Since me and my partner split I haven’t been able to sleep these past few days. I have thc gummies indica and then melatonin and I was wondering if taking both together help with sleep better than on their own?

I also have gabapentin I suppose.

My doctor went on vacation and didn’t refill my sleeping medications for me but I had a bottle of zolpidem 5mg pills from a few months back. I tried it for two nights and had a hard time falling asleep on it. When I did finally fall asleep I peed the bed. Not fun, so it was put aside and I was taken off of it.

I cannot sleep unless I’m medicated. I will lay there for hours and can hear everything and my mind races 100 mph with images, thoughts and memories. It’s torture

I took one pill last night and had a very shitty 4 hours of sleep. I just took another one tonight and I’m staring in my dark room waiting to get sleepy and it’s not coming. It’s making me frustrated.

I’d rather take this than Xanax but I can’t get this crap to work on me.

I am writing this in hopes to gain some advice for the sleeping issues I have been having which really is 2 issues. In June of this year I was diagnosed with Mild Obstructive sleep Apnea with an AHI of 12.8 events per hour. I was tested because I started to wake up randomly in the middle of night suddenly and i would start Choking / throwing up in my sleep. I was able to get a CPap machine starting in August and It has definitely been difficult to get used to. Since maybe I started using it, Ive started this weird thing where I wake up around the same time every night between 2am and 3am. I unconsciously sit up on the edge of my bed and sit up like that for over 1 hour sometimes 2. I will wake up in the sitting position wondering when I sat up and i wont remember how I got there. Or for example, I’ll slightly remember sitting up around 2:20am, and then all the sudden I’ll open my eyes and look at the time and its 3:50am. I do track my sleep via my Series 9 apple watch and typically during this time my watch says I am awake.
During the time I am sitting up on the side of the bed, I noticed that I am picking my skin unconsciously while i am sitting there. Ever since I was a kid, I have had a problem with biting my nails.. - i know its gross, I am trying to stop I just have a lot going on medically and I am constantly stressed. This was not my year.. SMH. Anyways, for a very long time now. I have been wearing press on nails on top of my natural nails to hide but also allow them to grow underneath without me biting them. During the time I spend sitting up I pull the nails that are glued on my natural nail complete off. I wake up with no fake nails and they are all on the floor in tiny pieces. I’m super embarrassed by my actual nails so I will then glue on a new one but if I end up sitting up again during the night then I just end up unconsciously pulling them off. It’s so frustrating. I’ve recently tried wearing bandaids and sleeping with a soft winter glove on but it didn’t work. I woke up sitting up with no gloves and no nail. I have tried taking melatonin, Sleep gummies, CBD Tinctures oil straight under my tongue or in my tea. Ive tried sleepy time tea and even magnesium spray (which was total BS btw), but nothing seems to help. The CBD oil worked for 1 night and never again after that. I also tried hydroxizine from my psychiatrist who prescribed it but it made me feel like a zombie for 2+ days. Still sitting up at night and extremely tired during the day when I took that medication. I would prefer something more natrual just becuase I am on alot of meds right now and am having alot of health issues. Acording to my watch my avarage sleep time this week is 5 hours and 1 minute. My monthly average this month was 5 hours and 23 mins. Last month was 5 hours 27 mins. I am exausted all the time especially at work, as i feel like i am falling asleep at my desk sometimes SMH. I feel like this is definitely affecting my personal life and the relationship with my boyfriend bc i am always cranky. The cpap machine is working to help me breath since i started with 12.8 events per night and now im down to 2 with the mask. Any advance on what I could do to stay asleep through the night? I saw something called bean dream which was natural hot chocolate powder made of Nano Hemp, Melatonin, L-Theanine, Magnesium, and Reish. I saw so many mixed reviews and was nervous to try it. I should also mention my stress level is at an all time high with my medical issues right now and I need to keep up with a better bed time routine. I’m working on it. Also to clarify, when I sit up in the night, I’m not sure if I’m actually sleeping during that time or if I’m awake, but my eyes are closed.
Any advice is greatly appreciated on how to stay asleep or not to sit up for hours unconsciously the night making myself exhausted during the day. And also how to not pull / pick my fake nails off because im going through fake nails like crazy and it’s getting expensive. TYIA

I know that it sounds ridiculous and it is but in her defense she knows nothing about insomnia and I am the only person in her life who suffers from it. She watched a few kdramas and read some stories where the main character was insomniac and was struggling so bad but as soon as they fell in love all their sleep problems seemed to disappear so she strongly believes that my 4 year long insomnia struggle can be cured if I fall in love. It's so ridiculous that I still don't know how to respond to it but she was so excited while telling me about it as if she found a cure for all my problems that I couldn't even be angry on how stupid she sounded.

