Jesus Christ. 2 trazadone won’t knock you out? That’s wild man... although thinking about the shitty state of our football team would keep anyone awake for days at this point. hope the ambien works for you. Sounds like that’s a miserable way to live...
Anxiety. Got laid off a week before my son was born so dealing with looking for a new job in the age of covid with a newborn and it isn’t ideal.
Laid off, Covid-19, new child. All things certainly make sense as to why you would be anxious. I just hope that you are speaking to a counselor and being treated for your anxiety rather than throwing everything at your insomnia. It would be far better to treat the underlying issue at hand. Good luck brother, I know that it can feel completely overwhelming, but you will get through it. Communication is so important.
I’ve had anxiety and insomnia issues for years. It’s just given the recent state of things it’s gotten worse. I use to go days, like 4-5 days without sleep in my 20’s and then just crash. My roommates would find me asleep on the floor. I have a wonderful doctor now who I basically talk to all the time and has been a huge help. My biggest factor is the only thing that knocks me out is hard alcohol but I’ve had too many issues with it so I don’t mess with it anymore.
yeah if i take trazadone more than three days consecutively it stops working. so i rotate sleep aids. benadryl benadryl unisom unisom nyquil nyquil nyquil trazadone 50mg trazadone 100mg trazadone 100mg repeat
My mother and sister in law just showed up unannounced to stay for a week. They drive over 10 hours without telling us. I’m sure that’s going to help
Yes. Both have been quarantine and they get tested before they come down. They’re very responsible in that aspect. I have no worries in regards to them being cautious. Just the up and “hey here we are” aspect.
Honestly at this point I would welcome that whole heartedly just to feel some normalcy again. It's basically been me and my wife for 4 months and then adding the new guy for the last month. People come and visit and stand at our glass front door and look at him, but no one else has gotten to hold him yet.
You been able to get any exercise? My sleep has been much more fragmented during the pandemic, and I am fairly certain that it’s due to no longer going to the gym. Diet and exercise are so critical in regulating our body’s circadian rhythms, as well as our mood/anxiety. One way to look at our diet is to realize that every molecule in our body comes from the food we eat...every neurotransmitter, cofactor, etc. Improving diet and getting some physical activity to release our dopamine, endorphins, and/or adrenaline is crucial when dealing with anxiety.
Minimal. Yesterday I spoke to my dr about going to the gym. I’ve been doing stuff at home but nothing like I normally do. It’s a huge factor in my anxiety. So my gym here has 128 spots available for reservations for each time slot. I’ve been keeping track and it looks like there’s never more than 30 spots taken during a time block in one of the largest gyms in Houston. I was going to try it out today but with the impromptu in-law visit it threw me off but my dr said she’s fine with me going given the precautions they’re taking. Working in an environment with no precautions has made me alert as fuck and I need to lift some actual weight. I’m talking 30 people in 10,000 sq feet with masks and gloves required at all times.
Ambien isn’t working. I’ve taken 2 so far which is the max my dr told me to take and nothing. She prescribed me the controlled release to help me sleep longer but I think I may need something to knock me out quick.
That's garbage, I stopped wasting time with those and went to 10mg regulars, much better. I doubt I even need them to sleep anymore, I keep stockpiling nonetheless. If your blood pressure is high that could be affecting your sleep as well.
Blood pressure is tip top. I’m going to do a sleep study. My biggest problem is going to sleep and when I do go to sleep the sleep paralysis and night terrors can kick in (hence why I started the thread). On a plus note I’m now able to lucid dream at will if and when I get to that point during a sleep cycle which is pretty cool. I can now fly/jump really far and I can move things in my dream telepathically. Wish there was some way to monitor that stuff
Getting none of that. I’ve taken 12.5 on top of my 2 trazadones, Xanax and Ativan and nothing. Even went and bought some hard alcohol to help put me down and nothing. I slept from 9-10 ish until 11-12 is and am now wide awake. Typically I’d lock myself in a bathroom with a blow dryer turned on high but that’s out the park with the in-laws here.
Fuck MW I’ve taken 3 of the bastards on top of everything else. It sounds like Disney character arguing about wheether to open or not. Typing has become hard
More just annoyed now. Like I’m fucked up but nothing that could cause me to sleep. Lots of double vision
So all that went very well. What’s I’ve gathered is 2 at the same time is the magic number. I’ll fight through 1 and everything else to stay awake. Mild hallucinations. I rememberer seeing Disney cartoon characters and having legit double vision while using my phone. Which was probably the hardest task I had to do. I’m gonna dump all my sleep stuff in here as basically my diary so feel free to do the same or fuck off is not.
Was diagnosed with Exploding Head Syndrome. Add another sleeping disorder to my list. Have had it from a young age, usually manifests itself right as I am about to head into REM. Lately (3-4 times a month for a while now), I experience it mainly when I lucid dream. Last night was one of the worst wake-up calls, sounding like one of those giant lightning strikes and thunder reports that crack your frontyard tree down to its roots. I expected to wake up to a burning tree in the morning. Other times, it presents itself in: myself (or someone that resembles me) yelling garbled speech extremely loud in a threatening manner, a door slamming shut, explosions, gunshots and orchestral sounds.
Lucid dreamed into a theater that I later realized was the Ryman theater, Id never seen the Ryman at the time and recognized it after the fact. Anyway, the theater is full of people and they’re all actively having a lucid dream. It’s a hub and exchange place for simultaneous lucid dreamers. I want to prove this place exists, so I engage a fellow lucid dreamer in conversation. We agree to exchange our identities/contact information so we can contact each other in the waking life to validate the reality of the experience. The person wrote down their contact information and showed it to me. I go to read it and it’s in some Asian language alphabet. The language barrier prohibited the exchange of information. Wild shit. Always thought it would be an interesting experiment to try and get two lucid dreamers (in a controlled environment) to rendezvous While dreaming and exchange information proving their encounter.
Yeah I've only experienced it a few times but it's quite the memorable sensation. Good luck with yours amigo.
that sucks at least you’re getting it taken care of. I used to think apnea was mostly something bigger people had to worry about.
Asked the same thing when I was diagnosed. Predominantly older, larger men. They suspect my insomnia has brought it upon. I say this as I'm in the Culver's drive through
So it’s 2:30 and I’m making coffee. My insurance quit covering my Dayvigo so now I haven’t slept more than a couple hours a night. They put me on Ambien, but that’s just tic tacs and now will cover Lunesta but again it’s nothing. The fact that insurance companies get to dictate our health in this country is insane. *steps off soapbox.
Similar boat but going on a few months since my Cpap was recalled and waiting on the replacement to be sent sometime in the near future. Other thing is a five month old who has started teething. Fun times and lack of sleep!
Fucking hell this shit is getting annoying. I don’t think I’ve slept more than 2-3 hours a night since they took me off my meds. Which is great considering I have a wife, kid and job to all do while not really knowing what I’m doing all the time. I can’t drive anymore. My wife has to take me everywhere cause I got tracers all day like I’m on mushrooms. I’ve messaged my psychiatrist to try and re-petition for my insurance to put me back on the medicine that worked for me. It’s also not great as I’m having to drink again to have to try and knock myself out at night. Fucking bullshit that I’ve got to now try and find some sort of obscene combo of ambien, Lunesta, melatonin and trazadone and wash it all down with a bunch of vodka to sleep a couple of hours a night.
Fucking insurance companies are the fucking worst. And this is just for sleep meds. They do this shit for life saving medications. It’s great how they’re somehow able to just tell doctors to fuck off.