Its now been 9 days since the last attack of this years cycles of CH.

Im having alot of shadows witch is normal in the aftermath, but the thing that is new is that my eyelid is vibrating after every shadow (I know there is a English word for it but couldnt find it). This has never happened to me before, and i find it very irritating.

Im also waking up every night around 3-4am dreaming/thinking im under attack again, just to find myself CH-free and very awake. This is also new to me.
The fear that the beast will return is haunting my dreams, making my workday a living hell cause the lack of sleep...

Its not that im afraid the attacks will begin all over again at this time. ive had CH for 5 years now so i know what time of year it strikes.

During the day im not really thinking about it, cause im used to the shadows (they come 5-6 times a day in about a month after the last attack).
But cant really control what my mind is doing during my sleep.
Im thinking about getting some sleeping pills to get a whole night sleep during this weekend.

I got my days full atm with work and a daughter (1 1/2 years), and i can promise you that she does NOT agree to relax/nap during the afternoons 

Im very soon to enter a zombie stage if im not getting sleep soon.

I get the eye twitching before a cycle starts.  It is very annoying but it also is an indication to me that it is time to start my meds!

PF wishes,

Jeannie

Angela,

I can't remember who I got this from but I know it was someone here.   I have been taking Benadryl at night to help me sleep. 

PF wishes,

Jeannie

Thank you Jeannie.  Ever since I started my CH cycle, I have not been able to sleep the whole night through.  I nip the nocternal CH with Mel, but I still wake up very easily through out the night.  I will give Benadryl a try.

Mucho thank you!

Angela

Mothx wrote on Dec 14^th, 2009 at 9:06am:


I seem to wake up and then get a hard shadow. To me that's time to get dressed...again... and go get 02 started. The faster I go, the shorter the Ch lasts. If I get lazy, I take more hit and harder for it.

Often times i can't fall back to sleep, or if i do I don't sleep well. I am not sure if feel like I am not sleeping when I am or not.

During my cycle I tend to dream in color vividly, and out of cycle i would say I don't dream at all.

As to the beast, I find what ever pattern it does set up will change. It makes for a nice little surprize.

One cycle began with getting hit around dinner time or close after, with other hits later in the evening.. I got used to that and was able to get 02 with ease, so the beast moved the time to much later in night.

This cycle has been after mid night, and so I stay up till around 2AM, sometimes 4 AM. This is in the attempt to be awake and more alert, so I can get 02 faster.

At this point I am getting beat down from lack of sleep, and confused about decision making in day time work. Just the way it is. It makes diagnositics much harder to think about.

Yes to the eye twitches.  It can get irritating after awhile.