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Hi Aiva,
I’m experiencing the same thing It almost feels like I’ve lost the ability to sleep all of a sudden, but I have suffered with mental health and anxiety for some time now. I hope you manage to get some relief soon as I know just how tormenting it is.
Kind regards,
Matt
Hi Steve,
How does the sleep restriction program exactly work? The thought of getting out of bed if you can’t sleep in say 20 minutes seems daunting especially if your mind isn’t letting you fall asleep at all. I can imagine it’s even harder when you have to work I had to take a leave of absense because of mine although I’m not sure what’s worse as I’m pretty housebound now because of it and I guess working and being active possibly helps build sleep drive more? I just don’t understand how I can go 6 days with about 1 hour of sleep I mean does that still sound like insomnia to you or something else? Before I would crash out so easily if I didn’t have 1 night of sleep and could easily sleep for even 10 hours at a time. Are you also getting blurred vision? Keep going Steve we can beat this! Would you like to keep in contact through the phone messages? It would be good to support one another if possible?
Hi Steve, did you do anything to get those 4 or 5 hours back? I would kill for that right now as I literally feel as though I’m not sleeping at all perhaps half an hour to an hour of very fragmented sleep. I agree in regards to drugs I really don’t want to go down that route especially with hypnotics and benzos although I am on something for my depression and anxiety unrelated to those specific types. I am now waiting to see Hugh Sellick in London who has personal experience with insomnia and CBTI treatment so fingers crossed. I just prey it’s possible for us to both get enough sleep to feel refreshed and functional again. Where are you from?
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your reply and I hope that’s not the case, but you’re right when something like this happens we tend to think the worse. Although, they didn’t really check me over all that thoroughly just a blood test and an ECG, which both came up okay apparently. That’s true though I’ve been dealing with anxiety and mental health for a while now so perhaps it’s the main culprit. How was you in the beginning were you also not sleeping at all days on end without taking a sleeping med? How is your sleep now are you able to get some hours of natural sleep?
I seem to be getting blurred vision, more depression and irrational/obtrusive thoughts, exhaustion, lack of motivation, altered/worsened digestive system, lower back pain on occasion, tension around the temples, worsened skin conditions. All in all it’s really getting me down and difficult to work on my other mental health issues when I don’t have one of my major anchors atm which is natual 8 hour plus long sleep. Do you know how your insomnia came about? Any potential triggers? I had to take time off work due to this so I understand. I’ll check out the free course if it’s been helping you?
Kind regards,
Matt
Hi Rion,
Not much change at the moment. Are you also literally not able to fall asleep naturally? How many hours are you getting on average?
Matt
Hi Martin,
Thank you for taking the time to respond and for the information. I guess I’m just very concerend as it doesn’t feel like a sleep hygeine problem due to I can go days without sleep I just lie there with my eyes closed still concious throughout the night. I’m really hoping it’s nothing more sinister like neurotoxcity or something? I know I’m jumping to conclusions, but it’s really worrying as before I could fall asleep with relative ease and stay/get back to sleep with no problems also. Have you heard of similar cases who have been successful in getting their sleep back on track?
Kind regards
Matt
Hi Martin,
Thank you for your reply and for the reassurance as it most certaintly is a frightening thing. For the past few weeks I have been going to bed around 11pm – 12pm and getting out at around 7am – 9am. I usually try and wind down to a movie an hour before and then I’ll listen to a podcast or music designed to help with sleep during. At the moment without meds it seems as though I can only get around half an hour to maybe an hour of sleep at around 5am if I’m lucky and with meds potentially 5 or 6 hours of not very restful sleep. I seem to be having very vivid dreams also which I never really had before, well not to this extent. I would say I struggle with both, but maybe falling to sleep more so. Body jerks are also a problem at times and I feel as though I’ve become very sleep deprived and experiencing new and worsened physical symptoms. I really hope that this is down to just anxiety and not something more sinister? Have you heard of similar cases to my own who have managed to get their sleep back? Thank you again for reaching out.
Kind regards
Matt
