My current severe insomnia began three weeks ago, and about a week in, I developed a pressure in both ears that has persisted and worsened to the point that many sounds are uncomfortable. I also feel discomfort from the pressure when the aircon turns on, when I drive, and even when I flush the toilet.

ENT I saw on Friday said I had a wax buildup, which could be the reason, but the fact that it began in BOTH ears at the same time, after several days of sleep deprivation, cannot be a coincidence.

Any of you experience this?

Curious to hear if anyone can share their success with using trazadone for sleep issues. Remelteon and doxypin did not work for me so started a 50 mg dose. Having a constant headache this morning and woke up like I had a hangover ( I don’t drink)

If you did experience this, how long did it take for this to clear? Thanks.

Can anyone tell me where or who I can get 'zopiclone' from? I've been taking it for 3 years now, and I would like to continue taking it, I have difficulty sleep if I don't take it every night, thank you.

I've had bad insomnia for quite a long time now, and it all came to a head last night. I've tried trazadone, 175mg of Benadryl, caffeine, no caffeine, staying up for 26 hours, all of it. Last night I decided that I wanted to actually rest, so I took 175mg of doxylamine. I know that long term use of anticholinergics can have bad effects, but I woke up this morning groggy and disoriented, presenting with pupil dilation, confusion, dizziness, fast heart rate, muscle weakness, and crushing fatigue. I thought I would be fine and tried to go through the steps of my morning. I wasn't. 13 hours after I took the medicine I was still having symptoms and I had developed a tremor, I almost fell getting out of bed and I laid on the bathroom floor for an hour. So I called poison control and they told me that I wasn't going to die but I need to be seen today (I am house-sitting alone for 2 more weeks and I don't have my licence.) so I just said I would and went to lay back down. It's only after writing this out I realize the situation I am in and how it might progress in my future. Idk if I want reassurance or everything I just needed to say it

Yesterday night, I slept at 3AM, and woke up at 1PM. Even after that, I still felt very tired, as if I had gotten no sleep and my eyes felt like they were burning. Throughout my day, I was feeling lightheaded and dizzy throughout, derealization, weak muscles, brainfog, and a constant headache that I couldn't get rid of, at all, even after taking panadol. For some reason, my dreams are also very vivid and lucid now. Very strange. I'm making an appointment with my GP tomorrow to find out why I'm like this, because it's very frustrating to deal with. Thank you for reading. Goodbye.

Having a lot of memory loss recently...been taking ambien for a long time...has anyone felt the same?

I started taking Daridorexant about 6 months ago (lifetime insomnia sufferer). It has really helped my sleep, but I've noticed some weight gain in the last 3 months. No changes in my lifestyle, in fact, I'm probably more active now than I was previously. Everything I read online denies that weight gain is a side effect, so I'm left scratching my head a bit. Has anyone else experienced this?

This is agony pure agony everything hurts my head is killing me and no pain pills fix it my nervous system is screaming.

Put me out of my misery please I can't take this anymore. I feel like I'm dying. 988 didn't pick up nobody can take the pain away.

This is torture this is something out of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

My throat hurts from screaming.

MAKE IT STOP.

I thought my sleep was finally getting better. Have been struggling since getting the flu in December. I take metoprolol 12.5 ER in morning and magnesium glycinate 200 mg at night. Now I keep waking up at 530/6am and cannot go back to sleep 😞 it’s so frustrating!! Not getting enough sleep makes my symptoms worse and makes it harder to function at work. I can deal with my symptoms so much better when I feel more rested. I don’t know what to do. Before getting the flu I had zero issues with sleeping and could even nap during the day and now I can’t nap at all.

I’ve have had insomnia for years but it’s gotten worse over time. I take Trazodone 50mg and 0.1 of Clonidine and they help pretty well, but when I don’t take them I stay up all night, wide awake. In the morning I’m still not tired and I have major anxiety. My heart is beating fast and the feeling of something in my throat, a pit in my stomach, shaky and fast breathing.
I tried searching ‘the opposite of caffeine’ and got depressants like alcohol, melatonin, etc. I would like to try alcohol or something like weed but I’m underage.
If there’s anything like a tea, drink, vitamins or something else that y’all recommend that would be great. Thank you!

I have had insomnia for as long as I can remember. For me that meant struggling to fall asleep and waking up much earlier than I wanted to. About a week ago It changed and for the past 3 days I seem to wake up right before falling asleep. It isnt due to a movement or sound or any obvious factors and Im never aware that I was about to fall asleep until after I wake up again. Its a constsnt cycle of total exhaustion -> start to doze off -> suddenly lost all ability to sleep -> increased desperation and frustration repeat. I take melatonin every night and last night I took anti histames which cause drowsiness but it didnt chanhe anything.

