Has anyone else had trouble sleeping lately?

[Laffy Kat]

Last night I did not sleep A WINK. I finally stopped trying around 4:00 a.m. since I had to be at work at 6:00 a.m. I ended up having to work eleven hours on no sleep. So when I get to work I hear from probably three out of five patients AND several other employees that they had a hard time sleeping last night, too. It was a full moon and I've noticed in the past that I have a harder time sleeping during full moons, but anything else going on?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That sounds dreadful, my dear Laffy Kat!

I hope you can sleep tonight.

I seem to have trouble falling asleep, but once there, I'm usually OK. I do take a 3 mg. tablet of melatonin and it normally helps a lot. It's an over the counter medication.

Hope things get better for you!

[Laffy Kat]

2. I think I have some somewhere...

I'll try to find it, 'cuz I have a feeling it's going to happen tonight, too. I usually take a very small dose of alprazolam (Xanax) right before bedtime but ran out on Friday and forgot to get it refilled. Usually it doesn't bother me to skip a dose.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I hope you do have some.

I don't know where you are, but most pharmacies and grocery stores of any good size have them.

I usually take mine about an hour before I go to bed.

[ailsagirl]

4. I didn't sleep a wink last night either!!

No wonder I'm so spacey today. If it wasn't one thing, it was another. My cats making noise at frequent intervals didn't help, either.

I've heard that if you can't sleep to try reading, but I've always been afraid that reading would wake me up even more-- so I don't know what's best. "Tossing and turning" is the pits.

I'm hoping I'll be able to catch up tonight.

Good luck to you!!

[UTUSN]

5. Uh, *YES* & it's horrible!1 At 4 A.M. I said out loud, "This is *DISGUSTING*!1

[a la izquierda]

6. Last couple nights...

super vivid dreams too.

[ZombieHorde]

7. Yes, but only because my girlfriend

moved away very recently, and I got accustomed to sleeping with her.

[RebelOne]

8. Aways.

But I take an over-the-counter sleeping pill and a couple glasses of wine. That usually knocks me out.

[blogslut]

9. Yes, but

...it's because my mattress is shot. I'm to get a barely-used replacement mattress sometime near the end of this month. For now, it's all about strategic pillow placement and podcasts.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. I couldn't sleep because I had an abscessed tooth

But I've been making up for it since the antibiotics kicked in, now I'm having trouble staying awake...

[Laffy Kat]

17. Oh no! You getting it taken care of? nt

[Rhiannon12866]

20. I was out of town so it took awhile to find a dentist who would see me

Not to mention that it started on a Friday, so I had to endure the entire weekend. But the dentist I saw was extremely helpful, took X-Rays and made his recommendation for when I went home to my own dentist. But the most important thing was that he prescribed an antibiotic so the pain let up and my face no longer looks like I was concealing a golf ball in my jaw... Thanks!

[elleng]

11. Sorry about that!

Full Moon's today. but I understand it has strong effects. Took this a couple of hours ago. I'm going to bed NOW!

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[shenmue]

12. Me too

[Laffy Kat]

14. Here's wishing you good, good, sleep, shenmue.

I finally slept last night but still feel wrung out this morning.

[shenmue]

19. Zzzzz

[Laffy Kat]

13. Slept last night, thank god.

Still feel bad this morning, so I told boss I was going to be a couple of hours late today.

[Laffy Kat]

15. So summer solstice falling on the full moon.

I just read somewhere else here. IMO, that is doing something weird to us sensitive types.

[hobbit709]

16. Couple of hits off my vaporizer with some good bud, I'm asleep in 5 minutes.

[Laffy Kat]

18. I don't toke but tried some sort of canabis liquid.

It takes so long to kick in. Plus, the place I work still does unannounced testing, so I'm sort of, why bother?