Anyone having trouble getting any sleep?

My mom drinks a little wine before going to sleep for the night and she snores and snores. NyQuil helps me sleep and so does getting regular exercise and going to bed around the same time every night.

My sleep is improving. I'm not tossing and turning nearly all night.

Waking less frequently during the night, woke for first time at 5am this morning. No nightmares, instead a feeling I was not alone (I was!). In my subconscious a hand was holding mine from behind. When I woke, didn't feel panicked by the experience. Just the opposite. Calm, peaceful, relaxed. :love:

In the past month? I haven't been able to be any sleep. I tried shower at night. Watching a relaxing movie. A sleep mediation.

What can I do to get some sleep?

I still have trouble sleeping. I think I have circadian rhythm disorder, but that requires a few days of sleep study, not just the overnight sleep study that the VA gave me before they diagnosed me with sleep apnea. I also have been diagnosed with insomnia, but I think it's more than the issue with having trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. I have trouble finding a routine sleep pattern.

I also have nightmares and occasional night terrors.

Lunesta never worked for me, and ambien mixed with ativan sometimes worked and sometimes made me feel more dissociative. I stopped those meds years ago! I now only do the holistic thing through chamomile tea on occasion, melatonin on occasion, chamomile and melatonin together, Tylenol PM (but only when I'm NOT using melatonin, as I don't want a reaction) on occasion, or something nothing at all - esp. if I'm naturally tired.

I still wake up anywhere between 2 hours and 6 hours after finally falling asleep. It takes me anywhere between 2 hours to 3 hours to fall asleep. Essentially, my sleep routine would have to be for about 10 hours, due to the length it takes me for me to fall asleep, my dealing with interrupted sleep and then having to try to fall asleep again, etc. It's not fun.

And I'm almost never refreshed, due to my chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). I deal with post-exertion malaise (PEM), so any exertion hours or a day before will cause me to have more unrefreshed sleep and sleep problems.

I was prescribed trazodone for sleep when I was 14 and for most of my life I couldn't sleep without it. Luckily, I didn't have to keep increasing the dose though. I'm still on the minimum dose, 50 mg, and I sleep well with it. Without it, I'm usually up all night.

I did do a sleep study. I didn't think I had apnea, but was wondering about restless leg. The results were normal though. There are sleep clinics in my area, but most of them only deal with apnea, not other sleep issues.