I’m 34 and have dealt with nightmares and terrors all my life, but lately it’s been on overdrive. It started around the beginning of November. At night when I try to go to sleep, I get brain zaps every 5 minutes or so-I’ve timed them. I felt them before because of medication. I’m not through withdrawal or anything. Each one gets more and more intense, I lay there wondering if I’m having some sort of seizure or it’s just the brain zaps. I don’t remember the zaps making my muscles tense up and twitch. Because of them, I can’t sleep, and when I do actually pass out 12 hours later, I have the worst dreams. Each one is the same. I’m drowning and I can’t breathe, I can see the surface getting further away no matter how hard I’m trying to swim up. I’ve never had moments where I sleep talk/move. Now I am. I wake up covered in sweat, my body is shaking. My mouth is dry, my throat and chest hurt, like I’ve been gasping for air. I also started to somehow get tangled in my blanket, like wrapped around my head and body. This morning I woke myself up because I was kicking and hit the edge of the bed. I get 2 hours of sleep in portions if I’m lucky. I’m scared I’m going to hurt myself, I bit the inside of my lower lip, I noticed when I went to brush my teeth. Now I’m scared to even try to sleep. Nobody understands, so I feel alone. I’m not even sure how to tell my doctor. I don’t have a lot of money, so I know if she wants tests, I can’t afford them. I feel shaky and nauseous all the time, I’ve lost weight because I can’t eat without getting sick. I’ve been on the same medication for years and never had a problem. Viibryd, low dose of lithium, klonopin as needed, and ambien. I’m not even sure where I’m going with this post, just wanted to scream into the void.

Anyone tried Dayvigo and had a complete loss of appetite as a side effect? And also feeling very lethargic.

(I usually take Quetiapine 25mg (to 50 mg), Clonazepam 1mg to 1.5 mg and Zopiclone 7.5 mg. *My Zopiclone has been switched for Dayvigo

I lost the sleepy feeling. How have you managed to improve your hyperarousal and or cure it? My mind feels incredibly awake all night.

I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night often, making me feel tired during the day, but it just feels like my unconscious mind isn’t there? I used to always remember old memories every day, and my inner monologue would always be talking, now it doesn’t seem like that anymore and it makes me practically useless because I have almost zero memory anything during the day, I try to be productive but I just feel so worthless. Nothing is special anymore because I can’t experience it because it’s too much of an overload on my brain to think. What can i do? I already have a sleep routine but that doesn’t work anymore.

I was prescribed Ambien 5mg once daily 4 months ago it’s been working like a charm if I combine it was 20mg of melatonin.

The problem is I’m also prescribed a high dose of adderall (60mg) IR everyday and Xanax. Both are AS NEEDED.

I’d like to increase the ambien dosage but don’t want to lose my prescription. How did you guys go about increasing your dosage?

Context: I work a rotating 12 hour third shift so my sleep isn’t consistent. I need melatonin on top of the ambien for it to “kick in”.

I am sleeping 7 hours again and waking up tired like a teenager like I want to stay in bed sleeping. For the past 2+ years I would wake up at 3am or 4am and not feel like I wanted to go to sleep. If I had a full day on the computer doing analytic work, my body felt amp'd and didn't feel like it would not fall asleep. after 2-3 hours I would take a pill.

