Posted on Aug 24, 2017
Do you have trouble sleeping or relaxing at the end of a long day?
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Are there techniques that help you relax?
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I wake up almost every night between 4 and 5am very rarely am I able to fall back asleep. I am so glad to hear from others who share the same issue.
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Write out your full name. Now write it in cursive. Underneath that write that once more but a little smaller.
Underneath that....a little smaller still.
Quickly your mind will focus on trying to complete the simple task and redirect your attention.
Close your eyes and begin mindfulness, thoughts or thinking. Start with a simple image like a roo. With a chair. What's it made of. What color. Is there a style? Is there a table, does it match? And do not have a single thought of judgement about any of it. Whatever you eventually imagine you'll then see in your thoughts, instead of working to create the image.
To help me sleep.....alphabet A to Z, naming a fruit. So apple, blueberry, cantaloupe, date, etc. You'll start to struggle thinking of fruits and eventually not worry about anything else but this insignificant thought and probably pass out trying to think of a fruit.
Underneath that....a little smaller still.
Quickly your mind will focus on trying to complete the simple task and redirect your attention.
Close your eyes and begin mindfulness, thoughts or thinking. Start with a simple image like a roo. With a chair. What's it made of. What color. Is there a style? Is there a table, does it match? And do not have a single thought of judgement about any of it. Whatever you eventually imagine you'll then see in your thoughts, instead of working to create the image.
To help me sleep.....alphabet A to Z, naming a fruit. So apple, blueberry, cantaloupe, date, etc. You'll start to struggle thinking of fruits and eventually not worry about anything else but this insignificant thought and probably pass out trying to think of a fruit.
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Pleasant thoughts help. I am a golfer. I pick one of my favorite golf courses and play each hole like a professional. Birdie, birdie, and usually fall asleep after a few holes. On the occasion I get to the
ninth hole, I just get up, have a cup of tea and read anything available for a few minutes and go back
to bed. Back to the first hole and it does not take long after that. Works every time.
SSGT Steve Piecuch
ninth hole, I just get up, have a cup of tea and read anything available for a few minutes and go back
to bed. Back to the first hole and it does not take long after that. Works every time.
SSGT Steve Piecuch
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I wake up and can't go back to sleep,Use a cpap it work's fine just can't sleep all the way through!
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I have a chronic cough that the VA has denied as service connected. I need a voice. Help.
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CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025
EENT MD does not have an answer? What meds are you using? A BP pill caused me to suffer from sinus drainage. MD denied it. A change of med was Survival!
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COL Herbert Grogan
Greetings. Is this chat room similar in purpose and scope to togetherweserved.com?
Anyway, as an 11B citizen soldier who was in uniform one weekend a month plus the annual 2-week maneuver, my primary civilian occupation was in the insurance industry behind a desk, as a full time computer programmer for 30 years and never coughed. But after I retired from the ARNG after 20 years, the USAR received my records and put me on orders to support the Y2K project from St. Louis. From there my country called again to support the stability mission in Bosnia, where I began to cough. But I could not identify a trigger for the cough, so it festered.
After 13 months in Bosnia, I returned home for a few months until Sept 11, 2001 and reported to the Pentagon’s sub basement where the air was not healthy. I coughed. From there I deployed to Kuwait and experienced SCUD missile attacks, sand storms and breathed the air during burn barrel tasks. I coughed and headed north to Baghdad. The doctors all provided cough drops with no success.
I returned to Iraq in 2005 with the cough worsening and now I find myself on the floor with no memory how I got there. Docs now say I cough so hard, blood stops circulation to the brain. No remedy. A few times while driving, my wife had to grab the steering wheel due to my lack of ability to see the traffic. She is now the main driver. How do we go about convincing the V.A. that this aggravating cough is service connected. Also, could it be a 35 year delay from my tour of duty in Vietnam?
I never shared this cough history like this before. It was very therapeutic. So maybe I just need to sit down and emphasize these points with a V.A. administrator again and again. Your thoughts?
Anyway, as an 11B citizen soldier who was in uniform one weekend a month plus the annual 2-week maneuver, my primary civilian occupation was in the insurance industry behind a desk, as a full time computer programmer for 30 years and never coughed. But after I retired from the ARNG after 20 years, the USAR received my records and put me on orders to support the Y2K project from St. Louis. From there my country called again to support the stability mission in Bosnia, where I began to cough. But I could not identify a trigger for the cough, so it festered.
After 13 months in Bosnia, I returned home for a few months until Sept 11, 2001 and reported to the Pentagon’s sub basement where the air was not healthy. I coughed. From there I deployed to Kuwait and experienced SCUD missile attacks, sand storms and breathed the air during burn barrel tasks. I coughed and headed north to Baghdad. The doctors all provided cough drops with no success.
I returned to Iraq in 2005 with the cough worsening and now I find myself on the floor with no memory how I got there. Docs now say I cough so hard, blood stops circulation to the brain. No remedy. A few times while driving, my wife had to grab the steering wheel due to my lack of ability to see the traffic. She is now the main driver. How do we go about convincing the V.A. that this aggravating cough is service connected. Also, could it be a 35 year delay from my tour of duty in Vietnam?
I never shared this cough history like this before. It was very therapeutic. So maybe I just need to sit down and emphasize these points with a V.A. administrator again and again. Your thoughts?
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I have had trouble sleeping for over 40 years .I wake up 2 3 4 in the morning and can not go back to sleep. I probably get 4 luck maybe 5 hours sleep slot of times less
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Here I am, awake when I should be sleeping. But, you asked... so here I am...
(Yeah, the answer is yes to both questions.)
(Yeah, the answer is yes to both questions.)
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