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...
Another night only 2 hours sleep. I have no problem falling asleep. I wake up 2 or 3 or 4 hrs later & can't fall back to sleep. I'm beginning to believe my husband coming home from work 2nd shift is waking me up. He says he's always quiet, but I hear the creek floors when he goes to bed. We sleep in separate bedrooms for years because of his snoring, which he refuses to do anthing about. When IM woken up, sometimes I'm so angry, I can't fall back to sleep. I'm so shaky then. I'm shaky especially in the morning. I want to cry, but I cant. He's fixed what he could for the creek floors, but still hear it when he goes to bed. Beside myself. I feel like getting a hotel room to see if I sleep better. Help this had been going on for months. I've always slept 7 /8 hrs before then. It really started since I went on weight watchers. Maybe my blood sugar is low in the middle of the night. So hard to figure this out.
I have really noisy neighbors so I sleep with ear buds in and use a white noise app on my phone to block out the noise and I can't hear a thing. Works like a charm!
Wishing you the best :)
What you're describing happens to so many of us. When we're up in the night we get preoccupied with listening to sounds, any sounds, all sorts of sounds. That is a form of an occupying thought that fuels insomnia. If it's not sounds it could be worry about what's happening tomorrow, or what happened the previous day, or simply playing a tune over and over in your mind. I'm sure many of us can relate.
The key here to me is to separate out what you can control and what you can't. Pretty much impossible to have a completely noise-free sleeping environment. But we can adjust, people do it all the time. One trick is distraction ... when you sense yourself starting to delve into occupying thoughts, listening, playing a tune, worrying, whatever, try distracting yourself. One of the simplest distraction method is counting sheep. There's many, many others you can try.
Yes it can be difficult to sort out what's insomnia and what else might be going on that is disrupting your sleep. Sounds like you do have some other medical issues that could be involved, particularly with the trazadone. My take is it's important to discuss all this with your doc to be sure whatever therapy you're on is all working together for the best results.