Sleep

[LarryG]

Has anyone ever had a good nights sleep doing dialysis. I wake up after a few hours sleep every night then toss and turn. Then I fall back asleep and wake up feeling the worse for it. I am not sure if it is from meds or just the fact my blood is screwed up. I don't want to start taking sleeping pills cause they tend to really drag me down. Just wondering how many people have problems with sleeping since ESRD.

[paul.karen]

Likely the majority of us dont sleep so well.

[Brightsky69]

Ugh!! When I was on dialysis sleep never came. And sleep was my hobby. Since I got my transplant....I sleep very well.
No sleep can drive you crazy.
I totally felt Heath Ledger's pain. I guess he had major trouble sleeping. I read somewhere that the people close to him said All he wanted to do was be able to sleep and couldn't do it.

[RightSide]

Disrupted sleep is common with kidney failure.  My neph prescribed Trazodone at bedtime to help me sleep.

It's important to stay awake during the dialysis session.  If you take a nap during dialysis, it will be that much harder to sleep that night.

[kimi_g89]

Since starting dialysis I've had trouble sleeping, but my doctor put me on ambien. It keeps me asleep but I have wierd dreams and it still takes me a long time to fall asleep, but its a relief not constantly waking up.

[LarryG]

I find it impossible to sleep in dialysis. I am in the early shift and I am needle up at about 5 thirty in the clinic. Everyone else falls asleep and I never heard of anyone not being allowed to sleep. I fell asleep once at dialysis and dreamed I was falling out a window and started screaming. Ther staff ran over and wondered what had happen. I was alittle embarrassed and have been afraid to nod off in fears of pulling out the connections.

[KICKSTART]

I have been taking Temazepam for several years now (and at a low dose) Im asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow , i get a good 8-10 hours sleep every night and wake up without that 'hung over' feeling , my head is clear