I've been an insomniac on and off for about 3 years, there was a period of 6 months where I must have slept an hour a night...whatever.
I've been given the traditional sleeping tablets like zopiclone and temazipne (sp?) but they trigger me into self harming badly and don't actually get me to sleep. I normally take promethazine when I have trouble (since last oct) and its worked well.
My sleep has been bad for a couple of weeks. I've tried to do all the sleep hygiene stuff like going to bed at a regular time but I just lie awake and get really frustrated. When I can deal with this it doesn't bother me more than being really tired, screwing up my routine and making me look like hell. When i can't deal with it, i get completely trapped in side myself and really really really suicidal.
Anyway, nothing else has changed, no new meds or anything like that. I've been getting to sleep around 4 and waking up mid morning no matter how many prometh i take but I'm not the slightest bit sleepy now. I'm ****ing exhausted but I don't want to sleep. It's ok sort time, like 3 nights or something, but long term it drives me completely mad and affect everything else.
It's been the holidays so it doesn't matter if I'm not up in the morn but lectures start soon and I have to be awake at 9, what the hell am i going to do? Argh I hate this. it wastes so much of my time. I can't imagine doctors would do anything or even care, anyone got any ideas?
I have this problem too, although it is a bit better at the moment. I don't know if it has been suggested to you, but someone told me that if you go to bed at a regular time, try and get to sleep and if you are still awake in 20 minutes later you should get up and go and do something outside of the room and something non stimulating like cleaning or whatever. Then when you feel sleepy or more tired, go back to bed and repeat the cycle until you fall asleep. Apparently it is supposed to train your brain in a few days.
have you tried stretching? I was given a sheet with like stretching every single muscle in my body, counting slowly to ten with each one (since while you focus on counting your inner voice is unable to speak). I haven't been doing it long enough for it to help me yet, I'm not sure if it will since I tend to stretch in the morning when I wake up and use it to rouse me but it's supposed to relax you. If you haven't tried that I'll type up what the sheet said and you can try it.
I don't know how effective it would be but you could try using a melatonin supplement.
"And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry." - That's The Way by Led Zeppelin
When I can't sleep, which is relatively often, I find that when I'm in bed tossing and turning and getting frustrated, it helps for me to turn my light on, keep my eyes open, and focus on how I shouldn't close my eyes. The whole, reverse psychology kicks in, and eventually, it helps.
I think im getting this too. :( Because I go to sleep at about midnight (yes i go to bed late) wake up at 3 then cant get back to sleep. Im so tired, my eyes are really sore and I look horrible. Yeah, I agree with the dude above, it does suck!
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