The cool insomnia club #2

My Pdoc prescribed Ambien yesterday. So I did get 8 hours , its not a Natural sleep so that kinda sucks but its okay I was knocked out.

Hope everyone is able to get Sleep tonight

Well, 9 hours or so. Maybe today will be better.

It's 5:30am here and i have not slept. This is highly unusual for me. I am a normally a good sleeper. I've been resting in the daytime tho and that's probably not doing anything good for my night-time sleep.

Also, the junior superintendent yelled at me yesterday as my delivery man parked in the "fire lane." This is the lane in front of the building where all delivery men park. He said he got into an argument with the delivery man and wanted me to complain to the man's employer. Ha! That is between the two of them.

I'll advise future deliveries to park elsewhere tho. The junior superintendent is a very excitable man who has tons of energy and nothing to do outside of work hours. It's not the first time he's hassled me about minor points of house rules. Guess he's got nothing else to do.

Anyways, my hopes for a benzo taper have gone up in smoke as i don't want to be withdrawing when i already have insomnia.

A bright red sunrise!

well, Albert snuck under my comforter and started chasing both o fmy legs at 0357, even though bother were totally motionless, so, up now. Got some sleep, maybe 6 hours, maybe 5. Onward.

More sleep but I am tired of the chemical knocked down sleep so will skip Ambien tonight. Might stay up and watch some ER I have like 14-16 recorded.. I need some quiet time to just check out and fall into the TV Show.. '

Hope Ya'll can get some sleep tonight

I got a few very broken hour as expected. Ambien is not something that I will take daily, It loses effectiveness super fast , so i usually wait until Im half dead from lack of sleep.. Meh!

I don't know what to do to sleep anymore. All the options are tried and either failed or have very moderate, occasional success. The best sleep I get is between 9 and 11 in the morning. My clock is turned around.

I sometimes think I should move to Australia just because my clock would fit better with their hours.

Not sleeping again - too many worries

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Originally Posted by Polibeth Not sleeping again - too many worries

I'm so sorry. If you want to share, what are some of your worries?

This is the first time in almost 2 weeks that I haven’t slept good. I’m hoping to get back to sleep soon.

Barely slept at all until this afternoon, when I crashed out for 90 minutes and now feel lousy. I'll take a small Seroquel tonight, which is very upsetting. But the lack of sleep is causing me to become depressed and that scares me.

Dozed off a few times but PTSD nightmares started , after the second one I am done and I just get up..

Nammu ... Any dreams?

Polibeth .. Things any better ??

Beth... I hope your able to sleep tonight.. I bet it feels great with that cast off..

Mountaindewed.. I hope your return to good sleep quickly

Thank you, Christina. You're a sweetheart

It does feel great to have the cast off. I wear the walking boot during the day, but not when I sleep. So nice.

I'm having trouble remembering my dreams, I know I'm dreaming but they slip away so fast.

UGH - I'm up again after 3 hours of sleep. One of my cats actually woke me up - he gets bad anxiety in the middle of the night while his humans are asleep and sometimes he acts up.

Nammu - I wish I remembered my dreams but I so rarely do.

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Originally Posted by Polibeth UGH - I'm up again after 3 hours of sleep. One of my cats actually woke me up - he gets bad anxiety in the middle of the night while his humans are asleep and sometimes he acts up. Nammu - I wish I remembered my dreams but I so rarely do.

One of mine does, too. Sometimes it helps if I hold her against me while I sleep.

Dreaming obsessively about an old boyfriend. I truly do not want to dream about the guy. There's nothing there, in any way, for me. It's really annoying.

Well since Ambien poops out on me so fast. Im slamming 2 shot of NyQuil tonight , Hope it will help give me at least 4-5 hours

Lots of sleep hugs

I fell asleep at 8:30 and then woke up wide awake at about 10:15. That’s pretty weird for me. Less than 1.5 hours of sleep after going to bed that late. I did get up pretty late yesterday morning though. I can take my Geodon in an hour or I can try some melatonin.

I have sharp, dull, achy, you name it type pains in my back which isn’t helping.

I sometimes do that with my cat too - if he'll let me. It does seem to help him calm down and me get back to sleep

Couple shots of Nyquil got me 5 hours ! So Im okay for a few days at least.

Hope you all can get some good quality sleep tonight

I was up for three hours in the middle of the night. Then fell back to sleep and woke up really confused and cranky.

Christina, I just ordered ZzzQuil on Amazon. I used to take it, can't recall if it helped me sleep or, if it did, how much.

You said 2 shots. Do you mean twice the amount recommended?

Beth.. Well Yes 2 doses, I honestly just take 2 big swigs outta the bottle... and I immediatly go laydown, A few times I have take another swig but no more and I like my Kidneys and Liver too much to risk it. I tried the ZzzzQuil it didnt even give me a long blink.

The only time that I actually got a pretty consistant amount of sleep daily. I was on 800 mg Seroquil and either Xanax or Valium.. But well the Seroquil caused weight gain and it began to fade with sedative side effect in 4-6 weeks. I have Seroquel here of all doses, Zyprexa, Abilify, Thorazine, Haldol,and probabaly 5-10 more

So I have a large amount of meds that I can try.. Nothing works for me for more than a couple weeks so I seldom take them. I need them when I am on day 4-5-6 of no sleep.. It sucks, alot

I remember being young 7-8 years old? My Mother would find me awake in the middle of the night and whoop my azzzzzz over it.

Even years later my brain is just afraid to fall asleep but thats due to my csa, I had one of those "Uncles" So honestly altho all that I have processed. My T Richard and my Pdoc think that my overwhelming fear from the PTSD will always be a factor and ill probably not ever get sleep daily. So I take what I can and if need be snow myself totally under.

Now with My Husband having more health problems I am finding sleep harder to find.. But I do what I can when I can ..

Hope your able to find sleep