Does anyone have problems sleeping?

[Pebbs]

I cant believe Im asking this, some mornings Im up at 4am Ive been really putting some hours in for the last few months and Im totally wiped out by 3pm. The phone calls are crazy and Im still getting work related calls till 10pm some nights, until I get to the stage when I cant even think straight. Yet I cant sleep.....and even at the weekends theres a little alarm clock that goes off in my head and Im off and running again.

Its like I cant close the door on work, it keeps churning in my head, get this quote out...put an application in for this, check the production...revise the works program the list goes on and on. Do the rest of you go through this?

Pebbs

 

[doug boardley]

no sleeping probs from me Lynn, altho I do sleep funny hours! I find that 5 hours kip, no more, no less, does wonders, no bull

 

[nybor62]

sounds like you need a holiday pebbs

 

[user123]

Yep, Pebbs, stress. If a break fro it all isn't possible and you don't want to go down the sleeping pills / tranquiliser route, pm me and we can talk about herbal and homoeopathic ideas (I used to have a practice...)

 

[strummerman]

iam the same av been for years always wide awake at 4 in the morning lucky if i get a good 4 hrs kip:yikes:

 

[Pebbs]

At this rate I'll be forming a midnight club...I dont feel stressed, well I do sometimes but its not a permanent feeling. We all have stresses day to day dont we? I dont want to end up like my mum who some nights will only sleep a couple of hours.

Pebbs

 

[Andy Allen]

i could sleep on a washing line, allways been the same, when i was a kid my mum was worried about me starting school because i was still haveing a 3 hour kip in the afternoon :yikes:

even now i cant function properly unless i get me 8 hours in

 

[kilty55]

you need a weeks holiday pebbs whenever i start feeling that way i know its time for a break from it.....i finalise and organise all jobs i need to then take a break from it

 

[faithhealer]

You need a break Lynn, at least when I go to bed it's like throwing a switch and I'm out!

 

[davy_G]

You have that much going on it seems you find it hard to switch off and continue to think things over in bed.
You need decent sleep to square away everything in your head and rest up the limbs.
Do you ever do any exercise? Even if its only a 20 minute walk in the evening. I like to run, sounds daft but i do alot of thinking when i run and it blows away the cobwebs.

A break form work might do the trick, are you working 7 days a week? If so book a bit less work and get your weekends back and do something with your family or mates.

 

[mikethetile]

Lynn

take care of yourself, I used to be the same, some nights it wasnt worth going to bed as by the time I had sorted everything I couldnt sleep anyway and like you I would have a 4am start to get into london by 6.30 am

first of all my first wife felt neglected and found someone else, not bothered about her but I missed my kids

then 6 heart attacks , I didnt know they were my heart and was chewing anti acid tablets as I thought it was heartburn

the 6th one nearly killed me and it ws only because I was working on a doctors house that I survived as he got the ambulance out

since then i have had a lot of time to reflect, ive had a heart op but the muscle is still damaged and I have an irregular heart beat, I also have an enlarged heart which doesnt help

I could have avoided all of this and still had asuccessfull business if I had taken care

limit your work time and switch off, get in the car switch your phones off and take a drive somewhere and just have a walk, maybe a soft drink in a country pub and just chill. let it all drift away from you. its still there when you return

have a bit of me time. its hard to start with but it gets easier

nowadays I dont give a monkeys, works is work and the rest is me time

better that than dead

mike

 

[Olz]

I used to have problems sleeping in the old house, but it was in a real bad area, and it really really grated on me that we couldnt afford to move and we were basically trapped their, it was the helpless feeling that did it and my mind wouldnt switch off, it would just race all night.

We managed to pull of a move against all the odds by pure luck of being in the right place at the right time, doing a domestic bathroom on a new build estate where we had tried to but the year before but couldnt. I mentioned it to the guy about how nice the estate was and I had tried to buy but couldnt get enough for the old house.

He mentioned that the last house available from the builder on the estate had fallen through and they were desperate to get it shifted and get the sales staff onto the next development being started.

I popped to see the sales woman and basically told her I had heard they were desperate to shift the last house and told her the situation with the house we were in and basically said that i didnt want to waste either of our times if there was no chance of them being able to do a deal, but to let me know if they might be able to.

They rang me a couple of weeks later, bought our house worth about 90k for 115k!!

Theirs had already been reduced from 215k to 175k and ontop of that they paid a 5% deposit for us too.

Been here a year now, so peacefull and stress free. No probs sleeping any more so im convinced its things niggling away at you that stop you sleeping.

I did have some sleeping trouble the other week because we moved the bed to decorate and when we put it back it was squeking like mad, but a hammer soon sorted that!!!!

I get up at 7am every morning though now, have done for a while, and take the dogs out, even on weekends.

I used to find that if a layed in, i wouldnt be tired on a night, so would stay up till 3 or 4 in the morning, then lay in again, wasting days on end.

 

[jay]

average between 4 -5 hours a night (not work related) you get by:8:

 

[albyshellshear]

I have sleep problems and even have a CPAP machine but lately I am finding thats not working either, I can drop off to sleep no problem its staying asleep I find dificult, but I am now thinking I need to loose weight and exercise its difficult when your greedy and lazy like me lol :lol:

 

[paul flight]

sounds like you need that holiday. london can be manic at the best of times. done 10 yeays all over the greater london area for fired earth . i was the same only sleeping for 5-6 hours was nackerd by 3.30pm. sounds like you need to spread the load as well . if you need some help with work let me know !! all the best to you try to have at lest 1 hr to your self and just chill out .

