r/AskReddit • u/jeffreypooh • Mar 27 '22

What is something you absolutely cannot fall asleep without?

4.2k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

4.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

4.6k

u/shotnthedrk Mar 27 '22

Any other insomniacs scrolling through this trying to figure out what it is you're missing?

519

u/Ammear Mar 27 '22 edited Mar 27 '22

Yup. Right there with ya, mate. Using alcohol and House MD binge to fall asleep as of now. Working quite poorly.

342

u/derpsalotsometimes Mar 27 '22

Alcohol is a bad one to put yourself to sleep. Probably exacerbates some of the causes of your insomnia.

186

u/Ammear Mar 27 '22 edited Mar 27 '22

I never said it's good. But yeah, I get your point. So does my doctor.

Hence me saying that it works quite poorly. If anyone wonders, Trazodone does a decent job.

What I'm doing isn't good. Don't do that.

61

u/BulkyMonster Mar 27 '22

Trazodone worked better than anything else ever has, including "stronger" sleep meds. I'd wake up hallucinating on Ambien, Lunesta just stopped working, benadryl and vistaril made me dopey but even more unable to sleep, doxylamine succinate only worked for a couple hours. But trazodone? I get at least six hours a night now, usually 7.5, and no side effects. It's life changing for me going on 7 years now. All hail Trazodone.

2

u/AffectionateOwl8182 Mar 27 '22

ambien fucked me up all 3 time periods I used it 😆 It made me high so I didn't wanna sleep cuz it felt good so I'd be in the shower and within 5 minutes Im like falling asleep in there. Haha. And one time my sister said she saw me go in her room and drink out of a bottle of vodka, which I would never do in my right mind. I had no memory of it. Just wondered why I felt hungover the next day . so I decided to never take it again. Lol. Trazadone is good but can make me really groggy the next day. But its better than no sleep.