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I Can't Sleep Tonight As I'm Anxious To See My HPT Result Tomorrow..

by Chaithu
(Sweden)

I usually have sleeping issues. It started with my husband snores every night. I help myself with ear plugs, don't leave them even if my ears become painful because of whole night blocking. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of night and can't sleep, my mind continuously think of something mostly negative thoughts, it takes a number of hours to go into sleep again somewhere around morning time. I wake up feeling exhausted.


This night I'm very anxious as I am waiting to take HPT tomorrow and find out if I'm pregnant. It's been hard for me to get pregnant and we took help of assisted reproduction techniques. I desperately want to conceive. God has already decided, but i don't know his decision until tomorrow.

I want to sleep and forget all these for a while but it seems to be impossible. I slept for around 2hrs and woke up with a dream regarding my HPT, and I'm awake for 3hrs now, don't know when I'm getting sleep. I'm trying to be positive about tomorrow, but i really have no idea how I take it if it is negative. If i take the test now during night then its even more difficult to sleep. God bless me!

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Oct 26, 2014
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by: Kevin

Thank you for sharing your story Chaithu. Snoring really can take its toll on a bed partner. Have you looked into CPAP machines or some other form of snoring reduction for your husband? Dr. Dement likes to joke that a CPAP machine is really 2 for the price of 1, because both partners sleep better with it.

I wish you all the best with your pregnancy goals. Feel free to update your page here in the comments with any updates to your story.

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