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    Default I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    This is how my attempt at sleeping nightly routine goes:

    around 12am, turn off lights, try to sleep.

    can't sleep.

    around 1am, get up, go on computer, read, do something to wait until i'm tired enough to sleep.

    between 2-3, put away computer and books, try to sleep

    can't sleep.

    around 3-4am, go back on computer, get up to get a glass of water, watch a boring movie

    between 4-5.....turn off everything and put everything away, try to sleep

    lay awake and eventually fall asleep between 4-6am.

    Should i just lay in bed from 12 until i fall asleep? because I've tried that and while i do fall asleep around 4am instead of 5 or 6...it's freaking boring and torturous and i have nothing to distract my mind (like books internet) so i just go crazy thinking.

    I've tried melatonin- made me dizzy, horrible headaches, nightmares
    Valerian- little to no effect
    Marijuana- trying it tonight, so far.....just makes my body tired and my brain more active.
    Diphenhydramine- knocks me out but i feel like shit the next day and end up just laying in bed and having to take another sleeping pill to go to bed on time

    nothing freaking works.

    tomorrow, i'm just taking a sleeping pill at 11pm, and hopefully i can wake up by 8 and feel okay.

    My hormones are crazy right now, that's definitely causing it
    I'm really sad and I stay up crying.
    I haven't slept alone in over a year, so I'm having major issues with that.

    the only solutions i can think of are taking sleeping pills and finding someone to sleep next to me, but that's not going to happen obvioiusly.

    i freaking hate this

    any help?

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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    Its like you and I are psychic twins....I have this same issue and its like I have all this pent up energy. So I excercise and that doesn't do shit for me but make me a little tired. Even when I go to work, I still don't come home and just pass out. I feel like I'm a my wits end. I take 2 Benadryl and I usually pass out but I don't want to be dependant on it.

    I do the typical, cut everything off and try to sleep. But it seems like my mind is racing. I don't know what's going on and I would like to know what to do too.

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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    I'm not sure how you feel about prescription pills but the only thing that works for me is Xanax or Valium.
    Diphenhydramine sucks, it takes forever to kick in and once it does, it makes my head spin really bad when I lay down.
    Melatonin gives me bad night terrors. Like horrible, bloody, awful gruesome terrors.
    Pot does the same thing to me, I feel like laying or sitting but can't shut my brain off.

    All the crap about taking a hot bath with lavender-scented oils or drinking chamomile is all bogus for me too.

    My friend and roommate is on Ambien CR. He swears by it. He says it's "Changed his life"

    Oh, may I add that Xanax is specifically for "not being able to shut the mind off" It controls whatever chemical in your brain that causes that problem.
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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    me neither. i guess thats why we're all up

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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    I can't sleep either. I've been having trouble getting to sleep and then waking up in time for work for the past week now. I think it's because I have a lot on my mind. I tried drinking Chamonille tea. Usually, I'm asleep by 1am at the latest and up at 9am.

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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    My hormones are crazy right now, that's definitely causing it
    I'm really sad and I stay up crying.
    I haven't slept alone in over a year, so I'm having major issues with that.

    ^^^^
    Fuck it. I did that wrong. Not sure how. But I felt that way about 5 years ago and the Dr. called it a nervous breakdown. I couldn't sleep and would get all stressed out about it and end up crying.
    It also sounds like general depression.
    For me I was in a situation I was unhappy about ( subconsciously). When I got >0< support from my spouse, who thought I should just get over it I left. And got over it. Plus the job I had sucked major ass.
    I did take zoloft for about 3 months and then got a flat effect and got off it.
    Now I try not to stress about staying up. If i get insomnia or just have to stay up I hate it. I mean hate it. But by the end of 48 straight I'm good to go to bed- and can't wait to do it. And I tell myself those old cops have to sometimes stay up the first 48 to try to crack a case- so it's doable.
    Fortunately for me dyphenhydramine works. I take 1/2 a pill if I just need a couple of hours. Also earplugs can help if you're a light sleeper. Or a fan for background noise. I love to read garbage books before bed. Just stuff I'm interested in that's not important reading. Nothing exciting like suspense novels.
    Alot of time my brain just doesn't want to shut off. I can mull stupid shit over for hours. Exercise is pretty dependable.
    Basically I feel your pain. Hope it gets better.

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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    Same here, no sleepy sleepy for me. I ended up in bed really late last night/this morning and ended up sleeping till 5pm. I said I was going to go to bed at a decent hour tonight but that's not happening again. I started cleaning, LOL.

