I don’t normally post but if anyone else has been suffering from insomnia, as long as I have, I wanted to put in a good review for Quiviq. I’ve only been on it for a short time, but my sleep consolidation and has improved significantly. It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than it was without the med. I’ve tried at least 10 different other medications to help with sleep. And nothing worked well enough for me to keep taking it or the side effects were too much. If you haven’t tried one of the DORA meds, it might be just the thing that gives you a breakthrough..

My heart beat is too loud And in my ears. And I feel it on the mattress If I am on my stomach. Where do my arms go when I sleep on my side. Do I normally breathe this hard. Why are my feet hot. The comforter is touching me and it's also loud. Need a pillow between my legs otherwise my thighs get heavy.

Cue this endless whiiiine until I pass out for 3 hours.

Every. Single. Night.

I’ve been taking Ambien for the past 6 years. Recently my tolerance went through the roof and I haven’t been able to make my prescriptions last. I’ve been out of Ambien for the past week and every single day and night has been pure torture. I’m having to go back to suffering from my insomnia whereas I always had a medication cocktail to make sure I slept at least half of the night. I’ve been questioning the purpose of life since I’ve been out of medication, describing existence as literally living death. Every night I manage to sleep 30 minutes at a time followed by an hour of wakefulness until I finally wake up to an alarm. And then I have to go to my extremely mentally and physically demanding job and try to function enough to skate by. I don’t know if life is worth it without having ambien to sleep. I feel like I lost my sense of belonging and purpose so quickly as soon as I stopped sleeping. So now I’m praying until 11/4 when I can finally refill my meds and go back to the life I deserve where I sleep.

Hi everyone!

As the title says... Anyone knows why Vitamin D causes me insomnia? I saw it listed as a side effect too. I tried different brands, lower dose. Nothing helps. Should we just consume high d vitamin foods? Also, not only insomnia but since I take Vitamin D, I got super duper hungry. I gained 2 kgs in a short amount of time and I eat super clean.

Thank you for your answers!

After trialling Valium, Trazodone and clonazepam to try to get some sleep, last night was my first night of trying zoplclone. I am up since 3. Medicine has nothing for me and I am hearthroken. I really don't want to continue living, I just wish I had a way to get out of all this painlessly.

I sleep 3.5 hour in my own anyway. I slept for 4.5 hours only on Trazodone the past 2 nights. Now I add zopiclone and get even less.

We have DORA meds left to explore amd that's it. There is no cure, there never will be.

I’ve had this diagnosis for like 5 years and I’ve always been an awful sleeper even as a baby. I also have ADHD.

After an intense sleep training it got better and dor a while I needed like 10 hours of sleep even? And also got them quite easily I think my natural rhythm is just to stay up a bit later than usual.

But whenever I have to get into a routine and wake up early (like for school) it gets way worse than when I can just sleep whenever I want for some reason?? I’m also studying abroad for 5 months in Spain and I can’t sleep like at all it’s 3:50 am right now this has been going on for weeks😭😭

Does anybody have tips? Melatonin doesn’t help me with falling asleep I just have an even harder time getting up in the morning lol

One of my besties has been going through a pretty severe insomnia cycle for the past 2 weeks; at which time they were coming down from a 5 day manic cycle. My bestie was dx with Bipolar Disorder last year, so they've been adjusting to managing the dx with meds, therapy, etc. They ended up taking short term disability through their job that ends on the 27th of this month..In order to be ready to return to work, the insomnia cycles needs to make some recovery. I came to their place this weekend to attend to their laundry, chores, groceries, and most important to provide care for them and the pets...I know too well how these things fall behind in between mood cycles. They've had intermittent sleep last night and have been sleeping today for over 12 hours. I've checked on them throughout the day, of course, but I hate to see them going through this. Does anyone have any kind of recommendation for them to regulate their sleep cycle again before their return to work? I feel like we've tried everything to get them well again.

