Quote Originally Posted by jenn_librarian View Post
This is just getting crazy. I know a lot of it has to do with the fact that I don't get enough exercise during the day, but when I'm awake in the middle of the night like this, it just drives me nuts.

I'm on all kinds of sleep meds (lunesta, seroquel, xanax to relax me, and the doctor is adding another one that needs to be taken with benedryl to work right). I'm just so fed up. I take nothing and I'm awake for DAYS. I take meds, I'm awake, but not for days, just hours until I collapse.

I know it will be better when school starts, but at times like this, it's so frustrating. I've tried every over the counter med I could find, the homeopathic, you name it I've tried it. They don't work. I wonder if part of my issue is the fact that I take antidepressants during the day (plus the abilify and seroquel are antidepressants, but tranquilizers, taken at night).

Frustrated and just TIRED!!!


Join the club....I fall asleep anywhere anytime during the day so it must be interrupting my sleep at night. I have no problem getting to sleep but after 2 hours tops I'm wide awake. Either pain is waking me or just plain no reason , but either way, I'm wide awake , especially if a new moon is around the corner.
I get up and go sit in my lounger and turn the tv on or I read. I bring a blanket to snuggle up in and after an hour or so I fall asleep for a few hours. .
We're having big changes in temps at night now, drops to 4 or 6 degrees and I think it has a lot to do with it. Only a few weeks ago I had the a/c all night and now I have the furnace set for heat in case the house gets colder than 68 .
Watch those benzos, don't stay on that too long...I have a friend who has Alzheimer's because she was on those every night for the last 35 yrs. Needless to say her doctor was a real pill pusher. I make myself as tired as I can during the day and it seems to help. My daughter has the same problem and she looks like a zombie after a sleepless night. Guess you have lots of company, we should start a club for the sleepless...