Poolie, I get up at around 6.30am every day and I'm always knackered. I try to go to bed later so I get a decent sleep, but I sleep only for a few hours at a time...even worse when I have a drink...I've tried everything and the Doctor won't help....I'm physically shattered....

About 6 hours is a good night for me...I'd like more but it rarely happens...though last night I kept dropping off and missed the end of both part one and part two of Ghost Whisperer and dropped off somewhere in the middle of the Real Housewives of New Jersey then woke up for the end.

This is what I do, fall asleep with the tv on but when I switch it off I lay awake for hours.

I'm usually in bed between 1 and 2 am then back up around 6-30. Have me brekkie then sometimes go back to bed for a nap afterwards for a little while....

My lack of sleep is probabaly the reason why I come across as a grumpy old man who slates zelebs, honestly I am a decent bloke, you wanna see me at the weekend when I don't have to be at work.

Same here, though I even wake early at the Weekend!!!! What i'd do to sleep like the BF, his head hits the pillow and that's it for a good 8 hours

i would just be happy with a couple of unbroken hours sleep, which i havent had since i got my puppy 2 weeks ago

normally, i go to bed at about 2am and get up at 7am - so 5 hours suits me

I can go weeks on 5hrs a night or less... and then it all catches up with me and I end up like a zombie for week, sleeping 12 hours or more.... and then the cycle starts again.

It initially started when I was working and studying, so just didn't have time to have a nice regular 8hr per night.   Now its usually cos husband snores.... or cos I don't go to bed when I should.

God I need loads of sleep. I go to bed around half eleven and get up around 8 (or when daughter wakes up - never before 8 though!!!!)

I was like that when my kids were little though Arwen!    It was later on that my bad sleeping habits developed.   Another reason was I used to crave time when the house was quiet (to study in peace).... and very very early morning was the best time for that.

I tend to slumber than sleep these days but I can't sleep if the TV isn't on with a favourite comedy DVD, when I do feel tired I can just about switch the telly off and go straight to sleep.Usually 6 hours these days, as I'm getting older - I used to like 8-10.

I love sleeping but I try my hardest not to sleep when I'm not supposed to by that I mean I don't take naps, that just makes me worse, I would rather struggle through the day and get to bed at my usual night sleeptime, by the way I've just beeen googling mattress shops in Nottingham I reckoon a new mattress would help me sleep better, my there's abig difference in prices, if I pay more will I get a better mattress, I've never had to buy a new bed or mattress before. I heard the council will take my old mattress away for me.

Getting a new mattress was life changing for me.    We'd bought a new bed (a pine slated one) which came with a wafer thin piece of material they jokingly called a mattress.

We kept meaning to replace it, but didn't get round to it, then we couldn't afford to.   All the time I was getting worse and worse back ache, sleeping less... feeling crap.

My parents in the end offered us the mattress from their spare room.   Its a lovely pocket sprung job.... took three of us to get up the stairs.   Whereas I was able to carry the old one rolled up  under my arm and fold it into the back of the car to take to the tip.

Getting that mattress made the world of difference to my health & quality of life.

Now if I could just find a solution to my husbands snoring....

The old mattress could have been just right for that job

LOL!

I had to laugh... even the blokes that worked down the tip were taking the pish out of our wafer thin mattress!

6 hours is a lie in for me, on average 4-5 hours and normally waken in between. Lats night I watched tv until 2.30 and was up at 6.45. The older you get the worse it seems to be

6 - 7 hours sleep but I suffer with bad insomnia which makes it difficult to sleep properly at night, so I nap during the day if possible

If I was able to sleep as long as I wanted, I'd go for 10 hours a night. You can imagine what state I'm in today, having only had 3 hours last night.

You'll get that space cadet feeling later.... 

I quite like it when I get like that, though its not a good idea for me to post on here sleep deprived & fuelled on lager 

I find the spare room with the door slammed firmly shut helps Alternatively, as a final resort, a pillow, over HIS head!

That was the end conclusion reached when I blogged about it....

Mr Ditty's Snoring Blog

Though the pillow over the head, tennis balls up the nose, and baseball bat all over solutions were all discussed!

