Sleeping

I couldn't sleep after my colon resection so got a small prescription for sleeping pills. 

Took them three nights in a row and it really helped to get back into the pattern.

Hi,  so glad I read this because I’m in the same boat! Couldn’t sleep after the op back in February.. I’m on antidepressants now which I take in the evening they do help but I’m awake from 5.30 onwards just can’t shut down I just want my old pattern of sleep back and my old self I feel so depressed through the day it’s like I’ve lost the old me with this cancer and the treatment.. xx

Hi Cat, 

You will not believe how glad I was to see your reply.  I echo you 100%.  I am trying the sleeping tablets first for 7 days and I have only had 1 good night sleep.  The other night I literally stayed awake from the time I went to bed at 10.30pm until my husband got ready for work at 7.00am.  The doctor has suggested anti depressants which I was not keen on originally,  but I can feel myself slipping down that path.  I am so angry all the time and I just burst into tears at the slightest of things.  I to dream of having my old sleeping pattern back and my old self.  I tried to say to my husband that I feel the old me got left behind in the hospital and now this is the new me that is constantly unhappy.  I just feel so different to how I used to be, but I guess unless you have experienced this it can be hard to understand.  Thank you so much for replying and letting me I am not alone in feeling like this.

Hi, thanks for the reply hopefully things will eventually get back to normal... sending all my love xx