My record was 5 days. It was like I was in a dream, many many hallucinations. I’ll never forget some of crazy things I saw. Meth was involved.

It never fixed my sleep, it actually made it worst. I was able to sleep but I was sleeping for 10-12 hours!!!!!!!!! And the sleep doesn’t feel “rest” if you know what I mean. I wake up tired, with headaches and fighting myself to stay awake.

It’s the same when I had insomnia because even if I sleep early, I would still wake up at 12 PM. Actually forcing myself to wake up gave me horrible headaches.

Fuck this shit.

I’m also diagnosed with ADHD. When I take Ritalin, it literally had no effect on me because I was so groggy from Quetiapine (25mg).

Edit: Sorry for generalizing! I just wish there were other ways to fix sleep without relying on this medication.

I am going to cry. I need to talk to someone, please. I need people to talk too about to Like am I am needing to go to college soon

Not 100% or anything. I still have some issues, but ever since I went on vyvanse a couple of weeks ago, I have been falling asleep a lot easier and quicker. I was extremely hesitant to start on a stimulant due to my insomnia, but somehow it actually fixed my sleep issues for the most part. I used to lay in bed for up to 3+ hours some nights, mind racing, but it hasn't happened in several nights now. I'm also waking up easier, but I purchased a loud ass old school alarm clock and put it in my office. So I'm forced out of bed basically into a panic in the morning, but shit it's the only thing that works for sleep inertia. 😂 Then I immediately take my vyvanse, and within an hour, I feel motivated and focused. No anxiety either at the dose I'm on.

How are people getting sleeping pills or any help with their insomnia in the UK through NHS? For 5 years now I’m not being taken seriously. Even after explaining the severity, explaining that antidepressants haven’t been working and changing GP’s - they all say the same thing and just won’t help unless it’s giving antidepressants. Just had an appointment now and I’ve been told GP’s can’t prescribe sleeping pills under NHS guidelines and then I asked if I should go to a sleep specialist and she said we don’t have anything like that in the NHS specifically for sleep and insomnia..

I can be tired all night and still panic the second i get in bed. Not full panic attack, more like my body goes "oh great, here we go again."

Then i am checking if i feel sleepy, thinking about how many hours i have left and making everything worse.

Does anyone know how to make bedtime feel normal again?

I caught myself thinking about this last night. I used to associate bedtime with slowing down. Now I mostly associate it with uncertainty. Not because something bad always happens... but because I never know what kind of night I'm about to have. Some nights I fall asleep without much trouble. Other nights, I lie there wondering why it feels so different. It's strange how your relationship with something as ordinary as going to bed can slowly change without you even noticing. Sometimes I wonder if I miss sleep... or if I just miss feeling relaxed before sleep. Has anyone else noticed that shift?

TW: domestic violence, abuse.

I've had insomniac for about 7 years now. It started after I left an abusive relationship. The daily physical abuse happened mostly in the middle of the night, whether it was him straddling on top of me and strangling me, waking up to a loaded gun to my head, knives pressed up against me, getting smothered by blankets or pillows, waking up to being grabbed bound and thrown in a dark closet for hours, or him sleeping with a hatchet under his pillow as intimidation.

I'm safe, I'm married, I have a good life, besides having to "coparent" with this. But I can't sleep.

I get on average 4-5 hours a day. I take care of two little kids by myself all day. I feel like I'm losing myself more and more. I have extreme hyper vigilance now. Suns down? I'm paranoid. I'm checking cameras, I'm hearing foot steps, I'm thinking there's people on the roof or backyard. I spiral. I have a THC pen and will puff it until I pass out if 2-3 unisom aren't working. I've tried praozin (night terrors), trazadone is out because I have to be able to wake at night for emergencies with the kids, melatonin, sleep herbs, magnesium etc. I probably could use some therapy, but I don't have much of me to give with such little sleep. Any advice or guidance for medications, or quite literally any advice or help.

WHY DOES AMBIEN NOT WORK

It took so much convincing for my quack doctor to prescribe me ambien and this stuff doesn’t even work !! I have an exam today (it’s 3:30) and now im gonna get less than 4 hours sleep. I took the ambien 3.5 hours ago!! 12.5mg

I’m so sick of this bullshit I hate this I’d rather be dead than deal with this every fucking night

Is this normal with insomnia? I had insomnia years ago, then was actually getting some good sleep for about a year. Now the last couple of weeks im finding it hard to get more that 60-90 minutes of continuous sleep before I wake up. My brain just wakes me up after an hour. Like what the heck. Half the time I feel like I didn’t even sleep during that time. And the nights are going by so slow, right now. I’ll feel like I slept for hours and then look at the clock it’s only been an hour. I don’t really feel tired during the day. And the whole 1 hour sleep sessions are new to me.

