[Sazzy]

Since I was pregnant in 2017, I first started to experience chronic awakening around 2am and then having trouble going back to sleep. I have tried a variety of sleep aids, lavendar, magnesium, yoga, warm bath, acupuncture. . On really bad nights or when I have an important work meeting the next day, I take melatonin or nyquil. Doctor prescribed zopliclone, but it hasn’t adjusted the wakening.

On good days, it takes about 2 hours to go back to sleep . On bad days, I just cant go back to sleep and i end up staying up from 2am
Anyone else going through this?

[leysentom1]

Hi Sazzy, sadly to say, I know what you are talking about.

How many hours a night are you sleeping?

Is the insomnia chronic, like 365 days a year, or goes it with burst with you?

Where are you from by the way? US, Canada, UK, … ?

Would like to have a chat about it.

Tom

[Martin Reed]

Welcome to the forum, Sazzy. Like most people with insomnia, you have tried many things in an attempt to improve your sleep — but, unfortunately, we wouldn’t actually expect any of them to work.

Sleep aids, lavender, magnesium, yoga, warm baths, melatonin, antihistamines, and acupuncture are not effective treatments for chronic insomnia.

Have you looked into cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)? CBT-I is the best treatment for chronic insomnia because it gets to the root cause of insomnia — the thoughts and behaviors we have and implement in a bid to improve our sleep that actually make sleep more difficult.

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