Insomnia?

[ksar12]

For at least the last three years I've had unexplained sleep issues. It started off as taking hours to fall asleep. I would have to be in bed at 10:00 pm in order to fall asleep by midnight earliest. I would sleep an average amount/quality after I eventually fell asleep. I just couldn't turn my brain off. In the last year or so I've learned to fall asleep quicker. Sometimes it can still take an hour or so but its gotten much better. However, now my quality of sleep is completely shot. I'll either wake up constantly, rolling around or getting up to pee. I have incredibly vivid dreams but don't always remember them as vividly when I wake up. I can be dreaming that I'm at work and wake up to roll over and continue my dream. I'll know that its a dream and its absurd that I could think I'm at work in the middle of the night. I'll even tell myself that but the dreams continue when I fall back asleep. Its gotten to the point that even though I'm getting up at 6:30 I'll wake up way ahead of my alarm.

I've tried everything! Acupuncture, Journalling, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Melatonin, GABA, not using my computer before bed, not doing anything else but sleeping in my bed, dark colored sheets, no caffeine, sleep tea, eating things with tryptophan, sleep lights, other sleep supplements. I even cover my clock so I can't look at it and worry about what time it is. Literally nothing has worked.

[Paderla Anitha, DNB]

Hello and hope you are doing well.

You seem to have chronic insomnia. The first step would be to rule the causes for insomnia like sleep disorders. Next it is treated with both medical and non medical therapy. Medical (sedatives) are given in the temporary initial phase, this is combined with non medical measures like sleep hygiene, relaxation therapy, stimulus control, and sleep restriction which are referred to as cognitive behavioral therapies. As the non medical measures help to restore your sleep rhythm, the sedatives are withdrawn.

Hope this helped and do keep us posted.

[ksar12]

no meds or supplements, just birth control

[margypops]

Are you taking any meds or supplements ?

[arod7777777]

look u just need better habits  im a chronic imsomnia sufferer  i get 2 houers a nigt mabie 3  and iv stayed up 130 houers before  u have mild imsomnia   calm down and play relaxing (NOT LOUD) music and consult ur doctor about meds and listen to what he tell u to do