Hi I have had CFS since last march which I know isn't that long when you read some of these other threads, I feeling like all my problems get worse and are all because of my sleeping… or lack of. I use to have 6 hours sleep I would wake up after that. Technically I am getting now, but I have to wake up with am alarm and I never feel refreshed. I feel sleepy all day but I don’t nap (as I have been told that is bad if you are trying to get a ‘normal’ sleep patent back). Then it is night time and I have to resort to sleeping tablets to get me to sleep. I know someone else with CFS and she just said just get up when you want. However I am going back to college soon which I am going to have to get up every day and work hard. I have already tried all of the methods that the doctor gave me!!!! Useless, I had warm milk I now write in a diary, I try and get up the same time every day, and the one I think is the silliest, getting out of bed if you haven’t fallen a sleep in 15 minutes then going back to bed went your tired, (never sure how that as to work when your always tired). I was just wondering if anyone else had the same problem, and if they had anything they do to help.
Thanks
Hi Sianod,
My sleep pattern is eratic so I can't off any tips!
But do have a look on Dr Sarha Myhills website, she has lots of info there & is one of the very few doctors who know what she is talking about regarding CFS.
She also has a book available with a section on sleep, hard copies of her book can be bought or downloaded for free from her site.
Good luck
Baz
PS
The link to her book can be found via this page, all the articles on here are well worth reading though.
Personally I would not take all the things said by Myhill as being accurate and that she is the only person who knows what they are taking about.It is interesting that she notes what doesn't work but not what does.
Antway from my perspective it is stress related and somewhere , up to three years or so prior to the onset there will have been some traumatic emotionally that is incident. Bad sleep patterns are also stress indicators, so are high anxiety levels. AS a practitoner that has seen clients with this condition I know that looking into analytical hypnotherapy might help you, but not suggestion therapy. Try and see a practitoner for a free chat and discuss it with them. Best of luck
I don’t feel stressed if I am then I am hiding it well from myself. At the moment the very little sleep I am getting very vivid dreams, so real they feel like my day to day life, and sometimes it is hard to remember if I did something or if I had a dream that I did it. In my dreams I am just doing normal things like washing my clothes, watching TV, having a conversation with someone. After having these dreams I feel like I have been awake, up about doing stuff all night, then I am over tired the next day. I just want to know if that happened to anyone else.
this dreadful illness is definitely not stressed based, of course that will be a factor in some people but not in others. Unfortunately many of the mainstream "specialists" come from a psychiatric background but it is now seen as a neurological illness. My daughter has been ill with ME since last April as well. She is 16 and was a happy girl doing well at school etc., no anxieties and nothng traumatic in her background. At the moment, she is unable to walk, and is pretty much bedbound and housebound. One thing that has helped her tremendously is melatonin, I am not saying it will suit everyone but she has gone from having very irregular sleep patterns and not being able to settle down at night to actually getting tired at bedtime. I presume you have looked at the main ME sites. Hope you feel better soon.