Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
As I lay here awake after I went to bed so freaking tired reallynpisses me off. Drugs don't work cause they leave me with such a pitiful hangover. I fall asleep and anywhere from an hour to two and if I'm lucky three I'm awake. It is impossible to set a steady sleep pattern as my husband drives a truck and I ride with him. I'm the secretary, cook and bottle washer (as they say). Because I have Graves disease doctors won't prescribe anything anyway and I have to be careful with herbs because of raising the thyroid level. I'm tired of napping and if I don't do that then I just get up cause the more I fight the bed worse it gets.
My suggestion is to first bring this to the attention of your doc. You do have some underlying medical issues that could potentially affect sleep. Your doc is the best one to advise you about this.
That said, the majority of insomnia is primary, meaning without a true medical basis. The true root of primary insomnia typically is in some combination of bad sleep habits and excessive worry about sleep, among other things.
Both of these issues can be sucessfully addressed through cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. This might be worth checking out if you haven't already.
Keep us posted.