I need some help (gravol)

[veronicaalex13]

For about 7 years now i have been taking 2 gravol to sleep at nights, actually for the last half year i have cut it back to 1 and a half gravol. I need some help curbing this. I plan to only take 1 tonight for about 6 months then one take half of one and eventually stop. I cannot sleep :( i have major panic attacks about sleeping if i think about what tonight will bring, i lay in bed wide awake until the morning usually in tears because i just cannot sleep. Its terrible, by morning my throat hurts my eyes are dry i cannot function and then when night falls i do it all over again.

I avoid caffiene past 12 noon,
I practice yoga
I exercise

I just cant sleep without an aid. I have tried melatonin which i like, i usually take half a small capsule right beofre bed.

I jjust got all my blood tests back and was checked out by my doc and everything came back 100% normal, i need some advice on how to quit the gravol and get a good nights sleep. However i do like my plan of cutting back rather then cold turkey,

I am a non smoker, a non drinker , and the only drugs i use are gravol.

[Jinx_777]

i could be wrong, but i think melatonin needs to be taken earlier than 'right before bedtime'.  i agree with the poster above, seek the help of a doctor because you obsessing about not sleeping is keeping you from sleeping and i will guess you obsess over it quite a bit during the day as well.  maybe a prescribed anti depressant will help you more than anything else.

[AnnieBrooke]

If you have no reason to need the Gravol physically, it is probably time to see a therapist.  What you are describing, the panic and the tears and the worry in advance, is all mental/emotional, and probably what causes you to reach as a knee-jerk reaction for the drugs and to assume you must have them.  An addictive personality is why some people go for drugs (or shopping, overeating, drinking, smoking...) and if that is the problem, they won't let go of the crutch that drugs provide until they work on the issues of having an addictive personality.