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You need to set a time to get up in the morning. Once set you get up, no matter how long you’ve slept. This is the only way to break the cycle you have set for yourself.
Hi Elena,
I know firsthand what it is like to go for 4-5 days without sleep, been there done that multiple times. When I was going through those times it was just me and my daughter in the house. She was a first year college student and needed all the rest she could get so I could not, actually refused to, bother her with my condition. I think it was near three months before she asked why I looked so bad, the sleeplessness started showing in my face.
Pills, over the counter nor prescription helped at all. The only meds that worked were strong sedatives meant to knock one out, I would get the injections up the street at the Hospital ER and rush home before they took effect. I am in the Philippines, enough money will get whatever you feel you need. The last time I done that has been a couple of years past.
Interacting with the people in this forum went a long way to getting me to where I am today, although admittedly most of it was lurking and reading it helped. I now sleep 6 – 8 hrs per night, mostly towards the 7+ end of that. You can get here too, you just have to want it and work towards it. Every once in a great while I backslide and spend a couple days awake, it is what it is but I am in a better place today because of the good folks here.
I can tell you this, I never received any benefit from sleeping pills. Neither over the counter nor prescription helped me in the slightest. In fact the only times medication ever helped, if you can call it that, was when I was injected with sedatives meant to knock one out immediately. Living in the Philippines I could go to the ER at the Hospital down the street and they would sedate me then it was off to the house before it took effect. I was frequently up 3-4 day stretches then, 5 hrs a night would have been a gift from heaven.
I now sleep 6 to 8 hrs daily with zero meds, you can get there too. You have to want it and work towards that goal. It is easy to give up, to let ones mind keep you in your current place. The choice to move from that place is yours, no one can make it for you.
Looking at the clock is not the issue, its what you do with the information it gives you. I don’t know what you are doing, this is my first post here in a very long time. I do know you must convince yourself looking at the clock has no bearing on the outcome of the night, it is an inanimate object. I am nearing my 60s and frequently arise in the middle of the night to relieve myself, I have just trained myself to notice the time and go back to bad if it is not at least 5 am. I normally get up around 5:30 am being a retired military guy.
No problem.
I woke in the middle of the night feeling as if I was drowning, sat straight up and wide awake. Could not go back to sleep that night. For the next two days other than being exhausted everything was fine until bedtime, when I tried to go to bed I broke into a cold sweat and the fear of dying in the bed overwhelmed me.
I went to see the DR and several tests were run, All showed I had a lot of fluid in my lungs and other parts of my body. To date they have not figured out the underlying reason the fluid built up but almost immediately was able to get it off me using diuretics. I no longer feel as if I am going to drown and all evidence of the fluid problem is gone.
The sleep condition remains.
My “symptoms” when I think about sleeping are as follows;
1. My forearms begin to tingle and sweat profusely but are cool to the touch.
2. I have tinnitus and when bedtime comes the VOLUME goes up.
3. When laying down I feel wide awake but, if I get up I am quickly dead tired again.
4. Only sleep 1-2 hours most times, get up for a few minutes then lay back down and sleep another 1-2 hours.
5. Every 3-4 days will usually get a 4 hour chunk of sleep, feel a lot better on days when this happens.
6. Occasionally have random symptoms thrown in the mix.
Getting a little better over time, can get some sleep every night by simply ignoring the usual symptoms.
I don't believe the medical condition is a factor anymore, I believe I developed an anxiety disorder because of the medical condition.
