doctors' strikes, it looks as though my surgery, and associated appointments, will be postponed. Life was already on hold. Now, like so many others, it will be on hold for longer. Still, I understand the need for consultants to step up and take the place of junior doctors in emergency work. I would not want someone in A&E to suffer because they could not be treated.
I have a question for the insomniacs on this forum who wake up very early, rather than fail to get to sleep in the first place. It’s because I’ve recently started waking up earlier and earlier, worse every night, with no physical or emotional reason to account for it. I’d heard that this is common in later life, but at 59, I wasn’t expecting it yet. So I’m wondering, when you started with this problem? Thanks for any thoughts 😊.
Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.
I'm having, and have had for some time now, a similar problem @Emerion I seem to need less sleep - or on occasions, make up for it by having a nap at other times of the day. My age is similar to yours.
Have you spoken to your GP. There might be an underlying issue that has not made its presence known yet. MRI or EEG might pick something up. Something you are not aware of yet - except for the insomnia.
However, if there really is nothing wrong, then just accept it, but rest still. It cannot hurt you.
I’ve always been an early waker … many generations of farming genes give me no option. And when we had a smallholding I’d be up at 5:45 am ready to milk the goats and feed the ponies, pigs, sheep, bullocks and poultry while the bacon and sausages for the family breakfast was in the Rayburn oven.
Nowadays I still wake and am up and about early ish and housework and cooking prep etc all gets done in the morning.
Mind you I’m tiring by evening and ready to go to bed just after 9.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I did get 10 minutes snooze this afternoon.
No major damage in the garden - or elsewhere. Broken twigs around the place, but easy to clear. Dustbin had blown over.
I haven't been around here for a while. Sorry to read that you, like me, are still having difficult nights. I have accepted that it is what it is although last night I did something very stupid which was to go listen to a podcast about the origin of conspiracy theories. More fool me.
Have a lovely weekend all.
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We do now have curtain rail and curtains in the bedroom after more than two months in the place. Large pieces of cardboard had sufficed until last night.
Actually, I slept better with the cardboard up!!
But, worries about hospital visits have been weighing on my mind.
Hope the hospital appointments get sorted, and provide reassurance rather than extra worries. I do try hard to follow my own advice, which is that it’s not usually worth worrying unnecessarily about anything in advance of it happening. If it does happen, I can worry about it then. If it doesn’t, I’ll have wasted time and put myself through a lot of distress for nothing. ( There is necessary worry of course, making sure I’ve arranged transport / checked routes and timetables etc, made a list of what I might need to take, but once those are done, can be put out of mind)
Still, I understand the need for consultants to step up and take the place of junior doctors in emergency work. I would not want someone in A&E to suffer because they could not be treated.
I seem to need less sleep - or on occasions, make up for it by having a nap at other times of the day.
My age is similar to yours.
Have you spoken to your GP. There might be an underlying issue that has not made its presence known yet. MRI or EEG might pick something up. Something you are not aware of yet - except for the insomnia.
However, if there really is nothing wrong, then just accept it, but rest still. It cannot hurt you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.