I dont have insomnia but I seemed to manage to get away with a max of four hours or sometimes less some days.

You have my sympathy

ive been to bed-got up-been back again and got back up

Charmer.

Were you tossing and turning?

I'm bloody knackered but am in so much pain with my back and cant sleep

My sympathies to you all. I'm off to try and get some kip.

Hope you all feel better tomoz. Night

ive just downloaded 'zombieland' in 15mins

thats gotta be a download record..!

Aww Jeez tell me about it! I'm feckin' menopausal. Apart from the hot flushes,insommnia is another major symptom...sighs!

Have you taken anything?

i am rubbish at sleeping at night, i stay awake half the night then go back for a snooze when lil gyps goes off to school

It can be a bugger switching the mind off 

I always leave mine on 'standby'.

I find whiskey helps.

it gets boring after a bit-being awake all night 
and
karma ask the doc for 'zapain' tablets for your back, ive got sciatica, they help a bit

bored bored i am bored

I'll tell ya! 50 plus ladies...wide awake and active into the wee small hours. Then at about 10.00 am you crash and have to sleep,well I do..

I can do a couple of hours sleep then wake up and not feel tired, sign that I might be a good sleeper.

I also suffer from Tinnitus so have the TV on low as back ground noise all night.

i bet youre a laugh to go to the pub with..

I've always been a night person, early mornings don't interest me, but for some time my nights have been getting later and later, so I'm almost an earlier morning person than some AM people are lol.

Blizzie. love your comment about being on Standby, totally relate lol

I've had sleep problems since I was a child, mainly because my mum used to keep me up until the early hours of the morning when my Dad (who I did love) would roll in from the pub & bash her, she thought if I was there he wouldn't, but he did.

I totally empathise as I had that problem for several months and whenever there was no background noise, like when trying to fall asleep, the high pitched ringing in the ear was so frustrating to listen to. At the time I was experiencing it I did some research online and was staggered by the  apparently tens of thousands of people who had to live with the same thing. I only get it very very occasionally now, I'm just grateful I don't have it every day like I used to.

Essex.

Of Course! I still function etc...

Dear EA, I know from my own experiences and that of many others I've come to know over the years, whether online or off, that our childhood experiences and memories can play a major part in our adult life. Finding resolution/ healing/forgiveness/counselling or whatever each person needs is a personal journey that I know some have the determination to make and others cannot get beyond the fear or confrontation. (((((((((Hugs))))))))) for you

Alas with tinnitus,there is no cure.You have to manage it,the tiny fine hairs in your auditory canal,don't function as well as they should..As I stated  low distracting noise,not music, works best  for me.I did have my hearing etc checked out at the Auditory clinic at the hospital.My range was unusual in that it was low noise ,that I couldn't pick up.Most tinnitus sufferers react to high pitch tones...ah well.

Thanks Yellow & Blizzie, I loved them both, they loved each other to destruction, my oldest Son is 28, I really should get over it, they are both dead, sometimes in the wee small hours memories rear up. Yellow I'm sorry they nicked your 'Title' I will always think of you as 'The Gentle Duchess'

She is indeed.

Unlike our titles, which were both lies, eh?

Essex, I can't imagine what it would be like dealing with that, as a child. My mum and dad had blazing rows, but never anything like that.

Blizzie you naughty girl, are you saying I was not a ' Hip Swinging Floosie' I'm In the process of trying to grow some hips.

I didn't say the Floosie bit was a lie!

ive just put it onto disk-how bloody quick was that!

so im going to watch it

inna bit

EA   It's good that you loved both parents because you felt no judgement towards either even though the circumstances of their life together had an effect on your life, ((((hug))))) Through circumstances I've come across many both online and off who have either hatred or fear (if one or both are still alive) of their parents. The ones I've come to know are some of the kindest, gentlest and most giving of people I've come across, there's nothing they wouldn't do to help another, it's like they would do anything to help someone else but have such difficulty in helping themselves to lead a happy and fulfilling life because they find it far too painful to address their past - which I do know is horrendous in many cases.

Yes EA like others I've lost my title which you so kindly suggested to Admin for me  but I thank you for your kind thought, take care, God Bless and I truly hope you can find a way of healing the past - if you ever feel the need to   xxxxx

no im not..!

great pic but they all sound like theyre talking in a biscuit tin

now im bored again

Hi Blizz, yep I'm on Tramadol, have taken the maximum today. Cant take owt else cos I'm on Tamoxifen aswell. I'm so tired but cant get any respite from the pain. I've got a prolapsed disc that's just flared up majorly in the last couple of weeks. Was on the mend on Friday but it went again yesterday. I bloody hate backs. I want a new one

Oh and I want a new pelvis too. And new legs.

So do I, mines been gone for 8 weeks now, I didn't pick anything up, I'm not overweight, I don't carry things, ever since I had my youngest son who is 19, it just goes, I'm wearing a magnet bracelet on my ankle because some tosser on a TV shopping channel told me it would help.

So do I Karma.

K

*Virtually arranges hot water bottles, blankets, pillows around you*

* A nice chap to rub the voltarol gel in*

*Some choons...and erm..another chap to check the how water bottles are working...oh, he is nekkid sporting a handbag pour vous*

(take care lady xx)

WERD!

That's interesting you've had probs since your pregnancy EA, I'm the same. Cos my son was so huge when he was in my tum and all your muscles/tendons relax (or summat?) it can weaken everything. I slipped the disc a few years ago and have never been right since. I want a pelvis like Elvis, a back like Madonna and a good shot of morphine!