I am in a very similar position at the moment to what you have described. It has always taken me around an hour to get to sleep each night however recently if i fall asleep at 3am this is a good night for me! At least twice a week i will get no sleep whatsoever and just roll around bed all night. My doctor has put me on a course of medication over the last month or so but i honestly think that it has made things worse. I now have some anxiety thoughts towards sleep and feel that the medication has helped develop this. I have decided to go cold turkey and hope that after a while of not taking medication, I will go back to normal.

Whenever i cant sleep i try to remind myself that, although a lack of sleep will make the following day harder, it wont stop me in going to work and getting on with my day, so i shouldnt worry too much about it.

I hope that you eventually resolve your sleeping habbits

Thanks much! I've been on medications for over 15 years now, that may be part of the reason I'm not sleeping anymore, I'm already taking pretty high levels and my doc and I decided not to increase the dose of anything at this point. I went through a period where I slept really well in June through about mid=July, seems to go in cycles although this cycle is far worse than anything I've experienced. Cold turkey is rough, not sure what kind of meds you're taking but please be careful. Yeah, it's tough going to work when you don't sleep isn't it! I have managed to get out and exercise 5 times a week despite these issues.

Like most insomniacs, I also tried various cocktails of medications, some natural, some pharmaceutical. They either didn't work consistently or they left me with daytime drowsiness and a mental fog. Eventually, after reading a lot about insomnia, I discovered sleep hygiene. Realized those were all good ideas. That then led me to CBT sleep training methods, which is what I still use today, over a decade now since I first learned them.

My take now is you shouldn't really have to take anything to sleep. Sleep is as natural, normal, and healthy as breathing. And we don't have to take drugs to breathe.

Instead, there's always something else going on that disturbs the sleep. That's what you need to find out and treat. I suspect you may have more going on in your life than just insomnia if your doc has prescribed such a potent cocktail of Rx drugs. Not sure what that is, but if you continue working on those issues, your sleep will tend to improve.

That and good sleep habits of course. Have you ever tried CBT sleep training methods?

I was taking klonopin for 2 weeks and it worked great tbh lol but now im back to smoking weed ☺ and it helps me sleep

My situation is very similar to yours. I took klonopin for 5 years which worked great for my sleep then it stopped working out of the blue. I quit cold turkey which was HORRIFIC! I don't recommend putting yourself through that torture. I reinstated klonopin combined with serroquel also and only did that for a month before I decided to taper myself off everything completely. It took 18 months to come off the klonopin without having serious withdrawals. I'm 4 months drug free and still having trouble sleeping. I too had a reprieve June thru mid-July this summer which was wonderful but then I stopped sleeping again. I use CBT and sleep training and sometimes it helps but when I'm anxious about getting sleep it doesn't. I saw a sleep specialist yesterday and he prescribed Zoloft and Restoril. It didn't work last night. I'm searching for answers as well. It helps to know we're not alone.

Awfully sorry I missed your post Beached, just haven't had any time the last 6 months. Congrats on getting off the klonopin, I know how brutal that can be. I started using guided meditation and that definitely calms me down. Thanks for the replies and really sorry for the unreas0nably late response.