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 .