Am Not Coping

It makes it harder to get motivated too @Snowie as I am doing everything I can to get through those couple of hours while it is still dark and then feel tired and less able to do things for the rest of the morning. By the afternoon I want to sleep again if I haven't already fallen asleep again in the morning - we need to get the meds and sleep issues right before I even considering going back to work in any capacity otherwise I fear what effect it will have on me at night time.

Can understand that need @Zoe7 to be able to get through the day without sleeping. I have spoken to my pdoc about the same thing with my tiredness and work.

Hopefully your pdoc has some answers for you on Wednesday.

I suspect she will want me to stay at the present dose for a bit longer to see if it levels out at all @Snowie - I am not so much concerned about the waking up early - I can take my night meds a bit later to try to get that right but that also means I am in the same sitaution I have been in previously when the nights get a lot harder to deal with ...that fine line again that we both know is hard to achieve the right balance. I am not sleeping as long during the day when I do need to sleep so that is an improvement but I need to be able to get through the day without sleeping at all

@Zoe7getting through the day without sleeping would be a must if you are thinking about returning to work. I don't think it would be good if you fell asleep in class whilst teaching the kids!!

Hoping that fine line can be found sooner rather then later

I did fall asleep in class one year @Snowie - it was when I first got Toby and was up nearly all night making sure he was ok and taking him out to the toilet every few hours. I couldn't keep my eyes open in class. It was just as bad as having constant nightmares and being woken up in the middle of the night - there were many years of nights like those The kids just went on with their work and woke me up after about 10 minutes - just lucky I had such a good group of kids - I don't think many of them even knew I was asleep lol - I did have Toby in the classroom with us so everyone knew they had to be quiet if I was going to keep bringing him! Lucky I didn't snore hahaha

That is a very beautiful story and A testament to good kids.

@Zoe7

The funniest thing about that story @Appleblossom is that I had what some considered the 'naughtiest' kids in my class but I found them absolutely adorable and loved every one of them

Hehe @Zoe7, you just made me laugh. Luckily you did have some good kids in the class.

Where I used to teach, if I ever feel asleep, I'd hate to think what the kids would do. Probably be a fight or would just walk out and go home

I always had some of the hardest kids to deal with - it was thought that I could handle them but it got a bit much when you have to 'handle' so many in one class - separately they were all easy but put them all together and it was really difficult - some of the other teachers had it so much easier but I think having so many of those kids in one class actually brought them all together more - some even became friends @Snowie @Appleblossom

Kids are strange creatures @Zoe7!

Ok this is as close as I could find to a laughing one!!