[ramiro]

I have lost this sensation when the insonmia started, but using mirtazapine and sertraline helped something last year, but this year my “sleepiness” is Zero. Never mind is day or night.

I ask to the doctor but he didn't give me an answer, could you share your experience?

thanks,

Ramiro

[Martin Reed]

I missed this post – my apologies. Let me get this clear – do you feel absolutely no sensation of tiredness or drowsiness whatsoever? How much sleep do you typically get each night?

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[PattyD]

Sleep restriction helped me while I was nearing at the end of my summer vacation. No matter how much sleep I got I fixed my self a certain time for me to go to bed and a time to get out of bed in the morning. It's hard and it takes time. You have to keep at it and think positive. Since I have been back to work now it's been a month already, I had to program my brain to wake up earlier. It is taking some time as I was used to get up at 7:00 – 7:30 am. Now it's 5:30. Coming evening wow my sleepyness I had before started coming back. I start to feel sleepy while I was reading or other calm activity. I fall alseep faster most of the time. I open my eyes once during the night sometimes I remember sometimes not of that waking moment. I go right back to sleep. But lateley, I have been waking up 1 hr before my alarm ?? This has never happened to me. Now I try to go to bed a little later. It seems to be working. Waking within 30 minutes before my alarm. Going to bed only when sleepy and not tired only. At the moment, the only relaxing thing I listen too to help me sleep is the sound of rain and thunder, this helped bring back my sleepiness. I sleep maximum 7 hrs, on weekdays 5-6. Not bad also thanks to martin for all the help. Reading on the tablets and computers at night it really disturbs sleep. Now I am working on reading on paper or readers like the kindle is better it doesn't have that annoying bright light.

[Caers]

I would never say, personally, that I like feeling sleepy. But it's pretty much hope I always feel. With my medications I'm either sleepy, or unconscious. Unfortunately, I still wake up several times a night.

Sleep restriction has never worked for me. I'm interested to hear about how others have fared with it

[owl2020]

I've trained myself to go to sleep around 12:30 every night and it seems to work. I almost always fall asleep with 5 to 10 minutes of getting into bed. I feel tired by the time I climb into bed My problem is waking up during the night to go to the bathroom and then getting back to sleep. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I now sleep from 4 to 6 hours almost every night, which is better than 2 years ago when about half the nights I slept about only 2 to 3 hours. I gradually phased out taking a beta blocker blood pressure drug which aggravated my poor ability to sleep and that helped. I take a slow walk at night and finish about 1 and 1/2 hours before I go to bed and I think that helps (I also walk around 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours during the day and go to exercise classes several days a week). I do at lot of other things that may or may not help, like snacking on foods that supposedly help with melatonin production, urinating several minutes before I get into bed (and avoiding fluids for several hours before bedtime), staying awake in a dark bedroom 20 minutes before I climb into bed, paying attention to the overnight temperature to decide on how many blankets to use, how wide the window should be open, whether I should use the fan etc. I even rub Badger Sleep Gel on my face (contains lavender among other things). So I use a mutli-prong attack on insomnia. There is in my opinion no one simple thing that works.

Even with all the stuff I do I don't sleep 7 hours ever and only occasionally 6 hours. Of course what works for me may not work for you so you need to experiment.

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