[yellowfrog268]

Anyone experience a rush of anxiety when in process of falling asleep? I understand that this happens once in a while to everyone but this has started happening to me everyday with afternoon naps and at night. I do have GAD and take meds but this is new. No changes in health or meds so, what gives? Opinions?

Originally Posted by yellowfrog268

Anyone experience a rush of anxiety when in process of falling asleep? I understand that this happens once in a while to everyone but this has started happening to me everyday with afternoon naps and at night. I do have GAD and take meds but this is new. No changes in health or meds so, what gives? Opinions?

Hello yellowfrog268: I can't say I've experienced a particular rush of anxiety when in the process of falling asleep. However I have lost whatever "enjoyment" I used to get from sleeping. I've always been a person who needed allot of sleep. And I was always ready & willing to go to sleep when the time came. But, over the past year or so, my sleep has become quite disturbed & so, nowadays, I find myself coming up with all manner of ways of avoiding going to bed.

I wonder, in your case, if you have possibly acquired some new stress in your day-to-day life. If so, it may be coming out in the form of these rushes of anxiety when you're trying to fall asleep. I do believe anxiety will find it's way to the surface one way or another. And so in your case perhaps the rushes of anxiety you're experiencing are stress-related anxiety (whether new or not) finding it's way to the surface at the point where you're in the process of falling asleep. This would be my thought on the subject anyway.

[Nammu]

I thought I was the only one that happened to. I've tried telling Pdocs about it and I looked at like yeah right. But I've gotten lucky with Pdocs and Ts lately and they are more receptive to how hard it is for me to relax and get to sleep. It helps that in the hospital they see how hard it is.

I read to try and lower the anxiety sometimes it works. What's helped lately is getting more of a routine, lighting scented candles, reading, winding down around the same time every night. That plus the ambien. I also read that to change the carcadian rhythm you can take melatonin in the afternoon to start relaxing, but check with your pdoc before you do that.

[Thunder Bow]

This is common and if you had an anxious day, you will feel this when falling asleep.

[seaecho]

I do this on a regular basis. I've done it many, many times when going to sleep at night, and also when trying to take a nap, or waking from a nap. It's like a rush of adrenaline. It feels really yukky, so I can sympathize with you. It happens to me at least 40% of the time, I would say. Even if I'm not feeling especially anxious, this will often happen. Never used to--not even when I had panic attacks in the past. I have no idea what causes it, but know you aren't alone.