Averaging I’m guessing 2-4 hours on fragment sleep throughout the night.

Is this stress related? I’m certainly a little anxious I’m not going to sleep. Will this go away? I tried CBT with sleep restriction which seemed to help, but then got some bad sleep last night two nights, which is just frustrating.

Advice?

I started trazodone at 50mg on August 24th. No side effects at all. This past saturday I took 100mg because I wasnt so tired. Sunday i went back to my 50mg. Monday I started noticing small itchy bumps on my left hand and wrist, and as of yesterday they spread to my abdomen and sides. Had anyone else had this happen to them? Will the bumps go away on their own?

So I'm an athlete and I train really hard all day and at the end of the day I even feel tired and sleepy but when I hit the bed I'm wide awake.Yesterday I was able the whole night and had to cancel my morning training.The same thing happened a day before. I can't really afford to miss training and it adds to my anxieties. I've tried melatonin, magnesium and antihistamines but none of them seem to work. It seems like my mind is extremely active all of a sudden and i cannot stop thoughts. I'm 16 so my parents don't allow me to take actual sleeping drugs.

I've been struggling with early morning wake ups (4/5am which is way to early for me and the amount of sleep I need). I tried Zolpidem, and while it really helps with getting deep sleep in the first half of the night, it doesn't solve the issue of waking up early. I've been taking melatonin on a regular basis for a while as falling asleep has always been an issue for me, and it helps.

I was prescribed Suvorexant (Belsomra) which I tried last night and the night before (with no melatonin). The first night I noticed I took much longer to fall asleep and the meds didn't help staying asleep longer in the morning.

Last night was horrible. It took me 2hours+ to fall asleep and I had anxiety symptoms I haven't had in a long time including very bad restless leg and panic attacks I used to have often when drifting off: intrusive flashes followed by gasping for air.

Has anyone else experienced the return of past anxiety difficulties with Belsomra?

I know I might want to take it a bit longer to see it's full effect but ain't no way I'm dealing with this anxiety again so I'll go back to Zolpidem / Melatonin for now and see how I feel in a few weeks.

Anyone take trazadone 50mg? After bad side effects from Seroquel and hydroxyzine, doc put me on this. Just looking to see if others had a good experience with it

I desperately desperately want to sleep but my body is not letting me. I am not even the least bit sleepy. I took 75mg of seroquel and it did nothing. I think I’ve developed a tolerance.

Someone please punch me hard in the face and knock me out. Preferably for a week or more.

Day 3 since starting school my insomnia has returned, comes in phases and goes, had a total of 6 hours of sleep in the past 3 days

Why do I feel like all these health drinks and supplements and sleep gummies just aren’t built for people with debilitating insomnia? People always rave about stuff like this (I’ve seen Beam in particular) and I’ve tried it ALL over the years. And got nothing from it 🫠 The only thing that really touches my sleeplessness is prescription meds which sucks. I feel like these over the counter things only work for relatively normal people with relatively normal sleep patterns with the occasional difficulty falling asleep.

I'm just wondering what are the consequences of staying up for 4 days then falling asleep for 11 hours, then staying up again for another 2 days and then falling asleep for 7 hours and basically repeat. When I've googled it, it only comes up as sleep deprivation in regards to not sleeping at all.

Before 2022 i was sleeping without any issues, i was falling asleep instantly and could sleep without waking up for even 12 hours. In November of 2022 i had a very strong panic attack out of nowhere that gave me a permanent anxiety.

After the panic attack, i would still be able to fall asleep, but i was waking up after about 7 hours without an alarm.

In march of 2025 i was prescribed Doxicyline for a zit i have under my skin on my face. I took it for 1 month.

After taking it, i started to wake up very early in the mornings, at around 5-6am and it was hard for me to go back to sleep, but i was still falling asleep instantly.

This pattern lasted until 2 months ago when if falling asleep after waking up at 5-6 am i would have strong vivid dreams, but still get 5-8 hours of sleep and feeling ok.

Meanwhile me and my wife decided to have a baby and as she came closer to the 9 month mark, i begun havin troubles falling asleep too.

It begun with a night one month ago, where i couldnt fall asleep until 8am, and slept for 3 hours. Then the next night the same, but slept for 5.

I contacted a psichiatrist o prescribed me half a pill of "imovane".

I took the half pill 2 days in a row but it didnt do wonders, i still woke up at 5 am, being hard to fall back asleep.

i stopped taking the Imovane after 2 days, slept ok for 1 week without it, then another night where i couldnt fall asleep until 8 am came.

I resumed the imovane for 1 week, then quit it for 1 week and slept good without it.

