Cannot get to sleep!!

Night time tea and Melatonin - works a treat.

i was awakelast night till 3pm.. reson noisy neighbours . her screaming and shouting .boy shouting top of his voice...in the end shouted for goodness sake shut up am trying to sleep. SLAM goes the doors. had enough now ,reporting to council..

I use an app by Sound Oasis called Tinnitus Therapy Lite.. it’s free. I listen to ‘Cooling Fan’ at very low volume. My body immediately relaxes and the sound stops the mind thinking. I started using it for tinnitus, which has now gone. You can play it on continuous play or for periods of time of your choosing.
Like someone else here I also can use Phenergan for a few days.. it too gets my sleep back on track again. Deep breathing for some minutes helps too ( this is a mindfulness technique) as does shaking your hands and arms for about 5 minutes, which seems to release excess energy. This last method was something my ex’s grandmother used to do.. it’s an old remedy and it does work. Lots of daytime exercise ..walking,swimming etc works for some people Good luck!

I certainly wouldn't stay awake worrying about Brexit as there is nothing I can do about it.
If I wake in the night-which I do at times-it is about something I can do something about or working out how to do something.
I pick up my Kindle - read for half an hour or so & then go back to sleep.
Let Boris lose sleep if he wants & just get us out ASAP.

I registered with sleepio.com. It is a 6 week programme online that gives you something to do each week that teaches you how to relax, stop thoughts going round in your head etc. It’s quite hard logging on each week and going through everything but my sleep has improved so much. It’s worth giving it a try.

I'm a long-time insomniac. I know that there is very little that helps so most of the time I just accept it.

It IS rubbish when I have a long day at work the next day, but not a lot I can do about it. Last week I had to work a 14 hour day on 2 hours of sleep. At 25 it was doable. At 54, by 8.30pm even my legs weren't obeying my brains commands.

After trying lots of things I find that this is the best for me! www.doyogawithme.com/content/yoga-nidra-sleep

I'm also using phone, laptop and tablet mainly outside the bedroom, never at night, and just occasionally in the morning, but they all live outside the bedroom. Do try the yoga nidra!

I see from your post you've tried Nytol but have you tried Nytol one a night? I am lucky it really works for me but the other is hopeless. I also use lavender aromatherapy gel massaged into my chest area and this combo works for me. I hope something helps.

Someone said to me that if we can't get to sleep we over breathe!
Try to slow down your breathing, 3 seconds in, hold for 4 and breathe out for 5.
Do it a few times.I didn't think it worked but after a few minutes of finishing this,I drop off!

Since taking 1000mg Hemp Seed Oil capsules, one a day with our evening meal, we are both sleeping soundly. I also take magnesium Glycinate as well which is good for sleep and a host of other things. Both on Amazon and EBay.

OP - this could have been written about me, including the DH who falls asleep as soon as he closes his eyes! I lie in the dark and do my times tables in my head......often works!

Try Lush Sleepy cream. It does help, not a miracle cure though. Have you tried going to bed before your husband so that you may be asleep when he comes to bed. I have some bad nights, I think it is a woman thing. Don’t get stressed about it as it will make you worse. Good luck.

I did some mindfulness sessions run locally for 6 weeks. After being somewhat sceptic about this 'craze'. I'm no longer a sceptic. He taught us relaxation methods and my sleeping improved enormously. You can get guided sessions on you tube etc. It may take a while to get into it or find something that particularly suits you but give it a whirl, nothing to lose.

It is horrible. I've spent the past couple of years trying various sorts of remedies to get more sleep all to no avail. I take ages to drop off, then after an hour or two I wake up and then just doze til morning.
I frightened to stay at other people's houses or even in hotels because you can't get up and start making drinks, watch tv or flushing toilets. Also I feel lethargic in the daytime.

You are not going mad whywhywhy. It's probably the menopause to blame. I often get up in the night and read a bit, then back to bed with a hot wheat bag. My sister swears by three ginger biscuits just before going to bed. I think there is something to be said for carbs at bedtime. Last night I had three Ryvitas and had a really good night. I stay away from computer or TV as I think that makes me more awake.

I feel for you as I’m the opposite sleep like a log within mins of getting in, I don’t know whether you have tried relaxation music, waves, dolphins, soothing pan pipes music in background, my husband is a night worker he used to find it hard to sleep but we invested in Egyptian cotton sheets n duvet covers so soft so he drifts off quicker now, we were going to buy a Himalayan salt lamp but since did all this no problem sleeping so didn’t bother,

I’ve downloaded numerous chilled sounds from my past on Spotify and listen to them on low volume at night. A nostalgic trip down memory lane usually helps me enormously. Lionel, Barry White, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder etc ....

Sometimes we just get out of the routine of sleeping or falling asleep. As we get older it becomes more common. I have tried Nytol and Phenergan in the past particularly when I was stressed at work but they left me with a headache the next morning. Have you discussed this with your GP? There is medication such as Melatonin that can help and it’s not addictive

I hate to say it but HRT . I slept like a log when I was on it and had a specialist say yes it’s been said it improves sleep . I’m off it now 2 months and I’m up and only getting odd hours thu the night . I’m seriously thinking of going back on it . A good nights sleep makes you feel on top of the world! Exercise good too ? X

I have had problems sleeping in the past, a routine helps me. Go to bed at 10 with a hot black currant and read. Set the alarm so I always get up at same time regardless of how much sleep I had. It may not work for you, but it does for me.

I listen to Audible books to switch off.

Hi ya
I managed to get to sleep but wake up during the night ..lay there for a while then go down to sofa. Its particularly bad atm as I was made redudant in March and I have recently moved in with partner so adjusting. I am thinking if listening to meditation..hopefully one of us will get some sleep too ♡

Yes another bad sleeper here, once upon a time I slept the sleep of the dead, that all stopped around the time of the menopause. Symptoms include restlessness, mind racing and anxiety, all collude to keep us awake. I know I do sleep in a sketchy sort of way, husband tells me when he does one of his several trips to the loo in the night I'm asleep, actually I'm not always because I'm aware of him getting up, occasionally when he pads off to the bathroom I say "I'm awake" just to disprove his theories about my sleep pattern

I have a tiny iPod with headphones in a headband (the sort you see joggers with - but it is a "sleepband" with flat phones so you can lie on them comfortably) and I have on there a recording of the sea. They have obviously recorded it at night as there are no sounds of people at all - just the waves rolling in and the seabirds. And I also have one of birdsong recorded in a wood. Both these help me enormously when I cannot sleep. Very restful.

I've not been sleeping well lately. I had to have puss put to sleep last week which has preyed on my mind - as do other worries.

I try to visualise nice things - a carpet of bluebells beneath shady trees, the perfect cottage, what I'd do with a lottery win, Jeremy Ckarkson saying, 'Congratulations, you've won a million pounds!' And so on, but they keep me awake.