Then about 10 days ago I went back to normal, like I used to sleep. I don't yawn at night like I used to but falling asleep is not a problem. Psychologically, I'm still taking Oily gummies for sleep but I'll probably drop that too. What do I think caused it? One of 2 things:

1. right before this started, I said 'fuck it' and I took 4 days of hydroxozine in a row -half pills. I would nap the next day so I know it had a good effect on me. My urinary frequency went down too. Since I'm sleeping better, my urinary frequency is back to normal. I suspect my CNS (central nervous system) never fully settled to it's original base after my hyperarousal event 2 years ago and why I would wake up at night and felt it hard to sleep if I got stressed out. I had never taken such chill out meds for a half week continuously but I have taken alot of other pills in the past 2 years, just never continuously for a period of days due to fear of dependence. This is a better explanation that #2 perhaps.
2. Just before, I thought I had a fungal skin infection and took a week of oral anti-fungals. At the same time, I was worried and also took an antibiotic for 7 days. Taking 20 days of doxycycline preceded my flipping out with anxiety in an almost traumatic fashion 2 years ago. I've always wondered if my microbiome never recovered or got thrown out of kilter. Could the combination here have returned me to some balance? I've tried recovering my vit D levels via the Right Sleep program and that didn't help. I also know that before all of this I would sleep fine and I was vit D deficient all the time. This is a stretch but it's the only other out of the ordinary thing i did preceding getting this huge turnaround.

I hope this sticks and lasts. I had stopped worrying about insomnia almost a year ago and really accepted I'd be a 3-4.5 hour sleeper the rest of my life. This change feels physiolological though and I feel as though when I come back from a night time pee I'm super sleepy like I used to and I fall back asleep in 5 minutes. In the past, I would never fall back a asleep.

I'm noticing my muscle tone is improving (I'm 54 and my muscles felt very soft all the time compared to 2 years ago).

Just sharing this to give others hope. I do hope everyone finds a solution to their sleep troubles and good rest.

Hey everyone I am 35 years old male who have been experiencing very strange symptoms for 4 years, It all started 2020 after summer I suddenly started to lose feeling sleepy and the need for sleep. It came suddenly one night, I began to notice as the days went on that my dreams were choppy and vivid.. I could wake up feeling no rest at all and the days went on like this for 3 weeks feeling extreme fatigue. Then poof! My feeling of fatigue and tiredness vanished I started panicking because everybody thought it was psychological I went to the ER several times did every test to diagnose why without anything coming up, then I slowly started to accept that this is going to be like this from now on. And now after 4 years I have problem with my balance when i walk everything leans to left and right I get motion sickness frequently only by walking, swaying when standing on legs feeling waves of blood rushing. I do get nausea and my eyes jiggle and vibrate whereever I look at. Its driving me insane I am slowly losing my bodily functions and I am scared of dying. I am going to see a neurologist soon. If anybody experiences something like this please respond?

I’ve slept maybe 4 or 5 hours in the past 4 days, Whenever I was sleeping I’d wake up immediately due to sweating horribly bad or having an extremely weird vivid dream. I’ve always had anxiety but it seems like it turned into insomnia this past year or so. I’ve taken trazadone and klonopin but stopped due to stomach issues so I’m kind of outta options, I wasn’t an alcoholic but I was drinking more than usual so I cut that off a few weeks ago so idk if that’s fueling this? Sleep deprivation feels like your on another planet

My insomnia is what I would consider mild in the sense I only get one or two big giant insomnia episodes a year that seems to be triggered by different things like my period, depression/anxiety and overall stress but when I do get these episodes I can go up to 48 hours (2 days) with zero sleep and it really freaks me out.

The last episode I had was so bad I was in a daze for a week. I actually did sleep that episode but it was only an hour or two max and then waking up every hour on the dot and that lasted for a week. It left me a bit traumatised that it’s going to happen again.

Last night I only had about three hours sleep and now my mind is already telling me it’s happening again. How do I calm down?

I'm just wondering if any of my fellow insomniacs go through periods of insomnia then periods of complete normality where your sleep six 6 1/2 hours a day, and then another period of insomnia for weeks and then all of a sudden you crash.

Well it happened to me the other day I slept for nearly 12 hours a day not completely in one go, it would be like six hours and then another two hours and then another three hours on the sofa, I was just crashing out for about four or five days, it was bliss, and then after that I couldn't sleep again very well, only got three hours four hours and not all in one go in sort of periods two hours here three hours there, like last night I slept 2 hours the after 6 hours another 3 and a half hours, surely I can't be the only one is like this just to add I'm really unwell I'm on a lot of medication including methotrexate and steroids and shit loads of other stuff I'm just wondering whether anybody else has this problem I do get Sleeping Tablets but they don't seem to be working very well these days I just went into the cover and dug out a load of diazepam cause I think I'm gonna have to hit the big stuff 🤦 goddamn dammit when I was younger I could sleep for days a bomb could go off it outside my window and I wouldn't have woken up, insomnia sucks.

