Sleepless mights

Hello Peter,

Glad your treatment is going well. How many days are you on the steroids? My husband wakes up early while on the pump because he has to take steroid tablets too. His sleep routine has changed since treatment and he does tend to wake up a few times during the night. He goes back to bed in the afternoon to rest, but rarely falls asleep. 

No advice to offer, really. On the worst nights when he can't get back to sleep, he just gets up, has a cup of tea and reads for a bit. This helps sometimes.

Welcome to the world of a menopausal woman lol and now one with OC ! I’ve had this problem for many years wake about 2am go back to sleep about 5am and husband is up at 6am was hoping chemo would make me sleep and being attached to a food pump does no help ! but no still the same ! Have tried pillow spray foot rub everything  apart from taking nightol which I don’t want to do with chemo ! Hope someone has a solution!! 

tricia x

Hi and thanks yeah get your story as my partner is menopausal too so hopefully I can get something to help us both ... I'll let you kniw 

Hi, my husband also suffered from sleepless nights, he would just get up and go to his modelling shed for the night. The doctor had prescribed various sleeping tablets to try, sometimes they would work, or he would sleep every other night. He has been exhausted by all of this. 

I feel that initially, he had so much going around in his head and could not switch off. This seemed to be the case all of the way through treatment.

We were told beginning of Dec that treatment would stop and nothing more they can do, except keep him pain free, he then had a few more sleepless nights. 

He has since stopped taking the sleeping  medication, only on his normal medication and fentanyl patches plus morphine now.

Just recently he has slept better, perhaps, because he has accepted what life has thrown at him, and being able to help sort out all of the things I would have to do on my own, For his own peace of mind he visited the undertaker and has told them what he wants etc.

He also listens to calming music at night, via ear buds.

 I hope that your own sleep pattern improves as it truly can be a vicious circle. Take care