[Rose76]

I see people on this forum describing problems like I face. All my life I had trouble falling asleep. In recent years, though, a new wrinkle has developed. Even after I fall asleep, I wake up in a few hours. It can take me 12 hours to wrack up 7 hours worth of sleep.

I would like to ask to get back on Restoril, but I doubt I'll get it. I take Vicodin, so they won't want me on a sleeper as well. They fear, with two depressant meds, I might fall asleep permanently. As if. The longest I can possibly sleep now is 5 hours consecutively, and that's not often I do that.

I'm so sick to death of being awake at 2 a.m. or 4 a.m., thinking "What do I do now?" I wake up in the morning about 8 a.m., feeling so unrested. So I eat something and go back to bed.

I take amitriptyline, which does make a difference. Without it I would just not fall asleep at all, for a day or so.

Has anyone gotten real help from a "sleep study clinic?" I've been for an overnight sleep study. I think they just order CPAP and oxygen for everybody. I tried oxygen. It didn't help.