A few months before I was diagnosed with Invasive Breast Cancer, I was having bad nights sleep and night sweats.

Before that my sleep had been quite good, bearing in mind I suffer with hypnic headaches and a chronic migraine sufferer.

I initially put the night sweats down to possible peri menopausal symptoms as I am 46 - but since surgery the night sweats have ended but the sleep......

Why?????

I used to nap during the day pre cancer and still get a decent night sleep, but not now. can't even get any sleep during the day and at night I am lucky if I get 4 hours and that is staggered. It seems that this is a definite trend on here where people say about bad sleep. I was recommended by my mental health nurse to try Phenergen at night - take it for two to three nights and then have a break, as this should help me get back into a sleep routine, the nights I don't take it I just dread as I know I am not going to sleep well if at all, some nights when I do take it they are not working brilliantly.

I was just curious I guess as to how many other people do suffer with this bad sleep and how long it has been going on for them.... and what they feel is causing it, fear / anxiety / medication / bad luck..