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Old Style Insomnia help!

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  • Curry_Queen
    Curry_Queen Posts: 5,589 Forumite
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    You could help us find our sanity :p :rotfl:
    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
    ~
    It is that what you do, good or bad,
    will come back to you three times as strong!
  • foreverskint
    foreverskint Posts: 1,009 Forumite
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    i've lost my marbles...............................
    :rotfl:

    Thanks Pinkwinged, but i'm really searching for recipes.

    Just lost at poker though.:o ......not really moneysaving but heyho........
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    I'm not really sure why I'm thanking you two eejits.........but you made me laugh and someone somewhere told me that was good for sleep ;):D
  • Curry_Queen
    Curry_Queen Posts: 5,589 Forumite
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    Aye, laughter is good it is and I'll be toddling off shortly when I've downed me glass of good old Murphy's Irish stout :D ... thought it might help with the ZZzzzzz's you see ;)
    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
    ~
    It is that what you do, good or bad,
    will come back to you three times as strong!
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    Curry_Queen wrote:
    Aye, laughter is good it is and I'll be toddling off shortly when I've downed me glass of good old Murphy's Irish stout :D ... thought it might help with the ZZzzzzz's you see ;)

    Tempting as Murphy's Irish stout might be........I'm off all alcohol for lent.......so please any other ideas will be much appreciated.
  • Curry_Queen
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    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
    ~
    It is that what you do, good or bad,
    will come back to you three times as strong!
  • Becles
    Becles Posts: 13,184 Forumite
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    Radox SleepEasy bubble bath is fab. A hot soak in that, then straight to bed, and I'm out like a light!

    It's currently on BOGOF in Boots, Somerfield and I think in Asda.
    Here I go again on my own....
  • wigginsmum
    wigginsmum Posts: 4,150 Forumite
    Make sure your bedroom is the right temperature; I sleep badly when it's too hot in my room.

    Try to keep to roughly the same waking hour even at the weekend (which I'm notoriously bad at - sometimes I read till 6am at the weekend).

    If you're disturbed by noise, try earplugs.
    The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    Well, I have a couple - used to have the couldn't-sleep-blues myself - now the opposite is truer :o
    • Lavender and Hops are both traditional (stuffed into their own little pillows) means of inducing sleep
    • No stimulants before wind-down time; think about foods to avoid, caffine; smoking (even passive); TV's, Computers; alcohol - well done on giving up for Lent, BTW :T :T
    • Perhaps a romantic stroll down Royal Avenue with DH would not only wind you down from any daily stresses but free's the mind? Can be very relaxing.
    • Develop a routine! Humans are creatures of habit ;) A warm (not hot) bath, perhaps with a few drops lavender oil; some soothing music and a candle in the bathroom are a wonderful way to feel pampered and to wind down.
    • Make sure your bedroom has been well aired.
    • Reading helps me (but nothing too stimulating!!!)
    • Know *your* sleep needs/patterns - Churchill got by on only 4hrs a night - others need more. You need to know yours.
    • Remember, change comes with time and it won't happen overnight ;)
    Best of luck :):):)
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  • spalding
    spalding Posts: 925 Forumite
    Use to be the same mind racing when I tried to go to sleep now I have amug of camomile tea before bed and sleep much better now
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