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...

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Do you 'fight it'

vividXX
vividXX
I don't ever really have the problem falling asleep. It's staying asleep. This has been a problem for me for about 2 months now since I had a bad experience with MDMA that sent me into a month long period of depression and anxiety. Though the depression and anxiety has worn off the sleep problems haven't.

The problem mostly revolves around when my boyfriend wakes up for work at 5 AM I cannot go back to sleep. This was never an issue before. Other times I will wake up for no reason and sometimes will be able to go back to sleep for 45 minutes to an hour only to be awakened again.

Starting tomorrow I am trying a new plan. If I wake up in the middle of the night I will try to go back to sleep from anywhere from 10-30 minutes but if I feel like it isn't possible I will get up and begin my day regardless to what hour it is. Laying in bed trying to sleep makes me feel restless sad, and anxious. If I get up and not think about it maybe it will relax me and I will begin to feel tired again.

Anyone else try this? Does it work? Does it sound like a bad idea?
deleted_user
deleted_user
apparently this is the 'official' thing to do...don't lay there in bed...at one stage I was awake for months...sleeping for two hous only! I want you to spared that terror! Find your sleep routine asap...there is a darker place beyond what you are experiencing now...stay away from this!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have heard that that method can be pretty successful, but I don't think you should do it regardless of what hour it is. Maybe if you slept for 6 hours or so and can't get to sleep its a good idea, but if youve only slept for a few hours I think you should try to sleep more.

My dad has this box of melatonin pills that are made specifically for people who wake up at night. Its supossed to help you get back to sleep without making you feel groggy, and its natural. :)
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have heard that that method can be pretty successful, but I don't think you should do it regardless of what hour it is. Maybe if you slept for 6 hours or so and can't get to sleep its a good idea, but if youve only slept for a few hours I think you should try to sleep more.

My dad has this box of melatonin pills that are made specifically for people who wake up at night. Its supossed to help you get back to sleep without making you feel groggy, and its natural. :)
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have heard that that method can be pretty successful, but I don't think you should do it regardless of what hour it is. Maybe if you slept for 6 hours or so and can't get to sleep its a good idea, but if youve only slept for a few hours I think you should try to sleep more.

My dad has this box of melatonin pills that are made specifically for people who wake up at night. Its supossed to help you get back to sleep without making you feel groggy, and its natural. :)
deleted_user
deleted_user
You may consider ambien CR - controlled release, so that you get a steady stream of med that doesn't wear off early.

Avoid alcohol before bed. That makes people very wide awake once it wears off.

You may also consider getting up with him at 5 AM and going to bed earlier.

I hope you find a satisfactory solution!
deleted_user
deleted_user
have you thought of different sleeping arrangements?
deleted_user
deleted_user
the answer is not to fight, but to work with it! drugs, counselling, new perspectives on life. your insomnia is trying to tell you, something about issues you have not resolved. i believe the unconscious mind cannot cope with processing something awkward, so it wakes you up to let your conscious mind have a go. your unconscious mind can't handle the issue - you've given it!
vividXX
vividXX
I would like to resort to drugs as the last resort. Ambien has many negative side effects and if the problem doesn't resolve itself in a month or two, THEN i will make a trip to the doctor.
JustShootMeNow
JustShootMeNow
I have been taking generic Ambien (zolpedim) for five or six years. I recently suffered a sudden hearing loss. On top of the hearing loss, noise was making me very sick and very dizzy. I stopped taking the sleeping pills a couple weeks ago. The noise-induced dizziness stopped within a day or two, but I still have the hearing loss and severe tinnitus. They dont know how sleeping pills work, but they think it works on the brain. I believe that the sleeping pills damaged either my audio nerves or the part of my brain that controls hearing. If you have to take medication to sleep, don't take it every night, and don't take it very long.