Cool Insomnia Club #3

Got four and half hours of sleep, woke up four times. It ain't much better, but I think I am sleeping more now that I use a night light and a stuffed animal to hold (like a little kid haha but whatever works)

I’m back to a tossing and turning for the first half of the night. I’m falling asleep just as the dawn is breaking. But I’m having vivid dreams, most are pretty cool.

My therapist told me to cut my melatonin in half because she said it works better in small amounts. So I did. 3 hours ago. Now it’s much later then I normally would be up if I had taken 30mil. I tried looking for a Benadryl but I couldn’t find one.

The only thing I’ve figured out that works besides meds is some lotion from Lush. It cost me $29 so I hope it helps. It used to work real good.

I slept five hours straight!

I got the Benadryl today. I ended up taking about 45 mil of melatonin and an extra 20 mil Geodon last night. So I think Benadryl is my next step. Mainly for safety concerns. I slept from about 9:30 until 6:15. I kept waking up every hour after 3 but I was able to fall back asleep each time.

I know psych hospitals use Benadryl to help out patients and I was actually prescribed it for a bit for sleep when I was 14. It does work but it makes me a bit hungry. But I’ll just try it again.

I just don't know. I wake up, realizing I've been asleep, but I don't know when I fell asleep. It's after midnight I'm sure, & I wake up around 2:30, or 3 something, or 4?

I took the Benadryl around 4. I fell fast asleep at 6 without eating dinner. I woke up right around 1AM. I don’t really want to go back to sleep so I may try reading a bit.

The last 3 days I've gone to bed around 8pm, but I haven't been falling asleep until around 10pm. Waking up at 3:30am. I will take the 5 to 5.5 hours of sleep. It's an improvement. My night anxiety has been better the last few days, so that's probably why I'm getting sleep.

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My Benadryl works for a few hours. Then I wake up early. I woke up last night at 11:36 and I took another one. The box says you can take 2 at a time. But I didn’t fall back asleep until 2:30. But I can’t take the Benadryl for the next 6 days and it may not have been a good idea to take it last night either….

But I can still take melatonin. But I’ll be careful and just take one and get as much sleep as I can. I also can’t drink herbal teas. So I can’t drink sleepy time or tension tamer. Sleep may be pretty rough for awhile.

I am sleeping every night or morning, but it's more like a nap. Still, I appreciate being able to sleep even a little bit. The body seems to be forcing me to fall asleep at various times.

I fell asleep around 7:30. I slept straight through until 4AM. Considering I got up at 1:30 the other night, and last night I was up from 11:30-2:30, I’m pretty happy with how I slept and when I woke up. I got some reading done for half an hour. I’ll get up in a bit to go sit in the family room.

Hello dear Insomniacs! (~Christina, where are you?) I am tired, ha ha, like who isn't? Anyway, I decided that the brain is very complicated! So I am just waiting until it decides it's time to sleep.

I decided to do a load of laundry after taking 30mil of melatonin. So I was basically half asleep while it was in the washer. Then I asked my mom to wake my up when the dryer was done. It was done about 8PM but it wasn’t dry despite putting it in for an hour. So I set it for another hour and went back to bed. In the meantime I was waiting for the chicken tenders to be done which took 40 minutes. So I was up again around 8:30. I think I woke up around 10 to get a Gatorade. Then I woke up for good right around 5. The laundry is still in the dryer by the way. It’s dry though.

TLDR: I slept very interrupted and chaotically.

Tossing and turning the first half of the night. Then when I did sleep I had these huge complicated dreams. I’d wake up and basically say oh **** I didn’t want to be awake yet, go back into the weird dreams, wake up and repeat 🔁

Had a good night's sleep. I think I was asleep by 8:30 p.m. and I slept until my alarm went of at 4:00 a.m. Did not keep waking up like I have been either. I wish I could sleep like this every night. Yesterday I discovered the blue light filter on my phone, so I used that. Also read something about kiwi helping with sleep. I figure I have nothing to lose by trying it.

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I woke up right before 2. I thought the birds chirping meant it was close to 5. I fell asleep around 7. I think it’s just frustrating that my brother can be as loud as he wants to at 1:30 and it’s ok but my mom tells me to be all quite at 7:30 because he’s sleeping and then when he wakes up she’s so apologetic to him. Dumb double standards in my house.

I slept very well. I fell asleep around 8:30. I woke up at 4:40 and I thought I’d be up but then I fell back asleep until right before 7.

It took me awhile to fall asleep. I woke up at 3. It’s better then most nights I’ve had though. I’m hoping because I woke up early today I’ll sleep until 5 tomorrow morning.

hey guys ~

Woah all i do is sleep since I got out of IP Monday. Feels so strange to sleep. I know alot is new meds and they will level out over time. I guess Ill just enjoy this while I can.

Hugs to anyone in need

Embrace the sleep. You know it’s elusive.

I can't sleep, I've been up going on 40 hours and I'm worried my meds are poisoning me

It’s unlikely that your meds are poisonous but it could be that they are not working.

I'm glad you're back, @~Christina, & that you are finally getting some good sleep!

I finally got some sleep. I took my thorazine. I stopped taking it because I didn't want to be on two APs, but I can't seem to sleep without it apparently

That sucks blue bird, but so does insomnia.

Maybe an hour, if that. Very bad night and that always affects my back. Soooooo much to do today. I hate it.