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Husband has terrible insomnia

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eddiecat78 Thu 27-Jul-23 10:30:57

My GP has signed me up to Sleep Station which is a 6-8 week online course to combat insomnia. It is a commercial course that you can buy yourself but some surgeries offer it free on the NHS . It is daunting as the main advice is to go to bed later and get up earlier (put very simply) in the initial stages and I was very sceptical but I'm currently in my third week and have gone from only sleeping an hour or two, to 5 hours last night. If you Google Sleep Station reviews you will see that Trust Pilot has lots of positive reviews for it. Good luck!

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Philippa60 Thu 27-Jul-23 10:16:33

Hi wise Gransnet friends
I wonder if anyone has advice for me?
My DH (aged 71) suffers from really bad insomnia.
He also has (late-diagnosed) ADHD, and suffers from depression and anxiety.
He is on medication only for the depression and I think that medication might be part of the problem, but coming off it is not recommended as he then slips back into bad depression.
Right now he is really troubled by not sleeping (especially as I sleep really well and it must be very frustrating for him).
Our GP gave him a short course of sleeping pills which do help, but without them he simply doesn't sleep.
I have recommended all the usual things to him (he mostly follows my advice but not always!) for example: reduce caffeine, especially in the afternoon/evening, exercise more, less screen time....
Not sure what else to suggest and would love to hear from anyone on here who has any ideas.
TIA

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