Today, my insomnia wins. I'm too wired and awake to sleep, but too stoned on my sleeping pills to get up and do something productive. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I'm doing the school run. I went to bed early and took a sleeping pill for my insomnia so I could be productive. Even if I could sleep past my partner snoring like a cave bear with sinus infection, it turns out that my sleeping pills make me hyper. The next person who says ADHD is fun is getting slapped. FML
Today, I woke up after taking the new sleeping pills I was prescribed for my insomnia. I slept for 12 hours and had 5 missed calls from my boss. FML
Today, after a week of insomnia, I finally managed to fall asleep. Thirty minutes later, my friends decided to bang on my door, yelling at me to wake up and party with them. I'm now wide awake and hallucinating from lack of sleep. FML
Today, I've been awake for 4 days. My doctor recently put me on enough sleeping pills to kill a small country, but when I take them it's like a shot of adrenaline. I'm wide awake and tired as all hell at the same time. FML
Today, I was finally diagnosed with insomnia. The trouble is, because of my physical disability, I also have diagnosed chronic fatigue. Barely can stay awake during the day, can't sleep at night. FML
Today, I have to wake up in 3 hours for work, the medicine that should've made me sleep 8 hours straight failed and I woke up an hour later, not being able to sleep anymore. FML
Today, I found that I have a rare side effect to the hydrocodone prescribed after surgery. One pill keeps me up for almost 24 hours. Either I'm in tremendous pain and try to sleep, or I'm not in much pain and stay awake. I can't win. FML
Today, I'm an insomniac. My husband knows this but still woke me up throwing a fit because he lost a round on his stupid fucking cellphone game. He has to watch a 15 second ad for another life; meanwhile, I’ll be lucky if I fall back asleep before the sun comes up. FML
Today, my brain hates me and refuses to let me sleep. No matter how physically exhausted I am, my mind just keeps racing. I just wanna get some sleep! FML
Today, there are two parts to my life: The 12 hours I spend in bed each night trying to fall asleep, with limited success, and the 12 hours I'm up and trying *not* to fall asleep, also with limited success. FML
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MRP360 14
this is your chance to write the script for alice in wonderland 2, we all know the writers were on some shit
cinskeep43 15
Nah write an original movie too many remakes and sequels
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allplayedout 20
I've had similar chronic insomnia since I was about 5. It can really destroy your quality of life since good sleep is the foundation of good health. I don't know if your doctors have just been treating the symptom (insomnia) by giving you sleeping pills, or whether y'all are working at discovering what is causing the insomnia--if the former, you may be benefitted by keeping a symptom diary for a month, including everything you experience (acne? Temperature intolerance? Dry hair/skin/nails? Bowel problems? Thirst? Certain times of day you feel most tired? Body pain? Depression? Etc) and tallying your symptoms to try and narrow down what possible culprits there could be and what additional tests should be run to get some real answers. In the meantime, don't beat yourself up or make yourself even more anxious about your inability to sleep. Do whatever you need to relax, even if sleep doesn't come. Good luck :)
toesparkle 13
I feel your pain. This happens to me at least three nights a week.
DmenteD3vil 9
productivity...? never heard of it
mailto 1
Sorry to hear. Feel you, bro.