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Originally Posted by rainyday107
May I vent for a moment?
I have insomnia as part of my bipolar disorder. Sleep is very important for me yet one of my biggest hurdles in managing my MI.
Great news. I'm sleepy! This is great.
However, I'm wracked with pain (neck and back). A 7 on a 1-10 scale. It's keeping me awake.
Anyone deal with this issue? I wish I could get my body and mind to cooperate so I can sleep.
I feel responsible, too. A triggering event earlier made my neck and back severely tense up. I didn't realize it as I was affected by the trigger. I think I could have prevented this high pain level if I'd had the awareness.
Does this happen to anyone here? Any tips?
Thanks for listening. I hope you all are hanging in there.  |
I have schizoaffective disorder, major depressive type. I know your pain all too well. I've turned to alcohol, OTC sleeping pills, anything to try to sleep to get a break. It rarely works. I just get to a point where I crash because I have absolutely no energy what so ever. The house could burn down around me and I would be asleep like a rock. I have a weird sleeping pattern. I'm either awake for what feels like forever or I finally crash and spend 24 hours asleep. The lack of sleep makes my hallucinations and depression much worse. The longer without sleep, the more the pain increases and my brain starts ****ing with me. If it wasn't for one of best friends, I wouldn't know when I'm behind completely delusional or not. Pain + lack of sleep = horrible.
I feel you. I just wish I had a solution to help you. Have you tried plain melotonin? The kind sold in the vitamin section? Not the ones that have all kinds of things added. Just straight 10mg melotonin? That will sometimes knock me out. But it's rare. It doesn't stop me from taking them nightly though.
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