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> From: FHargr3092(AT)aol.com
> To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: sleep
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 1997 7:33 AM
>
> Sharon K,
>
> Hi, Jan here.
>
> I am doing much the same. I can't seem to
> sleep the whole night to save my soul! Some
> nights I lay for hours hoping I will go back to
> sleep only to toss and turn and have wild
> dreamlike thoughts--if I'm asleep, it is not a
> restful event!!! I've always been a morning
> person and now I am finally sleeping but it is
> actually time to be up and moving. I don't know
> what I'd do if I were still working. I've read that
> you shouldn't just lay in bed when you can't sleep
> but to get up and read or something until you are
> really sleepy but I keep thinking I'll sleep soon and
> don't follow that advice.
>
> Now, is this part of tm as you asked or is it a mild
> depression brought on by the disease? I've had a
> dr say he thought that I might be mildly depressed
> and he wanted to give me a anti-depressant but to
> date I've just been using St. John's Wort and have not
> been on it long enough (he said 4-6 weeks) to see
> much improvement. I will admit the sleepness seems
> to happen off and on---I'll get a week of good sleep and
> then the sleepness comes back.
>
> I hope that you improve. I wonder what seems to make
> a good week and then again a bad one but have not been
> able to place a finger on any particular clue. I do know that
> I can get too tired and then I don't sleep well but that hasn't
> been the case lately, so--------? Let me know if you get a
> clue to this.
>
> Jan