Hi all, hopefully this is okay to post here.

I stopped taking ADHD meds (Vyvanse) end of March this year as it just wasn’t sitting right with me. I tried Concerta beforehand which was fine except I was allergic to something in it and had to stop taking it. Whilst on the meds I had insomnia issues, but they were largely manageable and responded to OTC sleeping meds.

When I came off Vyvanse I tapered down over week and weeks, and had a month or so of severe insomnia which I figured was just withdrawal form it. Things settled for a few months until…the insomnia returned.

It’s gradually gotten worse and worse over the past 6 months and it’s debilitating. Totally treatment resistant - not even prescribed sleeping meds or benzos touch it. Whole nights without sleep sometimes 3-4 nights a week, even if I’ve only had a few hours. Done intensive therapy, tried melatonin…CBD…giving up all caffeine etc…literally everything. Next step is neurology.

I’m NOT looking for medical advise or trying to fear monger, but it seems too weird a coincidence for the ADHD meds not to be related to this. I’m just wondering if anyone here has ever experienced this?

I just feel very very alone in it. Thanks all.

my sleep schedule is currently 12pm - 11pm … i’m wondering if i should just tough it out with an all-nighter that I haven’t been able to do because I’m sick or if there’s anything else I can try out of desperation. melatonin, trazodone, healthy sleep habits all don’t work. if i do pull an all-nighter, should I go out so I’m not at home on the verge of passing out everywhere I relax at?

Going on 36 hours of no sleep. I close my eyes and lay in bed but nothing comes to me. I feel my body tired and I'm losing my mind.

I am suffering from chronic insomnia since 2016 after a triggering event. And I suffered terrible insomnia until 2021 both sleep onset and sleep maintenance averaging 3-4h hours of broken sleep per night.

During this time I tried most supplements and meds. But nothing worked or was sustainable.

In particular:

• Sleep restriction therapy: Hell of a therapy. One of the hardest thing I have done in my life. It worked to improve my sleep time and quality. But any stress increase or change in environment would fuck my sleep again and I had to start again. Mentally it wasnt sustainable to keep doing it every time. Pure torture

• All gabaergics meds (benzo, zpills): works but I develops quick tolerance and rebound insomnia/anxiety after is so awful i can only use those as 1-2 days ultra emergency solution.

• Antihistaminics: Give me sleep but no rest. feeling like it nuke my brain. Made me suicidal and change my mood a lot. Also feel like I somehow get tolerance from those. Not sustainable.

• Tricyclic (and traz): Works but using long term affect my mental state in a terrible way also I have the feeling to nuke all my brains receptors to get some sleep. After a few months of usage i noticed some tolerance. Withdrawal from Amitriptyline (just 3 months usage) was the worst time of my life.

But I got finally some of my life back in 2021 when trying dayvigo. The first week I took it it didnt do shit i thought it was sugar pills (and that my life was really over). But then suddenly it worked and felt rested. I thought it will only be a few days relief like most meds and supplements often do before the body reajust to its sleeping 3h a night state. But it keept working amazingly. I went from 3-4h to 5-6h avg still struggling a little with maintenance. I still had to avoid stressful situations and must have a very chill life. Every time I have a very stressful emotional moment dayvigo doesnt seems to work as well and my sleep is back to being terrible. The first time it happened i thought my honeymoon with dayvigo was over for me but as soon as my personal situation stabilized dayvigo start working well again.

Since then I have found two more things that reliably increased my life confort around sleep.

• NMN supplementation: I take it most morning. Not only it gives me energy when I am sleep deprived but it seems to help slightly with sleep maintenance. Adding 10m to my total sleep.

• Buteyko breathwork: This one is changing my life again currently and gives me hope I may do a full recovery (not yet). Because with dayvigo I was still struggling to get this last h of sleep and still very sensitive to stress variation I was still looking for new things to try. I discovered Buteyko randomly when an asthmatic person told me how it cured its asthma and then casually added than since he is doing this he sleep less but still feel rested and even more energetic. So I thought why not trying if I can reduce my sleep needs to 6h instead of 7 maybe it will help. And now I am doing this for like 3 months also with mouth taping and I am feeling a huge change in my sleep quality and reliability. I still sleep an avg of 6h but my sleep is so much deeper and restful. Also stressful situation and not optimal sleep setup dont seem to impact my sleep as much anymore. Buteyko restrictive breathing exercices takes time and effort and I am still early in this journey but I am so happy to be more and more functional again. So I dont thing this can be a cure directly to chronic insomnia but it's a great support to a medical treatment.