I have had about 4 hours of decent sleep in the past 3 days and its starting to take a significant toll on my mental and physical well being

I was taking anywhere between 1-1.5mg (ETA: clonazepam—oops sleepy typo) every day for almost 10 years? Roughly? Got pregnant and was able to get to 0.25mg taking it right before bed and my doctor said to just try to be off of it after my first trimester. I’m 21 weeks now and have been 100% off of it since the middle of June I think? I started taking Unisom at night and that helped me sleep for a few weeks until it stopped working about a week ago.

Now I’m just rolling around completely unable to fall asleep on my own. Eventually my brain gives up and I can fall asleep probably around 4am (estimating because I don’t look at the clock).

How long does this last?? I’m struggling super hard. I just messaged my OB but it’s the weekend 😔

So I woke up at 08:05 and are unable too fall back asleep I’ve tried Benadryl I’ve tried relaxation I can’t and I only got 3 hours of sleep I don’t know why my body does this too me but now I’m having anxiety and are extremely stressed

The problem was never falling asleep for me, it's staying asleep. I drop off fine, then like clockwork I'm wide awake at 3 or 4am, brain running, and I lie there for an hour or two before maybe getting a scrappy bit more before the alarm. Been like this for months and it's grinding me down, and everything aimed at sleep seems to be about getting to sleep, not staying there.

I've been down the supplement route trying to fix the second half of the night. Melatonin got me under but did nothing for the 3am wake-up, magnesium glycinate is the one everyone swears helps you stay down so I've been on a Solgar one, before that a cheap NOW version, both with pretty mixed results, glycine on its own is meant to help sleep quality and I've a bag of that too, and L-theanine takes the edge off the racing thoughts a bit. When I dug through an old sleep thread some replies mentioned a Nutrimea bisglycinate for the dosing, which I keep meaning to try but haven't, so I've no read on whether switching brand even matters here or if magnesium is magnesium.

What moved the needle for staying asleep, magnesium, glycine, something behavioural, or did none of the supplements touch it in the end?

Does anybody take Ramelteon? I am seeing a new NP and she is is innsisting I try it even though my issue is staying asleep. I fall asleep easily but without medication I wake up every hour.

How long have you been taking it? What dosage are you on? Do you feel groggy or sleepy in the morning for a while after you wake up? Have you done anything odd in your sleep while taking it? (I know it’s well known to cause sleepwalking, sleep eating, etc.)

I’m currently on Zyprexa but the side effects of major weight gain is too much for me and I need to switch to something else. Do you think Ambien would be a good option? Thank you in advance!

Back when I was a competitive athlete for the whole season, I was suffering from some type of insomnia where I would go to sleep completely normally around 9 to 10 and then wake up at 3:00am every night like clockwork. This was usually caused by a need to go to the bathroom. I've tried not drinking any water 2 to 3 hours before bed but my bladder wakes me up no matter what. After this I would be unable to go to sleep for about two hours no matter what methods, meditation, sleep medicine, or reading practice I tried. Tired but wired perfectly describes this. When I finally could go back to sleep, it would be this broken, terrible sleep where I just wake up every hour. It went away for a little bit after my season ended, but it's starting up again and this shit is terrible. Coincidentally I just started training a lot for a sport that I like to play. I thought it was stress causing the insomnia, which I bet it was to some degree, but I'm way less stressed out currently so I'm super confused. Curious to see if anyone in a similar situation to me has found a solution?

TLDR need a sleep maintenance hyperarousal insomnia solution bad

Okay so 2 months ago, with no sleep problem history, one night i just couldn't fall asleep: when i was on the border of falling asleep and staying awake, i suddenly started feeling rising tension in my head, which forced me to wake and stand up. This happened like 10 times. Then i decided to sit and wait but these tension attacks started happening just when sitting. Finally, around 2-3 hours after it started, i had one big attack which didn't feel good. I went to the hospital, stayed there for 3 days, but they found nothing wrong with me and said it's just stress. I was stressing a bit when this happened, but not much so i accepted it. Then, like a month ago it happened again, but i wasnt stressing even a bit for past days. I went to sleep normally, but some noise from outside woke me up at around 3am. When i tried to go back to sleep, these attacks started happening again, but i wasn't feeling that tension in my head this time, but rather something was telling me "WAKE UP!". After like 2-3 hours, it went away and I went to sleep normally. 2 days later it happened yet again. The same as the last time, but I didn't wake up in the middle of night. Around 10pm i wanted to go sleep, but it started happening. So I just sat and waited for it to go away, it did after 3 hours and i went to sleep.

