Sleep who needs it

[bricky7264]

Just wondering if anyone else suffers lack of sleep while sorting out your iva/ debt solution
Has you prob can tell from my username I'm a bricklayer [:D]
I've never had problem sleeping till my debts got me sinking till I'm neck deep in quicksand
It's making me stressed and at work I can't remember silly measurement s etc were at one time it was second nature to sort things out in head do maths in head now it's got to point use calculator on phone for easy things
Has anyone else had this and how you cope

And if wake up at silly o clock I check this forum to see what's been said etc
In the past I'd have said sad git get a life but now I'm that sad git lol #128521;#128521;
Thanks to all that contribute on here it seems like got loads of friends to give support and advice to newbies like me

[Foggy]

People deal with and react to the stresses in different ways, but I am guessing lack of sleep is a common one most of us have suffered.

Once the IVA is up and running, apart from a few wobbles we all get, things will get easier, as long as you make sure that your allowances (and therefore payments) are comfortable right from the start. If you are lucky enough to be able to have money left in your account at the end of the month ...SAVE IT Having a little emergency cushion there certainly calms the nerves.

When I can't sleep (rare these days -- I could sleep 24 hours a day ... have done a few times ... but that's another story), I imagine I have won the lottery, work out the interest, and spend it in my mind. I am always asleep before I spend too much !!!!!!

[bricky7264]

hi foggy guess it is all things in head money bills iva etc not helping
il try lottery one tonight

[Shining]

Bricky I'm lucky if I manage 4 hours a night and I think Melanie Giles (IP) is not much better. I can't sleep just can't switch off ever. Wish I could.

Just yesterday I bought some Rescue Remedy (Night) to see if that helps as at the minute sleep is extremely lacking due to an op I'm going for on Thursday.

I hope that sleep returns to its normal pattern for you as the IVA progresses.

[bricky7264]

im about same with sleep lesley thats why i look on here and post
but with my job at times it takes it toll and come home shattered and still dont sleep thou till morning
hope op goes ok

[Shining]

Thank you Bricky.

I sometimes turn on the laptop and do some posting on here but more often now I watch rubbish TV and try and doze until morning on the sofa, not doing the electricity bill much good but it's helping me a bit.

[bricky7264]

i use phone to check on here at silly o clock ive tried reading not eating drinking after certain times
ive some diazapan for my back that i think take them to help sleep as they knock me out but then might struggle in morning at work lol

[Shining]

I've only ever taken a sleeping tablet once and won't do it again, it left me like a zombie the next day (and believe me I don't need much help to achieve that most days). I went to work typed a whole email in the subject line and sent it to a colleague at the main campus.

Nobody has ever mentioned it and I didn't realise for several days!

[Foggy]

LOL @ Lesley. I have to be very careful with pills as I react strangely ... most painkillers make me throw up rather violently. A whiel ago the doc tried me on a low dose anti-depressant which is used for pain relief and I was literally unconscious for three days !!!

[luluj]

Your not the only one ....as Lesley says there are a few of us that find ourselves on the forum at silly o'clock...even me now that my IVA has ended over two years ago...I still log on and respond at silly o'clock.

[Niobe]

I don't sleep much past 4am most days but I don't get up - the earliest I'm on the forum is about 6.30 when I get up for work. My phone is switched off before I go to bed.

My husband would kill me if I was on here throughout the night!

[luluj]

Mine doesn't know ...he's asleep ..I sit there on the phone or ipad and tap away - he is unaware of it !

[Niobe]

Mine would be - he'd kill me if I took my phone to bed and the laptop stays downstairs.

He'd know if I was on the computer during the night.

[Shining]

Mine would sleep through WW3 I watch iPlayer or something during the night now and have it on the bedside table but he wouldn't have a clue, I am fairly considerate though and do put headphones in so I'm not totally heartless.

My hubby just appreciates and supports my insomnia by being obliging with any how I can get to sleep.

[luluj]

Clearly not me tonight!!!!! Why o why am I not sleeping again !