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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote
Hi Trace,
I struggle with this, too.
It's even worse if I am traveling an in a public place, like a hotel.
While I love the dark, I am often on high alert and cannot sleep.
I have finally found a helpful med for myself: temazepam.
I am used to clonazepam. Temazepam has more of a hypnotic nature. We are using it to try to retrain me to sleep. It helps me the most of anything I have tried thus far.
I also have sleep apnea now. I have seen a sleep neurologist at a sleep center. We cannot do "sleep studies" until I can "sleep." 
Prazosin is sometimes used if/when people are having nightmares which interrupt their sleep. I do not have nightmares and, thus, have not tried prazosin.
WC |
I have Temazepam, it helped me get to sleep but not stay asleep. The doctor gave me Trazadone it knocks my anxiety down, but then when I wake and get up I'm so loopy that I run into things. Not sure what it's going to take to keep me asleep. My first sleep study I didn't go into REM sleep at all, then my next I did go into REM sleep, stopped breathing 32 times, so he put me on the cpap then. Not very attractive thing in the bedroom
A definite mood killer when you partner looks and sounds like Darth Vader
I need to try the Melatonin pills again, the 5mg, ones that dissolve under the tongue. The best I can remember they helped. I hate taking meds.