How far along am I?

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I know that WD is not linear and varies by person, but can someone give me an estimate of when they think my insomnia will improve. I jumped about 6 weeks ago, and I honestly thought I would never get better. The good news is that most of my symptoms are slowly, but surely fading. But I'm extremely concerned that I'm permanently damaged when it comes to getting sleep. I didn't sleep well during my 6 month taper (averaged about 3 to 4 hours of broken sleep a day), but then my sleep went totally to shit after I jumped. I literally didn't sleep for 6 straight days, and I mean I didn't even nod off for a minute. Since then, I've only been averaging maybe 2 hours of sleep a day. I know that's technically improvement, but not much at all especially considering the fact I didn't sleep much during my taper. I'm still very symptomatic, but everything seems to be improving way faster than my sleep. The windows and waves have even stopped for the most part, I just can't sleep. I feel like I have permanent damage and need to go see a sleep doctor, but I promised myself I would never get addicted to anything ever again. Was sleep the last thing that improved for you? When did you regain a semi normal sleep cycle? Thank you.

[Guest [ba...]]

I think (aka a wild guess) that you're about halfway there.  I also slept like sh*t when I jumped, but I was beginning to approach normal sleep (for me) by the end of my third month.  Note that 'normal' (for me) isn't very much sleep.  My normal sleep is only about 5 hours (6 on a good night; 3-4 on a bad night).  I was prescribed benzos solely for sleep.  That's what the sleep doctor did for me.

 

My sleep was probably about 70-80% of (my) normal by the end of month #3.  The most valuable lesson that I learned throughout my insomnia ordeal was to accept whatever sleep that I got, and to not fret over it.  Fretting only made it worse.