Discussion How's your sleep going?

[WornOutLife]

You know, having a suicidal/depressed/anxious mind sucks because it's really hard to turn it off.

I sleep about 5-6 hours a day thanks to some sleeping pills. Otherwise, even though I'm in recovery, I would just NEVER sleep! Negative and random thoughts are just non-stopping.

What about you? Can you sleep properly?

 

[NodusTollens]

Sleep sounds just as illusive for you as it does for me. Gotta love sleep aids. Though I do hope your sleep improves!

Sleep, oh what a dream (couldn't resist). I sleep anywhere from 3-6 hours depending on the night. Though most nights if I'm not high I can't fall asleep. No sleeping pills for me, but weed helps a lot.

Good luck on your Recovery.

 

[Zhontafly]

I have big issues with sleep for awhile now. My primary care doctor was giving me benzos and those helped me get a stable amount of sleep for about 3 months, but then he and other doctors cut me off from them, with the excuse of them being addictive. I wasnt addicted and I was willing to take responsibility for it if i became addicted to them but they still refuse. So goes it here with the medical nazis in Germany.

 

[life-eternal]

Ohh nice i wish i had sleeping pills. Do they pretty much knock you out whenever you take them?

For the last 2 months i'd say i stay up until 5-6 am gaming, or on here/reddit. If i try to go to sleep before, i will stay up for hours with cringey thoughts in my mind of my past, shit that makes me want to scream "fuuuuck why did i do that" so i gave up on trying to sleep at a normal hour. Then i wake up at around 2pm and repeat this seemingly endless, retarded cycle i am in

I have big issues with sleep for awhile now. My primary care doctor was giving me benzos and those helped me get a stable amount of sleep for about 3 months, but then he and other doctors cut me off from them, with the excuse of them being addictive. I wasnt addicted and I was willing to take responsibility for it if i became addicted to them but they still refuse. So goes it here with the medical nazis in Germany.

this is the kind of thing that makes me want to move from EU West :/ it's a nanny state with everything you want to do

 

[hoffnungstod]

My sleep is light af. Every tiny noise wakes me up.
The neighbors above me have a dog that snores. Lovely.

 

[WornOutLife]

Ohh nice i wish i had sleeping pills. Do they pretty much knock you out whenever you take them?

For the last 2 months i'd say i stay up until 5-6 am gaming, or on here/reddit. If i try to go to sleep before, i will stay up for hours with cringey thoughts in my mind of my past, shit that makes me want to scream "fuuuuck why did i do that" so i gave up on trying to sleep at a normal hour. Then i wake up at around 2pm and repeat this seemingly endless, retarded cycle i am in

They don't knock me out so fast. After taking them, I gotta wait like an 1 hour for them to put me to sleep. At first, yeah, it felt like Mike Tyson was punching me and knocking me out every time haha but now it's just like "okay, I'll be able to sleep in a while for some hours, as long as it's not a noisy night"

Developing tolerance for whatever pills you take, sucks lol


@hoffnungstod Yeahh my sleep is very light to I really understand what you mean. I admire people who can fall aslepp instantly and snore as if the world didn't exist anymore lol

 

[Amumu]

Catastrophic, between 1 hour and 5 hours generally

 

[Trisolaris]

I sleep only thanks to the antipsychotics I'm taking. Even though I sleep a normal amount of hours, it is very superficial.

 

[Spiral]

I sleep for a decent amount of hours but not on a regular cycle. Sometimes I'm awake for 3 days, and then I sleep for 3 days, my dreams are distressing and usually wake me up. I fell off the wagon and started drinking again now, it helps to knock me out but its a stupid idea and a failure when i worked so hard to quit.

 

[WornOutLife]

I sleep for a decent amount of hours but not on a regular cycle. Sometimes I'm awake for 3 days, and then I sleep for 3 days, my dreams are distressing and usually wake me up. I fell off the wagon and started drinking again now, it helps to knock me out but its a stupid idea and a failure when i worked so hard to quit.

