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I was very ill yesterday,I felt exhausted,tired but couldn’t sleep,and I almost felt like I don’t feel legs anymore.
A friend of my took me to local doctor and I had high blood pressure,not normal for me,since I always have low blood pressure.
Me and doctor spoke about all what I went through my life.
She said that insomnia is kind of my secondary problem,and it won’t go away until I don’t find somehow a way to beat it,no doctor can help me unless I make some changes in my life.Hmm weird.
I read a lot about insomnia and because I work in rotating shifts,one thing which came to my mind was shiftwork sleep disorder.But then again I couldn’t sleep when I was off-work for more then a year,which is awkward.Seems like the brain is somehow stuck in some weird circadian disorder maybe.
She suggested me to try hypnosis.Anyone tried it,did it help?
Btw thx for your support guys.I should go tonight to work but I took day off,I feel very exhausted and tired,with lack of concentration and almost like in some dream state,like a drunk person.
I went to hospital to ask my psychiatrist about this condition cuz I was affraid I got psychosis and she told me no,i’ts some dissociative symptoms,like nothing so serious.
I am so afraid of getting psychosis from insomnia because some psychiatrist told me it can sadly happen,and I worry about it.
Come on.If this guy was not sleeping for ten days,he would have brain damage, permanent psychosis and hallucinations.His body could not handle it,he would have many symptoms.
He probably sleeps but he is not aware of.I read much about people struggling with insomnia,not sleeping for 10 days is not possible unless he suffers from FFI.
I really don’t need to proove you anything.
I told you,I’ve become constantly ill since I got chronic insomnia,so I don’t need wikipedia,I talk about facts.
Never been ill,had flue once in life maybe,never got infections until now.
And it is not one statement that crhonic insomnia pushes to body to it’s limit to the point where a person gets serious heart and lung problems,diabetes,hormonal issues.
Now you will even tell me that chronic insomnia can’t lead to psychosis,which many of psychiatrist told me it can.
Because I live in poor country and small city,I can’t find CBT-I therapist.
Is there theory that hypnosis can help?I could try it but travel like 100 miles to even try that which is only thing left for me to try.
Is there some online course and a book about it,so I can be my own therapist?
I talked to like 20 psychatrist they told me there is no magic pill,and no help,the only help is giving strong typical antipsychotics and I’m trying to avoid that,because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life lying in bed.
Man.I never been sick in my life then now.
I had flue once in life,now with insomnia all hell broke loose.
I’m really not in the mood to prove you anything,because,I know the best my body,and I told you I never been sick in my whole life until I got insomnia.
Ofc sadly it is chronic,because for 4 years I can not sleep at all.I even stopped taking sleeping pills but ended in hospital with 96 h without sleep and got thorazine i.m. which did nothing to me.
As for what insomnia can do to the body,read the following and it is sadly damn true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation
The worse things for me is digestion problems,nausea,worst headaches in my life,serious mood swings (from anger,frustration to depression,anxiety and crying),tiredness,breathing problems with lungs,and I never smoke a cig in my life and now even allergy and paradentosis.
Insomnia is just tearing me apart and I seem can not do nothing about it sxcept comit suicide as the only solution to this agony 🙁
Dear friend,do you go to work?
I have serious responsable job and struggling with insomnia is mission impossible to me.
I sent all the reports for varous neorologists and psychiatrists to Croatia to sleep clinic to see if there is any help if not,I am affraid the first solution is to quit job.
Even after that I’m still convinced that sleep won’t come back but psychiatrist disagree because it never returned even when I was off-work for more then a year although I took a.d. back then.
Now none of the antidepressants work to make me fall asleep,and psychatrist is thinking to give m strong typical antipsychotics even I am not psychotic just to save me to have serious issues with health.
But that is not a life,with meds like that you have what we call a life of a plant you are basically tied to bed,and even lower doses make me feel like I’m drunk,so that is not solution for me,and there is chance I can go to job like that and have conecentration normally.
I upped the dose of mogadon to 10 mg to see if it will help,if not I will up the dose of clonopin to maybe 1.5 mg and wait for response from Croatia and sleep clinic.
But reading all this post makes me cry a lot,as I can see rarely someone cured the chronic insomnia.
I wish I could only know the reason wat got me to this stage,then mybe it would be easy to work with therapist,now when all reports are OK,seems the problem is either shit work sleep disorder,my hipersensibility or some perament damage to neuroreceptors from giving varoius meds.
I will suggest to my psychiarist to take me off all od the meds, but that’s double ended sword,to see if the natural sleep will ever return,Tried that one and I ended with 4 nights/days with not even 5 minutes of sleep after quiting Zoloft.
The one thing which is not reasonable to me is that natural sleep didn’t come back even after a period over 1 year when I didn’t work,and I change place if living,change bed,chance city,country nothig helped.
So I really don’t kno what to try anymore,what is left is acupuncunture,homeopathy and hypnosis.
You probably read,if you read all about sleep,and sleep deprivation that chronic sleep deprivation lowers immune system,no wonder I am constantly ill.
I work in rotating shifts,I do hope you know what that means.
Sleep is very important in regenerating cells,and eliminating toxins,which obviously doesn’t happen to me.
The problem is that I can not even sleep over day to miss the sleep I didn’t have over night and seems to me I am stuck in vicious circle.