I’ve struggled with it for 20 years, but lately sleeping meds aren’t working.

I’ve tried every sleeping pill on the market

I exercise. I have great sleep hygiene. I do weekly therapy. I work with a psychiatrist monthly. I work with a sleep doctor, a sleep psychiatrist and a sleep psychologist (I’m not kidding).

I haven’t slept in 4 days. Tonight I took 4 mgs on klonopin, nyqiil, clonodine and busbar. Wide awake. I’m out of ambien, but when I have it I need 20-30 mgs to sleep.

Every dr is dismissive. Sleep hygiene non stop. I will lose my job and my house if I keep going like this. Why can nobody help me??

My dad had the same issue and he shot himself. Insomnia is life ruining. And people with mild insomnia give me the same advice that doesn’t apply to me.

I can’t see a doctor until the 3rd and I can’t make it that long with zero sleep. I’m not even getting 5 minutes a night.

Anyone else experience this level of insomnia?

Edit to add: I went to urgent care she prescribed me hydroxyzine and I just napped, a deep sleep, for 6 hours. I’m going to eat and try to go back to bed for the night. I’m so happy I could cry.

Just to clear something up, what i define as a "decent sleep" tends to be falling asleep 30 minutes to an hour after going to bed, and staying asleep.

The reason for my not being able to sleep is so stupid I debating even posting this. But my YouTube fyp is FILLED with those video essays and content centered around horror games, and has been for a while. I've been watching more since I wanted to stop mindlessly scrolling on tik tok and get used to longer form content. But I'm the biggest baby to ever exist once the lights go out and I'm all alone with my stupid brain. I'm always scared I'll be idk eaten or kidnapped or murdered or some other kind of spooky stuff happening to me. I can't sleep with my back faced to the window since I'm terrified something will be there, can sleep facing it since I'm terrified something will be there. And I'm always shifting around and moving and that makes it harder for me to sleep. Only when it's early morning and there's light is when I can comfortably sleep. I continue watching the next dissection of a horror game story the next day since I'm a big idiot and I'm not scared when im watching this stuff in the daytime. Same thing with horror movies which is why I skip the watch and just read the Wikipedia page instead since I won't piss myself thinking about it. I try thinking happy things but my mind always wanders back to all the spooky things that are totally gonna get me.

I just want to sleep, but I don't know if I should just stop watching any horror related thing altogether or if I should figure something else out to help me not be scared of my literal room in the dark. Any advice or experiences are appreciated.

I'm not asking for professional input as to what I should do to treat it/diagnosis-- so, not requesting true medical advice. Still, I am asking if anyone has experienced anything similar to what I long have faced. My attempts at fixing it left it acknowledged, but there was definitely some lack of familiarity each time the symptoms came up. If so, ever find answers?

I'm aware that this post is very long but it is difficult for me to summarize my current and prior medical problems among other things, I ended up settling for whatever I could get out. In reality this is like the snippet on the back of a book compared to what my doctors know about and detailing all experiences potentially relevant.

So, starting the first month of my life, I have had the pleasure of contending with regular stretches of complete sleep deprivation, and severely limited sleep the rest of the time.

It has begun to affect my psychical wellness more and more with age, but certainly never felt good. I'm concerned about the future consequences because I'm getting old enough that damage will be done once it is done. I already have risk factors for dementia and more, that's the least of my concerns given the rest will likely result in consequences of it all killing me long before I get there.

In general, I cannot fall asleep. It does not matter how content I am. I have mental health issues but am aware of the symptoms to the extent of it was actively all solely result, I would know. My doctors also do not consider it to be. Panic increases when I don't sleep and sometimes things do cause me anxiety that keeps me up, but it rarely starts there. If anything I grow extremely neurotic after the first 72 hours, and that is problematic in social situations and trying to fall asleep again.

Following a sleep study, I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, I am kind of confused about my apnea index now because it was over a decade ago-- I slept a total of two hours and I could have sworn they said I had either 80+ apneas and hypopneas an hour, maybe it was the index, they definitely stated it was 80+ in relation to something. I need to get in there again, but it will be months and is far so looking for input in the meantime.