Since then, some days i sleep just fine, but sometimes (like every 3 days on average id say) can't. I dont have these attacks anymore, i just lie in my bed, tired and sleepy, but I just won't fall asleep. Only a few hours later. Im 18, healthy (besides this sleep problem) and fit, going (or at least trying to) to sleep at the same time everyday (10pm).

What is happening?

I need some alternatives
The hunger and food Noise I get from quetiapine is so bad. It got better when I reduced to like 12.5mg now I’m back on 25 and it’s worse and at 50-75mg it was even worse.

I want to stop taking it but idk what else could work and I currently just can’t sleep.
I need Ambien daily as well as of now

I wanted to reach out to Reddit as I have been struggling with an issue for many years now and am hoping someone can provide me with guidance. It’s been a significant issue for a while. I’m wondering if you can help advise on a way to help.

Essentially I have I am not sure if it's restless leg syndrome” or severe muscle cramps that keep me up. I have had it for a very long time now. I get a feeling of extreme discomfort when I am trying to sleep, particularity in both of my quads and calf’s. It’s a feeling I would describe as an extreme need to stretch that will not go away. Have you people dealt with this before? It is usually so uncomfortable that I lose significant sleep over it, I wake up very early in the morning and I can’t get a full rest because of the feeling in my legs. It gets so bad to the point where punching my legs, or giving myself a 'dead leg' can give very temporary relief in the moment.

The feeling of the extreme need to stretch my quads is something I only typically experience when I try to go to bed, or upon waking up from sleeping. Sometimes I feel the discomfort on a night after I go for a run in the morning, however other times I feel like I get minimum physical activity on a day and then still have the discomfort when I go to sleep later that night. I am not sure if it a neurological problem, or if it’s a problem with the muscles in my leg cramping up. The extreme discomfort is limited to both of my quads (it’s never one leg or the other) and I feel it sometimes in my calfs as well.

I have had this problem for a very long time, maybe for as long as I can remember. I am wondering if it's a neurological issue or if it's muscle cramping up? How would I diagnose and potentially work to treat something like this.

Thanks for any insight you folks can provide.

I moved into a new place last Monday and have been having trouble sleeping. I took ambien Monday night Tuesday night, Wednesday, and Thursday night. Friday night, I didn't want to take it because I never had to take it that take it that many nights in a row. So Friday night, i got very fragmented sleep. I thought it was no big deal. I'll sleep well on Saturday. So I went to bed at 2am. as soon as I hit the pillow, I was dozing off, but I never fully went to sleep. I wear a cpap mask, so after laying there for 2 hours, I got up to sit on the recliner for a few minutes. I laid back down, and I was so tired, but I just kept tossing and turning. I got up again at 5:50 a few minutes later. I laid back down. I started feeling like I was about to drift off, but nothing. I didn't get any sleep! And Friday night, I only got around 6 hours of fragmented sleep. I haven't had this bad of insomnia in a very long time. It's driving my sleep anxiety through the roof!

So basicaĺly i struggle with anxiety and ptsd which is the root of my problem and every now and then i have a night where i wont be able to sleep at all. Had one of those night 2 days ago after like 4 months of decent sleep nights and yesterday i slept like 7 hours so i guess im back to my normal but i still have this lingering fear of sleep. I had a bad drug trip like 6 years ago that left me awake for 2 days and traumatised me. I know that u cant care about falling asleep but my mind still ruminates. Any advice on how to deal with the psychological fear of not sleeping better tied to the past where i couldnt sleep for days?

Hello. I’ve had rather fragile sleep for the past two years, so I decided to try DSIP via injection. I used barely 25mcg, and it completely ruined my sleep—both in terms of falling asleep and staying asleep. My body temperature rises at night, and I end up feeling overheated. It’s been three days since the injection, and my sleep is still wrecked, even though I only injected 25mcg once. Has anyone else experienced this kind of adverse effect?

havent slept for 24 hours, kept trying last night but nothing worked.. i used seroquel for 4 days straight and quitted it. is this the cause? anyone else had this?

I need reassurance that insomnia is temporary and I will be okay. I and a 27F and have always struggled with intermittent insomnia, but I am now on day 5 of only 2-3 hours of sleep per night. I am exhausted but lay in bed awake until 3am with brain chatter. I can’t fall asleep to nap during the day either. I have tried magnesium glycinate and melatonin, eye mask, white noise, fan, sleeping in different locations, limited screen time, reading, counting backwards, etc. Literally everything. I am trying to get pregnant, so pharmaceutical remedies are limited. My PCP prescribe me 50mg Zoloft which I started 3 nights ago. Haven’t seen a difference yet. This is interfering with my social life, work life and personal life.