 

[murf]

Do you drink a lot of tea or coffee? Caffeine can cause insomnia in a lot of people.

 

[Pebbs]

Murf,
I drink coffee in the morning, but never in the afternoons, then I switch to tea. I packed in drinking during the week, and rarely drink now. Two glasses of wine, and Im plastered :8: I wish I could slow down, but its not possible right now. However I have decided I am going away in September first break in years, the lads can deal with all the demands for a week.

Pebbs

 

[enduro]

My wife had trouble sleeping, then a friend suggested a Hot Tub...My wife goes in for around 1/2 hour before she goes to bed. Its totally changed her as it relaxes her then she can sleep...( She dosent go in with my friend, we have our own..:lol🙂

 

[Bolter]

Your brain needs to wind down in the evening with no stimulation. Like being on the internet is stimulation for example, so I suggest giving yourself a cut off time of say 8pm, where all you do from then on is watch a little TV or similar, and wind down.

I used to cook in restaurants, and being up early, and working till quite late, I would get home, and Im still buzzing from service even though its midnight, and I would have to just chill in front of the box for a bit before I could get some sleep.

all the best

 

[hillhead]

I'v been under pressure working lately and noticed sleep pattern changing too,
too much work is not good but i have found that climbing on my mountain bike and going for a session through a local forest trail works a treat,my wife can drop off quickly and sleep for 8 hours every night no probs! i find even when i have a drink at night i can sleep better.
Eat well Lynn and try some exercise or a hobby to take your mind off work.

 

[mikethetile]

I'v been under pressure working lately and noticed sleep pattern changing too,
too much work is not good but i have found that climbing on my mountain bike and going for a session through a local forest trail works a treat,my wife can drop off quickly and sleep for 8 hours every night no probs! i find even when i have a drink at night i can sleep better.
Eat well Lynn and try some exercise or a hobby to take your mind off work.

wise advice Joe

I found that with an hour or so out to chill I went back to things with a fresh mind and avoided a few mistakes, nothing serious and easily sorted but errors only add to the stress of the day

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Lynn, I have been where you are now. I suffered from insomnia during my teens and then it disappeared when I went to uni. A few years ago it came back caused by stress and strain of work, job changes, wedding, house move, redundancy and so on. And by the middle of last year although I was sticking to a routine and going to bed on time, I still wasn't sleeping. I'd also ballooned by 2 stone from not eating properly and not exercising at all.

I had to change something because my health was going downhill (I'm only 30 :yikes🙂 and the lack of sleep was making me a horrible person. So I've started exercising - walking the dog, cycling, walking at lunch times and tried to change my diet.

It's worked a treat. when I go to bed I'm out like a light and sleep straight through to 6.45am

You just need to find something that's right for you.

 

[Pebbs]

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going for a session through a local forest trail works a treat,my wife can drop off quickly

Sorry Joe I had to re-read that a few times :lol::lol::lol: I had this vision of....No No lets not go there I'll get banned.

Pebbs

 

[hillhead]

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[user123]

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going for a session through a local forest trail works a treat,my wife can drop off quickly

Sorry Joe I had to re-read that a few times :lol::lol::lol: I had this vision of....No No lets not go there I'll get banned.

Pebbs

Me, too....

 

[hillhead]

Bad women on here with minds like that.......:ciappa:

 

[user123]

Bad women on here with minds like that.......:ciappa:

BAD BBBAAAADDDD women, monstrous in fact... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Pebbs]

I believe women can be worse than men. I have this vision....its a building site full of women. We would all start at 9.30 have our breakfast and nail varnish break at 10.00. In the summer we would hang off the scaffold looking at all the men passing by and make lurid comments. There would be a diet coke machine which would need refilling everyday at 12.00 by some fit bit of work. And instead of builders bums we would have builders cleveage. The works would never get finished because we would change our minds every five minutes on how we would do something, and if any man shouted at us, we would burst into tears...On really hot days all works would stop and we would be found sunbathing on the roof....just like I found some of you MEN doing the other day :lol:

Pebbs

 

[Fred]

I cant believe Im asking this, some mornings Im up at 4am Ive been really putting some hours in for the last few months and Im totally wiped out by 3pm. The phone calls are crazy and Im still getting work related calls till 10pm some nights, until I get to the stage when I cant even think straight. Yet I cant sleep.....and even at the weekends theres a little alarm clock that goes off in my head and Im off and running again.

Its like I cant close the door on work, it keeps churning in my head, get this quote out...put an application in for this, check the production...revise the works program the list goes on and on. Do the rest of you go through this?

Pebbs

Take care of yourself. Working too hard, waking up early, not sleeping = Depression, I've been there, try to access all work, put it context and be happy..........:8:

 

[Scott]

BAD BBBAAAADDDD women, monstrous in fact... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Maybe its those thoughts that are keeping you awake at night! 😛rrr:

I dont sleep well if im stressed, last night i was awake after dreaming my new roof was delivered with only 400mm head room! Stuff like that will keep me awake for hours.

3pm is the natural time for us to feel the need for a rest so dont feel bad about feeling tired then, its human nature. However you will probably feel more tired than most if your not catching enough z's.

Hope you get it sorted. Try the holiday! Maybe ill try one for you and let you know how it goes

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Lynn I felt the same, in the 80s/90s I had lads working for me. I know the stress and worry it can cause, the best advice I can give is as mentioned before. Get a hobby, I took up martial arts. I vented all my frustration on a kick/ punch bag. It changed my life. You take care.