Drinking certainly knocks me out too but then the hangovers are terrible and I can't sleep for days so, I kinda get what you mean lol

 

[ashedout]

Totally agree! I wouldn't get more than an hour or two without sleeping pills. I don't want to become too dependent on them so I try to only take them when I really need to. It's the anxiety that gets me and dreading whatever it is I have to survive the next day. It takes a lot of caffeine and random supplement concoctions to get through a work day semi functional :P

 

[life-eternal]

I sleep for a decent amount of hours but not on a regular cycle. Sometimes I'm awake for 3 days, and then I sleep for 3 days, my dreams are distressing and usually wake me up. I fell off the wagon and started drinking again now, it helps to knock me out but its a stupid idea and a failure when i worked so hard to quit.

Drinking certainly knocks me out too but then the hangovers are terrible and I can't sleep for days so, I kinda get what you mean lol

i feel you guys. as a fellow drunk myself, i know how hard it is to get off alcohol and how much work it is to stay off it. it is the only medication that has worked for me but also the poison that put me where i am today, ironic...

 

[whitefeather]

You know, having a suicidal/depressed/anxious mind sucks because it's really hard to turn it off.

I sleep about 5-6 hours a day thanks to some sleeping pills. Otherwise, even though I'm in recovery, I would just NEVER sleep! Negative and random thoughts are just non-stopping.

What about you? Can you sleep properly?

Only with certain herbs , amino acids, natural hormones

 

[Kat!]

Been reliant on random OTC antihistamines to knock me out but I ran out last night after taking some 75mg of the rest :(
Off of them my sleep has been horrible, takes about an hour to go to bed but even then I wake up randomly.

 

[Soulless Angel]

I used to blame drinking on not being able to sleep, but the last few weeks Ive barely touched a drop and I still don't sleep, so a) im back drinking and b) released sleep is a word that angers me!
My husband claims he doesn't sleep so needs to rest during the day... yet I am the one laying awake listening to th e world into the wee early hours,
I get so tired you would think I would just sleep, but I don't, as soon as that light goes out, my brain switches on, and I just can't sleep, I get an average 4 hours a night but that's broken up through napping,
I can't come downstairs when everyone is sleeping as my husband freaks out if im not in bed next to him.

I was given some liquid medication to help me sleep but it did nothing, was pointless.
I just want one full nights sleep, till then Ill stick to my rum

 

[Shadowrider]

Experienced insomniac here.
Cannot really sleep, or if I do, it does not happen in the right time. Falling asleep after 3 a.m. and waking at noon is quite usual for me.

Interesting what you guys are writing about how alcohol helps you! I don't think I can be called a heavy drinker - max. a few beers max. once a week -, but if I drink, I get so overstimulated that there's no use for me to go to bed before 5 a.m.

 

[Another Day]

Insomnia plain and simple sucks. I've tried prescription sleeping medications mainly being Lunesta with moderate success. Only one prescription drug that has produced a good night sleep is Seroquel. I try to take it about 30 minutes before I sleep because once it kicks I'm pretty much knocked out. The tricky part as with most drugs is the right dosage because with seroquel if you take more than what would work with a lower dose you will feel very sluggish and it also can cause some confusion even though you sleep for 6-8 hours. Proceed with caution because Seroquel is a potent drug.. As far as the street pharmacist well that is whole different conversation but it is nice to have one available.

 

[L I F E T O L O S E]

4 hours. a few days is parceled (2 hours on night/2 hour on morning)

 

[lucacaro]

I've been taking allergy pills every night for like 2 months now just to sleep. Wish I had proper ones to take because I have to take ~4 of these ones for it to work and I get sick and somewhat high from it almost every time.

I just can't sleep - and I overthink shit.

 

[Hurt]

7-8 hours. Wish you all could sleep well

 

[rhonda]

Sleep?? Who sleeps??

