[Laura0102]

Hello, fellow insomnia warriors!
This is my first post on the forum. I am in my second round of fighting insomnia. I developed insomnia several years ago from stress and a few bad nights that escalated. I went the usual medical route but the antidepressant prescribed to me for sleep caused terrible panic attacks and made the insomnia worse. During the weeks I weaned myself off the meds, I slept 1-3 hours nightly and quit my job because I was in such a bad place emotionally and physically. Then I found the Insomnia Coach podcasts and over another 2-3 months changed my thoughts, attitudes and behaviors that were perpetuating the insomnia and returned to work. The past two years, I felt and slept so well that I believed I could never be affected by insomnia again.

Wrong! A few months ago, I had a serious fall with injuries to an arm and shoulder and a concussion. And of course, my sleep was disrupted by pain and the need to sleep in different positions to accommodate my injuries. This made sleeping with my husband difficult, so I moved into a guest bedroom and slept fairly well at first. As my injuries have started to heal, I have tried to move back to our shared bedroom but found I cannot stay an entire night due to my husband’s snoring. I either fall asleep before him but wake after a couple of hours and then can’t return to sleep or he falls asleep first and then I can’t fall asleep. Plus, the one trip we have taken since my injury, I was awake all night, which propelled me back into full-blown insomnia. I am now struggling to get 4 hours nightly, feel defeated and pessimistic about ever totally putting insomnia behind me and feel that I can no longer travel with my husband due to anxiety about sharing a hotel room. I am turning once again to the services and strategies provided so generously by Martin but friends, if you have ideas for travel and sharing space with a chronic snorer (who is resistant to making changes to his sleep patterns), please share! (And yes, I’ve considered adjoining rooms when traveling, but hope that would be the last resort to take.)

[Martin Reed]

Yikes — sorry to hear about your fall.

I am not a snoring expert, so I can’t offer much there. I can see how that could make sleep a whole lot more difficult, though!

In terms of sleep challenges unconnected to snoring, you started your post by saying that you are fighting insomnia. What might happen if you ended that fight?

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[Laura0102]

Martin, thank you for your quick reply! You caught me using perpetuating language! And I appreciate being called on it. I am working on changing my attitudes toward sleep and getting out of the self-perpetuating cycle. I will change “fighting” to “accepting”.

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