What keeps you awake at night?

4011 said:
Don't eat heavy meals after about six.
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+100 This is a biggie, especially as you get older. Trouble is tradition/folk set in their ways leads to some very old fashioned looks when you suggest cutting the big meal at 8pm.

In a similar vein I recently made the mistake of telling a family member complaining about their asthma that maybe a house full of cats was not a smart idea. I love animals, but why keep them if they make you sick.:confused:
 
I some times have nightmares about my horrible birthfather who i have not seen since i was a little boy. I also have nights mares about speeches or presentations that i gave in high school. In fact i had one of those last night

that is what keeps me up at night.
 
Smoke said:
When I quit smoking I used the patch and let me tell you it was like taking acid (don't ask how I know) before going to bed.

For the last two years I have had a job where I'm outside all day long and I walk around 7-8 miles a day. By bedtime I'm done I have no problem falling asleep
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Same with scopalomine -patches used for seasickness-give some WEIRD dreams (I use it for trips where we sleep on the boat for 3-4 days)
 
I had some vivid dreams too when I was using the nicotine patch to quit smoking earlier this year. Never did acid but had some really good dreams but not quite as vivid as Chandix caused a couple years ago.
Since I had this back surgery and now retired I find myself falling asleep in my recliner and waking to some TV show I might watch. It gets me ready for some sleep in my bed and have been sleeping in much later than the 0530 I always got up at while working.
I've made my life simpler now in the past couple years and sold some stuff I wasn't using much like boats and a sports car. I found having less to worry about lying in bed at night helped me to sleep too. Here it is coming up on fall and I don't need to worry about winterizing those toys and can look forward to hunting season instead. It all helps me sleep.
 
fat tom said:
That's me. Let us know if it works.
f.t.
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If you look closely at the screen when the Super Beta Prostate spots are running, when the guys are talking about how wonderfully they sleep when they take the stuff it says, in tiny, hard-to-read letters, "Results not typical."

I've long thought that when I kick the proverbial bucket they'll transplant my kidneys into a rhinoceros and my bladder into a ferret. But for several years I've been on tamsulosin, the generic for Flomax, prescribed by my doctor. I take it at bedtime and it really helps. I rarely go to the bathroom more than once a night, which at 75 ain't bad.

Seeing your doctor would be a very good idea if you haven't already.
 
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I occasionally dream that I started smoking again that wakes me up in a cold sweat
 
No problem dropping off to sleep. I take a medication to lower my blood pressure due to a TIA a few months ago. Dreams are fairly vivid...color, story line etc. I usually wake up at 3:30 and worry about how I'm going to handle dying. I'll get up, use the head and move to the living room...much larger room which seems to help. As many times as not, I'll fall back asleep.
 
the ringo kid said:
For me-its mostly the dopers who speed through the neighborhood at 3Am with their radios on top volume and bass at full blast. Other than that--the only thing keeping me up at night is from between 4-6 bladder trips to the restroom. Im thinking of trying that "free" bottle thay advertise--of Super Beta,
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Super Beta is a mixture of several herbs and the dose you take contains small amounts of each. The two main ones are Saw Palmetto and Pygeum. It's best to go to the herb store and buy a bottle of each.
Try both for a week, take them three times a day. It may work for you? No medicine is 100% on every body!

While you're at the herb store, pick up a bottle of Melatonin and take it an hour before bedtime.

You should be able to buy all three bottles for less than $20 and if it works for you.. that's a cheap price!
 
I got 3 cats. One likes to get under the covers and nibble my toes. One likes to lick my bald head. One (the BIG) one likes to curl up on top of me and go to sleep. When he gets on my chest I have trouble breathing. When he gets on my stomach I gotta get up and go to the bathroom.

Take yer pic. I usually get one or more of these every night.... :rolleyes:
 
Road Rat said:
Dang, thanks for all the inputs.

I'll stop being upset because I can't get 7 to 8 hours sleep straight!

I tried "sleeping pills" and felt terrible the next day.

So, when I wake up at night I turn on my TV - volume low and prop myself up on pillows..............before long I'm gone!!

I was always a very sound sleeper until I spent a week in the hospital in 2000 where the nurse(s) woke me every hour to "check my vitals".............haven't been a sound sleeper since!!

But I'm coming up on 76 in a couple of months so I should just be glad I'm still here to complain!!
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Here is a perfect solution for everybodies sleeping troubles. Watch a marathon of Suddenly Susan episodes.
 
1morethan8 said:
Super Beta is a mixture of several herbs and the dose you take contains small amounts of each. The two main ones are Saw Palmetto and Pygeum. It's best to go to the herb store and buy a bottle of each.
Try both for a week, take them three times a day. It may work for you? No medicine is 100% on every body!

While you're at the herb store, pick up a bottle of Melatonin and take it an hour before bedtime.

You should be able to buy all three bottles for less than $20 and if it works for you.. that's a cheap price!
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Thank you for the great advice--I have a great store I go to once in awhile and ill see what they have of these? Im game to trying anything non-medicated.
 
My wife snoring. She says I snore louder.But I think that's a lie....I've never heard myself snore!
 
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