When diagnosed, I was underweight and didn't notice any symptoms. My issues revolved around falling asleep. I later rapidly gained weight and definitely notice symptoms now, but they are not preventing me from falling asleep. Definitely, feel somewhat foreign, but not the full cause.

I was unable to sleep with a CPAP and was told that any other option would not be enough. I'm willing to give it another shot, because I've tried everything over the years. The severity and length of time it has been this way doesn't always afford me the ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle for numerous reasons, and I'm working on the ones within my control.

The issue is-- every doctor I have had has told me it isn't based on poor mental health, and it isn't just the sleep apnea (beyond one who gave me enough Ambien to kill an elephant and chalked it up to mental health, stating complete refusal to look into it further at the first appointment).

They have no clue though not neurologists, psychologists, psychologists, sleep specialists, and plenty more.

I'm frightened because I also have no clue and if I even attempt to figure it out by perusing search engine results, there is nothing whatsoever that matches up. I do feel very fatigued, and will sometimes fall asleep briefly while standing.

Additionally, I'm diagnosed with epilepsy and sleep deprivation is one of two things they believe prompts episodes. Beyond those two things, it is considered to be managed by medication. They told me medication would not change the effects of the other issues were occurring.

In my case, they have been on the dot there.

Medications do not help--basically anything that has ever been recommended as means of inducing sleep has failed. I don't understand why I don't eventually fall asleep for longer than a minute if I am sitting there beyond the point of functioning having the possibility of becoming reality. When it gets to the end stages I struggle with breathing, horrible pain, considerable tremors everywhere, cognitive issues, worsened mental health, a lot of random reactions to things (like, hives in response to something that is later fine and had been before), bruises everywhere, rapid heart rate and palpitations, overly sensitive and itchy skin, slow to heal minor wounds, reduced ability to make the right choices in the moment (I will typically think they are all reasonable after a week or more without sleep), my vision is severely impacted, I lose all appetite, I struggle in relation to improving any of my other mental or physical health issues eventually-- along with countless other problems.

I feel awful.

When I do sleep it is EXTREMELY rare for it to last more than 2–4 hours. I do not nap during the day unless I have been having seizures and even then it is brief. I don't use my bed for anything aside from attempting to sleep, I don't have the fatal familial insomnia, I don't have mutation of gene associated, I don't have any family history of this disease, and I don't experience symptoms that lead to answers.

Not only that, but I've always committed and tried what was available if a doctor agreed in the event the least likely things were culprits. No success. I need to do something about it, but have never heard of anyone experiencing it to the extent I do, neither have my parents, doctors, research studies I've participated in, et cetera. It makes no sense to me. My parents thought I would grow out of it when I was first born. Nope.

I need input if anyone is familiar with this type of thing, it has ruined periods of my life entirely, and I'm on track for it to ruin my life altogether. I want to be able to at least reference it to applicable doctors and feel like something wasn't tested/someone else experiences it, anything.

In the end I want to fix it, but it's kind of hard to do that when there doesn't appear to be a single health issue truly matching my symptoms in full. The ones that come close require specific symptoms I don't have, and most of them are not even that close.

I'm willing to try and get I can, but no one can think of anything left to try. I don't know if this is even worth posting, but in the event someone else has gone through similar for their entire life-- can't hurt. Maybe it will lead to stumbling upon something useful.

I can't understand why I can't sleep unless I have earphones. 3 years ago. I was taking medication for anxiety and depression; medication stopped abruptly and since then I haven't had good sleep. So, to help I sleep with earphones so that why I can't think of anything to keep me up in the night. When I don't have earphones I can't sleep at all. I think about LIFE. Things that could happen, what if's, my childhood, my daughter and how he life will be like....all of these things at once by the end of it if there is an end, which sometimes I just wanna cry by that moment) an hour or so has went past and I'm not sleepy. now l'm takin muscle relaxers, but I can't stay sleep through the night I toss and turn and I feel like l'm never really sleep. Not until I put the earphones in. What's wrong? I know yall aren't doctors, but is anyone else going through the same that can offer tips?

