debra.you would not be on permax would you?thats how it used to effect me.i changed to cabaser and no more nodding off.BOB STEVENS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Henderson-Setzer" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:04 AM Subject: Re: I'm becoming nocturnal! > Debra, > > Can I relate! I didn't marry an insomniac and my husband wakes up if I > get out of bed. What happens to me is that I hurt so bad I have to go to > bed and lye down. Then I wake during the night hurting so bad I have to get > up. > > Mornings are the best for me... though I would like the definition of > morning to change to say... 6 AM instead of 2, 2:30, 3:00 AM. Heck, for > that matter I would even go for 5 AM. > > I must give credit to the DBS though, I now get average 5.5 hours of > sleep a night instead of the 4 that I got prior to the surgery. > > I have found the different instant message programs to be the best > outlet.... there are many other PWP's up in the middle of the night... > everywhere. I even have a friend in Australia who is a caregiver who tells > me to go back to bed... she tells my husband she is the cyber sleep police > keeping an eye on all of us insomniac PWP's in America. > > I guess the way I have best dealt with the sleep issue is that I realize > when my body is tired enough it will sleep.... it does pretty much whatever > it wants to, whenever it wants to anyway... LOL... I don't worry about it > anymore. My husband is doing better when it comes to my up time.. I believe > he has worked his way up to being able to sleep about an hour after I get > out of bed. I have made a compromise... I try to stay in bed for 30-60 min. > after I am awake and he is up to an hour so that means he can get up to 2 > hours more sleep than me a night. Now can anyone help me convince him of > this arguement? LOL again! > > Sorry about this posting twice, the computer fired the first one off all by > it's lonesome mid sentence. > > Deborah > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn