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middle of the night insomnia again - 2 to 3am wake up

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ru58350
ru58350

This is immensely frustrating.  For the past 6-7 months, my sleeping patterns have been erratic. I thought I was back to normal sleeping patterns recently as the last couple of months have been better and getting more sleep but now the last 8 nights I wake up between 2 and 3am after just a couple of hours. I notice the first emotion/feeling I have is one of slight panic as I check the time to figure "oh not again." Then I would worry why this is happening and stress about the long term implications if this continues, worry about how long this will continue etc. It's now more than an hour since I've been up, trying my best to go back to sleep and it's just not happening as I do not feel sleepy/tired at all. And no other symptoms either - no pain or anything and I don't feel all that tired. The urination bouts that I was having happens occasionally but that too has eased. 

I'm sceptical about any caffeine link because when I was sleeping fine just a few weeks ago, I was having my usual coffee/tea intake during the day and even a cup of tea before bed and having no issues.  Now I've even cut out the green tea and just having red bush and peppermint tea (which has no caffeine) and still waking up after a couple of hours. 

I do have some things on my mind that is bothering me but these are more or less the same issues that have been effecting me for a long time, like years (the erratic sleeping patterns have only been an issue for the last 6-7 months now).

I guess why I'm confused though is why this would be happening now when I've had the same anxieties and worries for many years and never had an issue with my sleep until these past 6-7 months.  I've got a sleep app and I've just been listening to my sleep sounds. There's quite a bit of snoring there so it indicates that I'm sleeping deeply during the 2 hours of sleep that I am getting but then something is obviously waking up for me to be wide awake and not be able to go back to sleep for a long time.

Just wondering if any of you are or have had similar issues?  

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  • mark27155
    mark27155 ru58350

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    Try a zolpidem sublingual (Sublinox in Canada, Edluar in USA) for middle of the night insomnia.
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