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Struggling with insomnia for 10 months. What's your insomnia experience?

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SalamiQueen23
SalamiQueen23

hey there, so I've been struggling with insomnia for 10 months. There were a lot of nights where I would do 1-3 hours of sleep or no sleep at all. There were days where I would not sleep for 2 days or so and there were times where i was irritable. I would have slight  body aches on my upper arms, on the balls of my feet and on the sides of my legs at times. There were times where I used to be reliant on sleep aids and i quit taking them a while ago. I drank lavendar chamomile tea at times but tonight I didnt take it. I've been dealing with stress a lot during college and it's not all the time but I get stressed often. Even before then I struggled with it and also I used to have food anxiety and things of that nature. What was you guys experience with insomnia? I would like to know and what helped you cope with it and what didnt?

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  • apu91247
    apu91247 SalamiQueen23

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    Once you start taking sleep aids you will get 6 hours sleep. If you taper or quit them you will get 2 or 3 hours sleep until your brain get into normal state.
  • Gareth51625
    Gareth51625 SalamiQueen23

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    I have had insomnia for almost 8 months. Not sure why it started maybe stress a couple of days before triggered it. After a couple of nights of poor sleep I got very anxious and each night onwards I started to dread going to bed, when I did my heart began pounding and I sweated a lot - both of which making it impossible to relax and sleep. I made things worse with the extreme worrying about not sleeping. When I did sleep after tossing and turning for most of the night I would get intense dreams and wake up a few times. I rarely remembered my dreams before having sleep issues, apparently sleep deprivation can give you more intense dream recall. The rare times when I was relaxed I did fall asleep much quicker.

    I think in 8 months I can count on one hand the nights I have got to sleep straight away and stayed asleep all night. All the other nights I have either took a very long time to fall asleep, not had any at all (thankfully since late November I have only had 3 completely sleepless nights) or woken up a few times in the night.

    Unfortunately in February I became reliant on alcohol every night to get to sleep but the sleep quality on it is not great. I had a bit of a break from drinking last month when my doctor gave me some Zopiclone for sleep but I built a tolerance quickly to them. I'm still drinking but I am going to seek help to stop as I have become an alcoholic. It's a bit sad really as before having sleep problems I rarely drank alcohol.

  • Insomniac18
    Insomniac18 SalamiQueen23

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    Hey there I have the worst insomnia experience ever I'm literally losing it it all started before Xmas Eve when I couldn't get any kind of sleep and the next day I tried to sleep I just couldn't and I went one week with no sleep at all until I rushed to the e.r where they ran blood tests which came back negative for everything.i can't take sleeping aids because I'm afraid of the effects now I only get sleep at 5am until 8 or 9 my head is so heavy I'm so tired

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