Sleep getting worse again at 5.5 months

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Oh no! I'm so terrified! The one symptom that had gotten much better is deteriorating.

I have been able to nap and sleep 8 hours for a couple months now and it's helped me feel better. This week suddenly I can't nap anymore and I'm waking up with heavy cortisol rushes again early in the morning.

How can this symptom be going backwards?

Please help me understand. Has this happened to anyone?

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Unfortunately withdrawal isn't linear and the symptoms come in waves. I'm sorry insomnia is back for you. This has happened to me too. You will be able to sleep again.

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Same thing happened to me. At 5.5 months I started having nice calm mornings for a few weeks, then it got crappy again. It's discouraging for sure but it will get better again.

[Guest [Le...]]

Yep, I'm joining the chorus, too - my sleep slowly improved after I jumped, and then months later I had full-blown insomnia again.

 

Starting a month ago, and without warning, I could suddenly go back to sleep when I woke up too early, and continue sleeping for another three or four hours; then a week ago I miraculously started being able to nap again.

 

The path is bizarrely circuitous, and I had simply given up hope so many times, but I'm relieved that the puzzle seems to be piecing itself back together again. I'm thirteen months off.

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Yep, I'm joining the chorus, too - my sleep slowly improved after I jumped, and then months later I had full-blown insomnia again.

 

Starting a month ago, and without warning, I could suddenly go back to sleep when I woke up too early, and continue sleeping for another three or four hours; then a week ago I miraculously started being able to nap again.

 

The path is bizarrely circuitous, and I had simply given up hope so many times, but I'm relieved that the puzzle seems to be piecing itself back together again. I'm thirteen months off.

 

I second that notion my insomnia came back a month ago after being gone fore months.  Very odd journey it is recovering from benzodiazepines, to say the least.  The only thing to do is accept it all and let go for the bumpy ride until it passes.

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Oh no! I'm so terrified! The one symptom that had gotten much better is deteriorating.

I have been able to nap and sleep 8 hours for a couple months now and it's helped me feel better. This week suddenly I can't nap anymore and I'm waking up with heavy cortisol rushes again early in the morning.

How can this symptom be going backwards?

Please help me understand. Has this happened to anyone?

 

ggbtd.... so sorry your insomnia has returned.  Insomnia is so hard.  I mean everything is hard but without rest, everything else seems so amplified and agonizing. 

 

I am in bad insomnia right now.  My insomnia has waxed and waned through the last 4.4 months since jumping.  Some nights have had 0 sleep, others, I've had 5 hours of sleep.  I went 3 weeks once with 5-6 hours per night and I felt so revived.  I noticed you mentioned waking with heavy cortisol rushes.

 

This is something I haven't had for a while.  The cortisol rushes I experienced when waking up (provided I had slept) haven't been prominent since the 3rd week of May.

 

So, in my experience insomnia does wax and wane just like all the other symptoms.

 

-RST