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I wish I could learn to fall asleep.
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<blockquote data-quote="mom_to_3" data-source="post: 219780" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>Me too! I've had this problem forever it seems and it's aggravating. I didn't have this problem that I can remember when I was in school or working. I think maybe that I brought this on myself after we had children and I quit working. I would stay up late for some quiet, me time after everyone else went to bed. I would get up early with our children and when I needed it, I took a nap when they did. I don't want to do this any more. I'd like to go to sleep between 10 & 11 and get up at a decent hour.</p><p></p><p>But like others here, I just cannot shut my brain down and I lay awake sometimes until 3a.m. it drives me bonkers. Things were really bad for me when I got Graves disease and went hyper thyroid. I'm on high gear when that happens. For whatever reason, my thyroid likes to swing from hyper to hypo and that definately affects me. I also had to take high doses of prednisone for about 6 months or so and that will really mess with your ability to sleep!</p><p></p><p>My family doctor gave me an rx for lorazepam. I was having anxiety and trouble sleeping. He actually said to take it twice a day. I was feeling and sleeping great, but........... I don't want to become addicted to it! I started only taking it in the evenings and only half the rx'd amount, I was still sleeping well. Then I began to worry again about taking it every night and thought I probably shouldn't. So I am now going thru lorazepam withdrawal and one of the symptoms is interrupted, poor quality sleep. Yessireee, it does do that. I haven't had any for a week now and plan to continue but I too have to learn to go to sleep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mom_to_3, post: 219780, member: 30"] Me too! I've had this problem forever it seems and it's aggravating. I didn't have this problem that I can remember when I was in school or working. I think maybe that I brought this on myself after we had children and I quit working. I would stay up late for some quiet, me time after everyone else went to bed. I would get up early with our children and when I needed it, I took a nap when they did. I don't want to do this any more. I'd like to go to sleep between 10 & 11 and get up at a decent hour. But like others here, I just cannot shut my brain down and I lay awake sometimes until 3a.m. it drives me bonkers. Things were really bad for me when I got Graves disease and went hyper thyroid. I'm on high gear when that happens. For whatever reason, my thyroid likes to swing from hyper to hypo and that definately affects me. I also had to take high doses of prednisone for about 6 months or so and that will really mess with your ability to sleep! My family doctor gave me an rx for lorazepam. I was having anxiety and trouble sleeping. He actually said to take it twice a day. I was feeling and sleeping great, but........... I don't want to become addicted to it! I started only taking it in the evenings and only half the rx'd amount, I was still sleeping well. Then I began to worry again about taking it every night and thought I probably shouldn't. So I am now going thru lorazepam withdrawal and one of the symptoms is interrupted, poor quality sleep. Yessireee, it does do that. I haven't had any for a week now and plan to continue but I too have to learn to go to sleep. [/QUOTE]
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