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Trazadone makes me have heart jitters, so I can’t use it.
If Ambien works for you for half the night, that’s a great blessing. I can only get a couple hours from that, if I can find a way to get the medication at all.
Same with clonazepam. If I can get it at all from anywhere, it works for a couple of hours at best.
Nothing else from any doctor has helped at all. Sometimes I can get an hour or so if someone gives me some pot. It’s legal here, but I’m not really into weed.
15 years is awful. Why is this happening to us?
I too have spent more than a year trying so many rituals, routines, better sleep hygiene and practices, electric brain machines, exercise, making the room as dark as possible, wearing blue blocking glasses, scents/herbs/teas/oils/etc…nothing helps me.
It is incredibly difficult to make myself get up after only 5.5 hours, and when I get up and down every half hour it only wakes me up more.
I am now trying to just stay awake continuously and see if at some point I get tired. I think I got about 45 minutes of sleep late this morning after being up all night…I figured I’d try to see if I could sleep, and I consider myself lucky that I got even 45 minutes.
My doctor has been working with me all year and has nothing else for me to try. Nothing he will give me works (he won’t give me any sleep meds). I have to get sleeping pills across the border in Mexico, and use them as sparingly as possible.
It’s beyond awful.
I try to give myself a pleasant topic to think about or make lists over, like Favorite Star Trek Characters or something.
This only works if I am not too exhausted from poor sleep. If I am going on many hours of wakefulness, my head is too weak to fight off the bad thoughts.
