Has anyone here suffered from Insomina? How do you beat it?

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Having almost an identical issue to yours. It usually happens once a week. Try to go to sleep around 10 and can't fall asleep until 2 and am up at 6 for work. It started around a month ago. It's no fun.

Are you under a lot of stress?

It's so miserable. I take an arse ton of melatonin, and sometimes Xanax along with it. I've tried trazadone, but it wasn't great.

I recently downloaded the Pzizz app. I've tried many other white noise, brain waves, guided meditation, etc., apps, without a ton of success. It may be a fluke, but I fell asleep easily last night with Pzizz (in conjunction with melatonin), and managed to stay asleep. I'm hopeful.

Watch Bob Ross paint. It works!

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am starting to think it has to do with my working out. I never have insomnia on the weekends, and I never workout on the weekend. I work out during the week, which is when I have insomnia. I work out after work, around 5:30-6:00.

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I'm the opposite - I'm more likely to have sleeplessness when I do not work out. I was going to recommend exercise as the first option until I got to this point.

I would say that routine is absolutely vital and breaking routine is your biggest trigger (maybe?).

So, I would recommend that you eat right, continue to get exercise and set a fairly rigid schedule. One option might be to move your workout to the morning. Follow this up by having dinner a little earlier than usual. Shut down most of the lights in the home around 8. Take a meltanonin supplement around 9, then do something that typically results in sleepiness for you (whether that be reading, paperwork, whatever - something that is not necessarily unpleasant, but also not likely to get/keep your mind racing), and then try to retire at the onset of sleepiness from the melatonin - or 10:00p.m. (or earlier, if you're having to get up way early to exercise in the morning).

I can't stress enough that eating correctly, following a schedule, exercise, and getting light levels correct (and I've had success with this even without melatonin supplements, although they clearly work for me) have resulted in my best successes over occasional, but irritating bouts of insomnia in the past - I'm at the tail end of one now that has been going on for about 6 weeks or so. (But this one has been mild by comparison to those in the past.)

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When this first started, I would wake up violently after having fallen asleep taking a big gasp for air and it felt like my heart had stopped, because I had not been breathing.

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While not this severe, this sort of thing is a common trigger for me - I'm ready to go to sleep, happy to go to sleep and actually drift off - and before I get to REM sleep, I wake up to a noise, movement, heck, the sound of my own snoring at times, and I jar awake. That is usually the beginning of a multiple week fight with insomnia. Thank G-d it doesn't happen more than once a year or so.

I constantly struggle with being able to fall asleep. It drives me crazy to lie in bed waiting to fall asleep. The most success I've had is taking some melatonin and reading with just a dim light by the bed. However that doesn't always work.

Honestly for me its all about finding stuff to do to fill the void while everyone else is asleep. Video games, reading, puzzles, play chess online, movies. Just find something that interests you while your awake. I say that because I can't lay in bed not doing anything for hours and hours every night.

Hope you can find something to help you get some sleep.

Ambien, but get in bed when you take it. I shared an Ambien adventure here recently....shite was crazy. Works like a champ as long as you let it work.

Or you can watch golf.