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SoccerMomma73    1,867

SoccerMomma73
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I see I'm not the only sleepless folk wandering around on here. Why are we all still up?!?!?!?

HW 312, pre-op (RNY) 255, current weight 202.4

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oldoneyoungagain    200

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I see I'm not the only sleepless folk wandering around on here. Why are we all still up?!?!?!?

HW 312, pre-op (RNY) 255, current weight 202.4

I don't get off work until 9 PM so I'm up until 2-3 sometimes 4 in the morning. Really don't have anything better to do and enjoy this forum. Congrats on your weight loss, you're doing terrific.

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ArmyOfMe    82

ArmyOfMe
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You are not alone. Even after WLS, my insomnia is just as bad. I feel tired all the time but cannot sleep to save my life. Been always like this, tho.

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deaddemmama    474

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You are not alone. Even after WLS' date=' my insomnia is just as bad. I feel tired all the time but cannot sleep to save my life. Been always like this, tho.[/quote']

Yup, I'm awake with y'all...I have a sleep maintenance disorder...been up since 2:30.

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marymcg62    23

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Wow I thought I was alone in this I stay up all night, & sleep 3or 4 hours at a time during the day. It's driving the hubby crazy, because he's alone during the day while I sleep. At night I go to bed with him till he falls asleep & then I get up & watch old movies & knit or do some other craft. Now I can jump on here &see who's up & about. Ok back to bed for some dad's see you in the early am hours. -_-

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Jeepchick42    193

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Does anyone take sleeping pills? Not prescription but just an over the counter. My sleep time is all screwed up and I'm starting a new job on Monday and need to be up at 6am. I haven't been going to bed until 2am. I'm two months out.

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SoccerMomma73    1,867

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I've had minimal relief with melatonin. I've got ambien but makes me sluggish the next morning so I try not to take em too often.

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Jeepchick42    193

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I've had minimal relief with melatonin. I've got ambien but makes me sluggish the next morning so I try not to take em too often.

Melatonin gives me horrible nightmares. And I agree with you with the ambien. I think I might take just one out of a two pack tonight and see how it goes.

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SoccerMomma73    1,867

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Melatonin gives me horrible nightmares. And I agree with you with the ambien. I think I might take just one out of a two pack tonight and see how it goes.

I take 1/2 when I do take it.

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deaddemmama    474

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I'm on a prescription sleeping aid, but since it's in pill form it isn't absorbed very well...perhaps you could try the new nyquil product that's made just for sleep. I believe it's in liquid form. I don't recall the name.

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LeticiaHuggins    177

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Does anyone take sleeping pills? Not prescription but just an over the counter. My sleep time is all screwed up and I'm starting a new job on Monday and need to be up at 6am. I haven't been going to bed until 2am. I'm two months out.

I take prescription BUT during the times I run out I do take unisome. It sucks most of the time but helps the other half. I do find benedryl works much much better.

~Leticia **HW: 259**PreOp: 216**SURG: 3/21/13 **Discharged @: 221** 4.5 mons post op. CW: 160.0 lbs. --- Only 10 lbs to my goal ---

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music1618    879

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Try valerian root. I warn you though it smells like dirty feet, but if you swallow it quickly it is ok. You can also find the non scented kind. Works a little better than melatonin. I have had insomnia for years and I rotate medication. Ambien, melatonin, and valerian root. They are on a mo they cycle and for the most part I sleep ok most nights.

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ajustice    484

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Had insomnia before but it's truly worse now. Have been taking Benadryl since surgery. Have been trying melatonin and not really any relief. The last few nights have been up til 2 am and struggling to make it thru the day. Guess going back to Benadryl

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Big Wojo    32

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I'm a 911 dispatcher and work third shift. I never sleep, but I found out taking a Xanax before I got to bed helps most of the time. I also have ambien which makes me feel dumb the next day, and malatonin which never works for me.

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deaddemmama    474

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I'm a 911 dispatcher and work third shift. I never sleep' date=' but I found out taking a Xanax before I got to bed helps most of the time. I also have ambien which makes me feel dumb the next day, and malatonin which never works for me.[/quote']

Xanax scares me due to the high potential for dependence. I use trazadone, but there are absorption issues since surgery. I was up at 1:00 am

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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