Cool Insomnia Club #3

I so feel this.. the struggle

I took Ambien 2 days in a row, I did sleep not the good sleep but I was knocked out.

Is your Pdoc not wanting you on it daily ? I know most are against it. But Damn.... then someone needs to come up with something else !

Right now I'm taking a Rx for it where I have enough for daily. He just refilled the Rx but idk yet if wrote for as many. I really don't want to take it every day. But I also don't want to be up and super anxious and pacing every night. It's been a struggle since I quit smoking. I used to fall asleep great just had early waking issues. What pdoc told me last time is to try to sleep without it, and if I haven't fallen asleep after and hour or two, cut the pill in half so it works faster. I get nervous not sleeping. I stopped taking Ambien in July. Slept terrible. I went on a mood Rollercoaster, though it was on the milder side, it was still annoying.

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I fell asleep without a melatonin last night. But I took a couple vertigo meds. I woke up around 11:30 and I needed the melatonin then. I took it and I fell back asleep fairly quickly and I woke up off and on until 4:30. I woke up feeling very anxious and hot and I felt like just deep cleaning my room since I didn’t do it yesterday. I’ve been cleaning since I got up 2 hours ago.

That sounds so typical of what our struggle to sleep is about. I am surprised that some new bright shiny more expensive sleep medication hasnt hit the news yet

Well I got ZERO sleep last night. Not even a single extended blink

Sure isn't helping the damn hallucinations I have going on..

Life

I fell asleep while AGT was almost over and I woke up a couple hours later when Jimmy Fallon was on. Now I’m awake but I feel like if I put my phone down I’ll be able to sleep again.

Edit: I got about 4 hours of sleep. It’s still super early though.

Well I only woke up twice during the four hours of sleep I've gotten so far. I said if I woke up between 1 and 3 I'd take a thorazine which doesn't make me sleepy but helps with the symptoms making it easier to go to bed. I don't know if it'd work right now because I don't feel that tired and since the pharmacy is giving me shyt I'm trying to save the week's worth I have so I guess I'm just up.

My sleep is total garbage. I am not doing well at all.

I’ve still been waking up at 4:30. Last night I took about 50mil of melatonin. 3 different kinds. I fell asleep quickly. Then I woke up at 4:30 feeling no physical affect from the melatonin. I just felt frustration at the time. I had to stay in my room for 1.5 hours so I wouldn’t wake anyone up. Then I got up but I didn’t take a shower right away.

All I can take is melatonin or else I get frantic like hungry. I’ve tried unisom and Benadryl and both caused me to eat massively. My Pdoc still thinks I’m taking the remeron. Which I’m not because it caused me to gain 14 pounds in 2 weeks and the weight gain is one of the reasons I ended up in IOP in December 2020.

I keep waking up too early & then can't get back to sleep.

I took the full dose of ambien last night and woke way before my alarm! That sucks. Woke up at around 2:30 too. Something about stoves bubbling over. I always wake up so hot even though I don’t use blankets and have a fan going. They say your supposed to cool down as you sleep, not me. I furnish enough heat to keep a small house warm for a Minnesota winter ❄️

Slept for 20 minutes, then was up an hour, then slept an hour and a half, then was up for another two hours, then slept less then an hour, and here I am. Even took the thorazine...twice... pnurse didn't really care about my lack of sleep, said we'd address it next month.

I did sleep some & dreamed, but I feel like I haven't slept for days.

I fell asleep quickly without any medications. I woke up at 11 feeling dehydrated. So I drank a bottle of body armor. Then I realized I wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep without a melatonin. So I took just one and I woke up at my frustrating usual time. Although I was still groggy so I was able to just lie in bed until 5:50 feeling moody but not antsy.

Slept pretty good at the beginning of the night but woke up far too early. Was able to fall into a lucid dream state. Really rather cool. I’d been hospitalized with the usual bad hospital 🏥 dreams but with the lucid dreaming was able to turn it around. The institutional building turned into a warm connection of warm wooden buildings. And the pdoc changed into a Santa personality. He changed his office into a toy store. He still looked like the pdoc but his personality changed.

I’m trying to stay up as late as possible so I can sleep in as late as possible. Although all my other similar plans have failed. So I’m not sure why I expect this to be any different. The latest I slept in was 12:30PM 10 years ago. I just took another 10 mil melatonin totaling 20 mil. so I’m kind of tired. It is a couple hours later then I normally go to bed.

But I am determined to sleep past 4-4:45AM.

Quit Ambien CR after being a dummy and taking it 5-6 straight weeks. Anxiety is bad. I've barely slept in 2 days. I'm over the anxiety and sleep issues. It's been non-stop for 6 months.

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Well it worked. I fell asleep at about 9. I think I took 30mil of melatonin but I’m not sure. I then woke up at 4:46 and I thought “crap” but then I just forced myself to get back to sleep until 7:15.

I don't know how long I slept. Also I'm very sleepy & tired.

Slept three hours straight last night, almost a record. I got another hour in later in the morning. I think I'm going to try taking thorazine before bed or when I usually wake up ~1am regardless of psychotic symptoms or lack thereof to see if that helps tonight.

Didn’t sleep last night. Gave up and got up and tried to read. My back hurt so badly I decided to go back to bed was almost to sleep when my cat ran up me, from my feet, up my legs and back even stepped on my head!

I took an Ambein.. I have to shut my brain off. It will give me fake sleep.. If that makes sense to anyone.

Anyway Hope Sleep finds all of you

I tried to make myself go to sleep, but here I am, not sleeping, even though I'm very tired.

I fell asleep at 8:30. I’m not sure why I woke up this early. I’m guessing it could just be anxiety and nerves. I took melatonin and ate dinner. This is really early for me to get up

Edit: I got back to sleep about half an hour after writing this and I fell asleep for a couple more hours and I feel ok now. I actually fell asleep after drinking a Mountain Dew.