Hooray, I have sleep meds. The doc was very understanding and listened to me, yay. She knew I was bipolar (what was her first clue...perhaps being on Lamictal?), but she still treated me for insomnia (while double checking for interactions with the sleep aides she prescribed). I made her laugh with my response to one of the questionnaires...with my short term memory I forgot I'd done it when she asked me about it after cracking up. The question was, "Do you have any family history of illnesses or diseases?" I wrote, "You got an extra sheet of paper?"

So now I have Temazepam and Amtryptyline...I've probably butchered the spellings, but you get what they are. The Temaz is just for 5-6 days to get me into a sleep rhythm, then I go on the other for more long term use and only use Temaz occasionally on bad nights.

Looking forward to having 8 hours finally. Hope I don't wake up at 4pm tomorrow.

Reminder for those confused by my obsessive and obsequious posting: my insomnia started July 31st. So 11 days of 3-5.5 hours per night (with one exception being last Sat night, and every night shooting awake 1-3 times due to feeling rested and energetic or having a nightmare.

***Trigger for those of you nightmare prone (which I am extremely):

Last night it was a snow crab sized spider descending from the ceiling and landing on my bed. To put it mildly, I jumped out of bed and needed the lights turned on to assure myself it wasn't there.

Bleck! Spiders are a recurring theme in a lot of my wake up nightmares.