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Re: Success story


Posted by Jessie on December 29, 1998 at 04:53:46:

In Reply to: Re: Success story posted by judy on December 28, 1998 at 01:05:50:

Judy,
Unfortunately, people dropping out of the forum don't always mean they have found a cure, as we all know there really is no cure for insomnia, and until the doctors start putting as much emphasis on the problem as we do, we've all pretty much been left to our own devices for sleeping when we can. It could very well be that the reason for some people dropping out is that they thought they would find an answer here and didn't. I've been reading this forum for quite some time now, and as with Lori, there are a few success stories which we all love to hear. My insomnia has been going on for over 20 years now, and when I first found this forum I was pretty excited to find there were other people out there just like me, and every day I came in here I prayed I would find something that would help me as others said it helped them, however, as we're all as different as our fingerprints, something that may help one person, may not help another. I also found that trying something for the first time has a good chance of helping the first time, as I've tried just about all of them, as has alot of other people I've talked with, but unfortunately nothing ever lasts for long, and even the medications some of us are currently taking now will eventually quit working to the degree they did in the beginning. It's 4:00 am right now and I may have gotten 2 hours sleep the night before, but nothing last night, and I have to be at work at 7:00 am and work 10 hours until 5:30 this evening, and yes I do still read the forum every week in hopes of something new happening, but as there just aren't enough hours in the day for me, and I've found the frustration mounting lately from lack of sleep, I just don't do many posts anymore, but it's certainly not because I no longer need the help. A while ago I thought we were hopefully going to get something started and alot of our stories were going to go to the media, so I responded to Meg with my story, but to date I haven't heard anything. I would love to think that if followed through, this is something that just might make a difference. I certainly hope nothing I said here has offended anyone, right at the moment my frustration level seems to be a bit high. My day will probably go something like this; as I haven't slept for over 2 hours in the last two days I'll have a cup of coffee to get through most of the day, which I never drink because the caffeine drives me up the wall and makes me jittery, but it's the only thing that's going to give me that edge to keep going, then half way into the day, take a muscle relaxer as by then I will be so tense I may start taking it out on my co workers, not to mention how completely exhausted my body will be from no sleep and being tensed up, then I'll be tired until I quit at 5:30, however, as caffeine seems to work on me an exceptionally long time, there's a good possibility I'm not going to be looking at much sleep this evening either because my emotions by that time will be just a bit distraught. Gosh, I sure wish I had a success story I could tell, and maybe one day I will, but right now I've just got to take it one day at a time.

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