Ditty I've read it and mine is exactly the same...honestly, within seconds of his head hitting the pillow it starts, it doesn't matter if he's lay on his front, back or sat in the chair

He also does the 'death gurgle' (you know what I mean), where he sounds like he is choking for a few seconds I try and wake him but it's almost impossible, even worse once I let it start winding me up as it seems to get louder and louder.........

What astounds e is that it must take so much energy to snore like that in his sleep, it's a wonder he has any energy left the next day. If I snored like that I'd wake up even more knackered than when I went to bed....

...for that reason, if I have a busy day at work the next day i won't stay at his I'm dreading us booking a holiday next year, imagine him on the beach falling to sleep on a sun lounger... Maybe I'll do a City Break!

Its a bugger... but once the cycle of 'anger' has started... I know its gonna be one of those nights!


& as for him falling asleep on a lounger on the beach... and starting to snore!  Oh that made me giggle!

You should just put a ruffle around his neck, and sell tickets!   Live Walrus show!

I can empathise, Ditty and DID - my OH is a terrible snorer - and could sleep on a tightrope, for 10-12 hours a night. Grrrrrrrr!!

And sometimes he has the nerve to exclaim in the evening - "Oh I'm tired!!"
My reply is always "YOU'RE tired?" And then a few expletives.



The things we have to put up with!!

ROFL I did read that The Circus of Horrors is auditioning for a freak in Blackpool, not far from us, he could travel home from work every night!!

Poolie - you do get what you pay for re matresses.
Memory foam if you can afford it is wonderful - you'll wonder how you ever lay on anything else!!
We just have a memory foam mattress topper which is much much cheaper - goes on present mattress, but does make a difference.
My dream is to own a proper memory foam one. Bliss.
Won't stop the snoring though.

One way to empty the Beach I guess, Tsunami alert!!! Nope, just my OH snoring

And... I have a memory foam pillow!  It took alot of getting used to.... at first I would put another pillow ontop, cos it felt like I was lying out on a medical couch or something with just the mem foam pillow.

But... now it is the only way for me.   No more neck ache... a reduction in headaches too!

Nice to know other OH's are as bad as mine at snoring, he is off work today and was watching a film on C4, but is now asleep and snoring and the dog is just sitting watching him.  I've started a new game, see how many roast peanuts I can throw in his open mouth!!

or... pitch your loungers behind some under dressed germans.... the snoring sound would go well with the view when they do their straight leg bend down to pick something up thingy!

God... the sights that burned my retina's in Egypt!!

That reminds me of being in Ibiza about 15 years ago. My friend and I were lay on the sand talking, this German fella behind us stood up, turned round and bent over to pick his towel up...he was wearing a string, crochet thong, with an aqua tube hanging off it Last turkey in the shop anyone!!!!

ello Babe

Latest one for my hubby on an evening... is he will have his laptop on the arm of the sofa.... and actually fall asleep with his finger on the mouse pad... its like one minute he is surfin the net... the next second his head bobs down and he is snoring!

Bizarre it is!

A what???  as in a pool inflatable?   Did this tube have a function?

Oh how funny!!!

We have been behind similar types in Fuertaventura as well... we found the decent beach (follow the germans)... but were unaware it was actually a nudist beach.  Til the couple in front of us whipped it all off (they were in their 60's.... and were on the larger side of tubby).... both of them then proceeded to oil up..... and of course there was no bending of the knees to put oil on the ankles... ooooh no!  

Full visuals .... scarred for life!!

Hilarious Ditty, there are some things the naked eye should never have to see

The aqua tube is about the size of the inside of a loo roll, but thinner, it screws together in the middle and is water tight....thus enabling you to hand it round your thong and keep your money dry at the same time...

Ahhhhh... ok yeah, now i know what you mean.

DOH!  I read aqua to be the colour.... blonde moment or what!

Same principle as this, but round...

http://www.ronjonsurfshop.com/...spx?DepartmentId=732

Ron Jon Small Solid Dry Box

Knew that'd get your attention Blizzie

I need a good 6 hours at least!! I really struggle to function properly on anything less than that.
I suffered with insomnia for a few year and it was awful, I felt like a zombie all the time .

8 for me, i'm very good with my sleep so if I have a late night I hardly feel tired once i've had a couple of hours of sleep as I don't do lie-ins.