Giving UP!?!

[Guest [Th...]]

I know healing is non linear and different for everyone, but this insomnia BS is total BS.  I have missed at least 40 nights of zero sleep since August and just had another last night.  I have never had more than 3 hours of non-broken sleep since then and NEVER had 2 nights back-to-back of 3+ hours.  WTF.  I was only on the shit for 11 weeks.  Is something else wrong with me? This has destroyed my life, my family and most likely will cost me my job.  I highly considering reinstating and trying a slow taper, which probably won't work, so I am just screwed and this is the new me?  I can't take this any longer.  Other drugs only work for a day or two so I don't know what to do.  Help.

[[Na...]]

Have you considered trying Trazodone for your sleep. I've read many on here with sleep issues use this and it has helped them tremendously. I am also of the understanding it's not that difficult to taper off. Just a thought.......hope you get some relief soon 

[[Pr...]]

Same!!!! Other drugs only work for one night.  Try (I know this sounds dumb) but going to bed around midnight. I've noticed if I go to bed later I tend to go to sleep better then if I go to bed say 9 or 10 pm

[[al...]]

I think that true zero sleep nights are not as common as we think (unless we stay out of bed while keeping busy all night). I am traveling right now and am experiencing very bad sleeps. It takes hours before I am aware of any sleep each night and then I just get short and shallow REM sleep with wake ups every 30 to 45 minutes. Last night I complained to my wife that I had not slept since we went to bed a few hours prior and she responded that I was snoring and not responding several times since the lights went out. At one point she started snoring and I had to wake her up to silence  her. She insisted that she could not have been sleeping since she was having conscious thoughts right up the time I nudged her. She was wrong.

[[te...]]

I think that true zero sleep nights are not as common as we think (unless we stay out of bed while keeping busy all night). I am traveling right now and am experiencing very bad sleeps. It takes hours before I am aware of any sleep each night and then I just get short and shallow REM sleep with wake ups every 30 to 45 minutes. Last night I complained to my wife that I had not slept since we went to bed a few hours prior and she responded that I was snoring and not responding several times since the lights went out. At one point she started snoring and I had to wake her up to silence  her. She insisted that she could not have been sleeping since she was having conscious thoughts right up the time I nudged her. She was wrong.

 

Can totally relate to this, and I think it happens to many of us more often than we realize. I often feel like i'm not sleeping because I'm thinking, but then a longer period of time goes by. Lately I've been falling asleep on couches, both at home and at my family's house (traveling right now too) and I don't feel like I sleep until it's an actual deep sleep and I wake up and hours have gone by, but I'm sure I'm doing the conscious light sleep thing too. I wonder if we are just more sensitive to this because we are more aware of lack of sleep versus sleep, LOL.

[[Ra...]]

Have you been tested for sleep apnea?

 

You could try some magnesium before going to sleep. I have tried many different medications for my lifelong sleep problems and so far I have gotten best results with a low dose of seroquel. It dose give me a little bit of a hangover but that's better than not sleeping at all. I will stay on seroquel until my benzo withdrawl gets better.