Hey, so quick post. Does anyone randomly just get terrible insomnia at the most random times. Like the other week I stayed up straight for 5-6 days with only around 2 hours of sleep in total but at the same time there are other weeks where it’s just a day i can’t sleep and then just have maybe some difficulty sleeping but I can. I know stress is an attribute of it but most of the times I’m not super stressed so I’m just curious, is this anyone else?

So ive never been able to sleep before 1/2am no matter what, i can do 2-3 shifts in a row of 12 hours, waking up at 5/6am and still not sleep tell 1/2am. This last like 14-15 months ive become self employed and since then it doesn't matter really when i sleep. However i've noticed in winter my sleep schedule goes completely wack, last decemeber i would sleep around 6am and wake up at 4pm, then jan/feb i was sleeping around 8am and waking up at around 6pm. This kinda went back to 3/4am ish in June-September Now for the last two months my sleeping pattern has been totally wack, first id sleep at 6am, but the last two weeks ive been falling asleep around 10-2pm, and this has caused me to have problems waking up most days i dont wake up tell 8pm, no matter what alarms i set what alarms i use (Tried alarmy just do the task and turn it of or i unistall it) i always end up turning them of and going back to bed cause im so exhausted. Ive tried pulling all nighters mutiple times but then end up back in the same pattern, i try and sleep and can be laying in bed for 2 hours and not sleep even though im super tired, does anyone have any tips? winter just seems to ruin my pattern i just wanna sleep at like 3-4am and wake up around 2pm ish but i cant and idk what else to do

i haven’t been sleeping well, waking up multiple times through the night not being able to go back to sleep. my psych put me on Ambien CR. so far, i think it’s working? it’s not keeping me asleep but i definitely knock out faster. my parents are worried about me taking it because of these “horror stories” on Ambien. the worst i’ve done is fall asleep drinking my water bottle lol. anyone else on this and can share experiences?

Chest feels like a fucking bomb is about to explode and I’m not even stressed out about anything. Laying here doing absolutely nothing and can’t even relax without my chest knocking me to the wayside. Cannot stand insomnia.

After rough two years of sleeping average 3 hours per night plus with countless sleepless nights, since yesterday I’m able to sleep 5-6 hours all of a sudden. I stopped listening to sleep podcasts, sleep meditation, relaxing nature sounds on my phone but instead I drift off to sleep in silence. That seems to give me less anxiety. I’m medication free. And I keep one rule, I only go to bed when it’s hard to keep my eyes open and I wake up at the same time. Also I try to do every task during my day. For example I met a wonderful person and I told her that I really like her and she turned out to like me too. I try to not procrastinate anymore on the things that I feel like I have to do that might keep me worried during the night. I’m not sure if it will work long term but I made peace with insomnia I don’t care about it anymore. To all of you who suffers from this shit, i wish you the best as I wish all the best for myself as well. Bye for now

To be fair I think I've only slept a grand total of 4 hours within these 4 evenings. Should I be worried about this? Should I arrange a doctor visit ASAP?

I’m still on the hunt for the right fit for me. Through a long trial and error, I still don’t have the right answer. I feel like I’ve tried everything. I’m hoping maybe someone can maybe suggest a medicine that’s maybe a little outside the box that works for insomnia that you wouldn’t typically be prescribed idk. I cannot breathe out of my nose AT ALL on trazadone. I like seroquel but it made me gain too much weight and raised my cholesterol. Remeron made me gain weight. Doxepine just straight up didn’t work. Lunesta gives me this bizarre pill like taste in my mouth that lasts 24 hours. Ambien kinda works but unfortunately doctors usually will not prescribe any Z- drugs for longer than 4 weeks. DORAs like belsomra and quviviq work really well for me but my insurance won’t cover them because they are so new and have not come out with a generic form yet. They are like $500 and insurance MIGHT cover half but I cannot afford that every month. Amnitiptyline caused me to have massive anxiety attacks. Ramelteon is what I’m left with apparently and it only works half the time and that’s when I take it with extra gabapentin. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions outside of what I mentioned. I was thinking maybe clonodine but I’ve had low blood pressure lately. 🤷‍♀️ I’m going to see a different psychiatrist this week. My insurance company has been offering no help.. anyways, thanks everyone!

Jim Donovan's short TED talk, "How to Trick the Brain Into Falling Asleep" has helped me and I've been plagued by insomnia for years. It is very simple and only takes 3-4 minutes. Well worth a try! or several tries