I have problems sleeping also.....since the trauma I went through.....had bad nightmares after that & even though it's 9 years later, I'm still struggling with my sleep.....I seem to need to be completely exhausted before I'm able to sleep & sometimes it takes several days to get to that point which is HORRIBLE.....I sometimes try to sleep....pain specialist even gave me a prescription for sleep.....but I don't like the feeling especially living alone it makes me feel so grogy that if anything did happen, I wouldn't be able to function & it was a very mild sleep aid compared to the high dose of seroquel my pdoc had me on after the trauma.....sometimes when I'm really exhausted & I wake up, I can just go back to sleep like a normal person.....it's getting to bed in the first place that's the hardest.

At times when I have so many things I have to do, I used to make it a demand that I would get something finished before I would allow myself to go to bed...only problem...I have so many things that HAVE to be done that I wouldn't be able to go to bed for a year if I held to that belief.....so I have to force myself to just go to bed....take a narutal sleep enhancer & try hard to shut off my brain & my body because it could go all night