 

[ansiedad]

It was my first problem, because of that I started to take bdzs... Lately I was diagnosticated anxiety and depression. I was a month that I was sleep 3 or 0 hours all days.

Bdzs sometimes helps, but not every day. Like tonight are the 4:30 AM and I keep awake... I know that tonight I won't sleep.

 

[life-eternal]

It was my first problem, because of that I started to take bdzs... Lately I was diagnosticated anxiety and depression. I was a month that I was sleep 3 or 0 hours all days.

Bdzs sometimes helps, but not every day. Like tonight are the 4:30 AM and I keep awake... I know that tonight I won't sleep.

same timezone, makes 2 of us lol... wish i had some benzos but i dont think i can take with my current medication

 

[LastFlowers]

Terribly. It's mostly non-existent, and when I do fall asleep, it is not comfortable or long lasting. There is no refreshed or well rested feeling upon waking. Stress and worry about life circumstances leads to more things for the active mind to ruminate about when we climb into bed, often contributing to poor sleep patterns, and then this sleep deficiency feeds back into the reason it began in the first place, a never ending cycle.

 

[ansiedad]

same timezone, makes 2 of us lol... wish i had some benzos but i dont think i can take with my current medication

Haha insomnia doesn't forgive.
I try to left benzos, and this is my actual problem, don't sleep is back.
Maybe my doctor should precribe me this for all my life.
I forget how to sleep.

 

[OpheliasFlowers]

I've been an extremely light sleeper since childhood...doesn't take much to wake me. And I dream A LOT, which I've read can mean you wake a lot (even if you don't realize it) and that's why you remember your dream/s.

Then my sleep really went to hell in the 90s when I needed to take hormone therapy to treat a medical condition. My light sleeping/insomnia went off the charts and has never gotten better.

Then over the years my anxiety has increased, my depression has worsened, I've been living in a very noisy apartment, all of which have affected my sleep. I sleep an hour here, an hour there...never more than a couple hours at a time. And on no kind of schedule, although I've tried to clean up my 'sleep hygiene' in an effort to get better sleep, but it didn't help. And like LastFlowers said - my sleep is not comfortable, nor do I ever wake refreshed or rested. I remember when I was a kid and even as a light sleeper I'd sleep better than now and wake up feeling rested. I long for those days now.

Oh and I take benzos for anxiety. It's a pretty low dose (.05 mg twice a day of clonazepam) but that does nothing to help me sleep, and never has, not even Ativan when I was taking that. I'm scared to try Ambien.

 

[czx85]

My sleep is light af. Every tiny noise wakes me up.
The neighbors above me have a dog that snores. Lovely.

Have you tried earplugs, I used to be b9thered by airplanes so much, but now with earplugs i finally cannot hear them anymore

 

[Another Day]

There is anti histamine called Promethazine which is worth a try and I'm pretty sure you can get the otc version in a tablet but I have only taken the liquid form and let me say that I didn't get this from a CVS. The tab my be crap, I haven't taken it before but it may at least be worth a try. The syrup form is only through prescription and I have super high tolerance but it has worked fairly well. Working nights at the hospital had me trying anything possible because I needed to sleep to handle the pace of working in the intensive care. Probably not to helpful but it's hard to put everything in message that you want to convey.. Had to mix and max quite. But I definitely feel the frustration that comes with sleep deprivation.

 

[Yiyo123]

Mine it's horrible. I take Ambien and 2 other medications and still have trouble sleeping.

 

[stygal]

I have good days or phases when I sleep 6-10 h every time for up to weeks then it drastically shifts and I have weeks with only 2-3 h each night until I'm nearly burnt out.

Mostly it's due to me stressing about a certain thing or just my ongoing flair ups of physical pain.

One good thing is that whenever the bad phase ends the other one starts because of exhaustion...so I never have a huge sleep deficit.