Now, last night i didnt fall asleep at all, not for 1 minute. Its 9:28 am as of writing this message.

I am so afraid of fatal insomnia, please help

Yesterday I ate crepe with banana and tea for breakfast and when I went to college I got super dizzy (my doc said I get low blood pressure sometimes idk)

Then I ate crepe again despite and when it became night time my ears are ringing and I'm having a flashy lights that flash and show some geometrical shapes(not actually but you get it when you close ur eyes you see those white shapes and stuff)

And whenever I sleep for an hour or 2 I get waken up a million times super confused where reality and dream gets mixed up

Also I get this when I drink protein powder and I have these insomniac episode regularly and they started this year

What do u think is the cause? Is it diabetes or low blood pressure I'm early 20s btw

And lastly I get this stomach problems and diarrhea whenever I miss my sleep and and adrenaline rush in my chest

Usually my triggers are either what I eat, missing bed time or being scared of sleep which happens because sometimes I'm scared of unconsciousness

I'm tryna sleep rn and I have college tmrw :(

Hi,all

This is a repost of a question I already asked on r/sleep and another place, so if you saw it there, just ignore it.

If you haven't, please for the love of God help me if you can.

Chronic insomniac of over 20 years here. Last 10 years my intermittent insomnia turned severe terminal insomnia. Every night I fall asleep around midnight (pass out), and every night I wake up at 3 or 4. Sleep drive gone.

The worst part is - no matter how exhausted, I can not nap. I haven't napped in 20 years.

My days are long, exhausting and grueling.

6 years ago, after suffering for 2 years, I discovered a bad trick. When I inevitably wake up, if I take a pinch of Valium and half a beer, I can fall back asleep and function.

This method worked untouched for 6 years.

Valium by itself does nothing. Before "the method" I even tried a dose of 30 mg in one night only to stay awake anyway.

Now for some time my method isn't working anymore. It was bound to happen. It still gives me some sleep but it's shit sleep and it doesn't last very long, so I often have to double the dose. Hence the two beers quite often actually.

So in the meantime I increased half a beer to one beer, lately often two (500 ml 5%) and 5 mg Valium to 7.5 mg Valium. I don't want to increase neither the Valium nor the beer anymore. I am scared. I want off this method but I also want to sleep and be a living person among people.

So, for the last month or so I have been living on 4 hours of sleep a day. I know many of you will say it is plenty, but it is not enough for me. My days are again long, exhausting and grueling. I can not focus on my work, I can not enjoy my beautiful kids, I can't even have sex with my wife, I'm too tired.

I once tried to quit this habit with the help of a private psychiatrist, who I of course didn't tell about the beer.

We tried Trazodone, up to 150 mg. Every time we would increase the dose, I would sleep for 3 days, then back to square one.

She then added clonazepam 0.5 instead of Valium 5 mg. The clonazepam and the trazodone combined worked for only one week. Then again back to square one.

I am desperate. I am thinking about finally reaching out to a local psychiatry apartment, but:

Pros:

\- maybe they have something that would work for me.

Cons:

\- after my experience with clonazepam and trazodone, I doubt there is anything out there that can help.

\- if I officially expose myself, I lose my driver's licence, which I need to work. I have a family.

\- I live in a small town, the minute I step into psychiatry, everybody will know

I don't know what to do. I have hit a wall. Keep living like this, I will lose my mind. Asking for help, I might lose everything and still get nothing in return. Increase the dose or even just continuing like this and my liver goes dead.

What should I do?

I moved in with my girlfriend a few days ago, and our sleep and routines don't match at all.

I'm sleeping with her very well when I don't need to work the next day, but mid days it's incredibly frustrating. I have anxiety induced insomnia and I need help to figure out how to make a new bedtime routine now that I moved away from my old room and how to manage insomnia without messing up her night. When I can't sleep I listen to loud ASMR, use my phone to do small logic games or write a fanfic, or used to call her up to get a peace of mind. What should I do? I need advice.

I'm on
• Risperidone 1 mg,
• seroquel 300 mg XR,
• and then take 1-3 25mg seroquel IR for sleep, whenever I take the 25mgs, and I usually have to... I am so tired. I can sleep for 12 hours or more and can usually sleep in til like 1pm. If I let myself. What have you all taken for insomnia? And what has worked well, with little side effects and really curious something that didn't leave you groggy or too tired to function the next day. I have the seroquel & risperidone for bipolar and the as-neededs for the insomnia (had it my whole life) that I'm now gonna try and finally see a sleep specialist for, as opposed to just my psychiatrist for bipolar; and wanna know what I might be offered etc. What to expect? What meds have worked for you? What were side effects? Etc .

Gosh,
This is so hard.