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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    also... when i finally do get to sleep, it's not good quality sleep. i'm up every 2-3 hours and sometimes i just wake right up out of nowhere and am perfectly conscious and can't get back to sleep again for ages. Generally though, if i fall asleep at 4-5, i'll wake up naturally the final time around 11-12. i think the latest i woke up in the past 2 weeks was 2pm, and the earliest was 7am.

    I would try setting my alarm for 8am and just getting up and staying up, but i'd only be able to do that with coffee, and i dont drink/can't drink coffee, so i'd just end up falling asleep anyways.

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    Me, I'm dependent on these prescription pills and quite frankly, I'm liking it.
    Although I heard long term side effects suck.
    In the meantime, once I take them, I'm out within half an hour.

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    Aaaaand this is probably why we all became strippers.


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    ^^Remember it's been proven...it's because we all have low self esteem and were all molested as children.

    OP, you mentioned that just laying in bed is boring because you have nothing to distract your mind, like books, etc. One thing that helped me was to get into a good routine (I know that's hard to do if you're dancing at night). I take a nice shower, lotion up, and get in bed and read for a while. Sometimes I'll have a glass of wine or other drink (while I'm in the bed). I'm usually having to force my eyes to stay open after about 30 minutes.
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    Default Re: I Cant Fucking Sleep.

    I use xanax. My doctor says it's fine. I also have serious anxiety so I have to take 2-3mgs to go to bed, but you'd probably be fine with .5mgs. If you take too much you can get a nasty hangover like effect, and you need to take it when your laying down ready to go to bed because I find if I'm still walking around it doesn't kick in and won't make me wanna go to bed.

    I'm not addicted too it, if I'm tired I can sleep without it and some times like after work I can basically take the whole damn bottle and I'm still wired and can't sleep.

    Talk to your doctor about it.

    As for Ambien, it made me STAY asleep not go asleep, two WAY different things entirely.

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    well.... i fell asleep "early" last night. 3:45 am i think. it's 10am now, but i woke up 15 minutes ago, so i got exactly 6 hours of sleep.

    I *might* look in to prescription drugs. Just because i'm going through so much and it's really hard to cope with everything at once- I DO have really bad anxiety, especially while driving and while out in public in busy places- like the freaking grocery store. I remember a while back i was researching ativan and xanax... i may be able to get a rx for it. It is okay to take xanax and drive if it's prescribed to you? I remember in highschool people would take xanax like a recreational drug and get really screwed up, definitely too screwed up to function, but it's a very small amount it should be fine right?

    I've alreaady tried all the herbal remedies in the book when it comes to my anxiety, as well as the cognitive-behavioral psych therapy. It works when I'm not under as much stress as I am right now, but I think this is the worst i've ever been under, hands down, and nothing works. flower tinctures, herbs, essential oils, teas, homeopathy, meditation... i've tried everything i know that's "natural medicine". It has a *little* effect, but not enough to make the changes necessary for me to feel normal. I'm freaking exhausted.

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    Xanax only makes me screwed up if I drink with it. I think that's where the "recreational" abuse comes from. By itself it just mellows you out a bit. It doesn't prohibit me from driving...actually keeps me from freaking out in heavy traffic. I had stopped taking it for a while because I was afraid of getting addicted (which I didn't), but I did take it before I left for the beach because it's a 6 hour drive in heavy traffic. When I stopped taking it I didn't really notice any withdrawal symptoms.

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    i take xaxan because i suffer from social phobia as anxiety. i hope to get ativan from the dr monday. i have been taking klopin as well. bezo's help me.

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    VegasPrincess just posted another thread about insomnia. I suffer from it too and I totally feel your pain, working nights and then days doesn't help much either. I find it so interesting that so many of us have sleep troubles. Is that why we choose to work nights or is it the late nights that cause the insomnia??



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    ^ It's why I did it. Even in school I suffered massively from the fact I could only go to sleep at like 4am and school started at 7:30. Then I found out I could have a job where I stayed awake until 5am and woke up at noon. HALLELUJAH!

    I tried heaps of sleeping pills, but mainly cutting out 100% of caffeine REALLY fucking helped. It also helped me stay awake later because I got more sleep.

    Now if I'm tired and can't sleep I grab a book and some warm milk with honey.


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    ^^Yeup. I love working nights. Now even in a regular job I like closing shifts.

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