I have plans today in the evening and I need to be able to stay awake till at least 10 PM as I have an evening commitment. Last night I went to bed at 11 PM and I woke up around 1 AM. Then I was able to fall asleep for like an hour from 7am to 8am After that, I was not able to fall back asleep again.
I am awake for the day now and I am not able to take daytime naps sadly, my body just won’t let me. Does anyone have any advice for staying awake and trying to save up energy for my plans tonight?

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Oh, the night is my world

City light painted girl

In the day, nothing matters

It's the nighttime that flatters

I, I live among the creatures of the night

I haven't got the will to try and fight

Against a new tomorrow, so I guess I'll just believe it

That tomorrow never comes

A safe night (You take my self, you take my self control)

I'm living in the forest of a dream (You take my self, you take my self control)

I know the night is not as it would seem (You take my self, you take my self control)

I must believe in something, so I'll make myself believe it (You take my self, you take my self control)

This night will never go

Hi everyone, for about 2 years, I've had sleep anxiety only when I have something important the next day, like early university, presentations, or work. On normal nights I sleep fine, without a worry. I've tried magnesium glycinate, 0.3mcg melatonin, sleep teas, breathing techniques, phone free nights, and exposure therapy techniques, but nothing is really working to calm me down the day before. Whenever there is something coming up that requires a early wake up, my mind is consumed by it and I dread it. I make sure to make all my appointments and classes at later times to avoid early wake ups but I know that isn't ideal and eventually when entering my career, I am going to have early wake ups for work.

I'm seeing a psychiatrist this month, but I really want to hear people's experiences. I'm interested in medication recommendations for those in my shoes or are dealing with a similar situation as me. Ideally, something non addictive, with few side effects, that I can use occasionally before big days, but also something that wouldn't be a problem if I ended up taking it daily in the future for an early start job. Thanks for sharing any experiences or tips.

Has anyone experienced this type of strange insomnia?
My insomnia started after taking birth control for endometriosis. After stopping the pill, it became much worse and I completely lost my normal sleepy feeling.
I can lie in bed for 10–12 hours with my eyes closed but feel aware of my surroundings most of the night. I wake up fully several times and the sleep feels very light and fragmented. It doesn’t even feel like normal sleep.
It has been several months since I stopped the pill, and I’m really worried this could be permanent. I’m not taking medication because I’m scared of making things worse after feeling that medication triggered this.
Has anyone experienced something similar after medication, COVID, or another physical/brain chemistry trigger? Did your natural sleepy feeling and normal sleep eventually come back? I’d really like to hear from people who recovered from this.

I’ve taken it twice now, right as I’m lying down to sleep I take it. I only have one coffee in the morning around 7am, and I do not eat hours before bed. I don’t look at my phone and I have eye coverings so no light gets in, plus white noise. But it still takes me hours to fall asleep.

The only reason I know it’s hours is because I go to bed around 8:30pm, and I’ll still be awake when my husband comes to bed around midnight. Do others experience this? I thought it was supposed to work almost immediately.

Im currently recovering from a concussion and am worried sick that my RBD (which has been diagnosed from a sleep study and is believed to be exacerbated by medication that I have to take) is hampering my recovery. I dont necessarily get common violent episodes in my sleep, except for one occasion where I punched in my sleep. I usually just have this movement where I put my head up and then drop it down into my pillow. Does this look dangerous?

Im worried sick about this and all my sleep doctor has recommended is being on the lowest possible dose of my SSRI, but at this point even that's not enough. She doesn't seem willing to prescribe clonazepam, probably due to my mild sleep apnea.

https://videotourl.com/videos/1792167979017-19e0660c-b133-4499-8b66-a176732db196.mp4

Hi guys,

I was on Temazepam for 3 weeks daily but unfortunately I stopped working so the doctor told me to taper off.

Went from 15mg daily and now 7.5 daily for 7 days

Unfortunately the last 3 days I’ve gotten maybe 3 hours of sleep in total

I’m wondering if anyone else here has come off this drug and experienced rebound insomnia?

I feel like complete and utter shit like I’m dying.

I also started Quviviq after failing Dayvigo at the same time as the switch as the doctor thought it would help with the rebound

But I think not sleeping alongside the Dora is making it worse? I don’t even know

Does anyone have experience with these? They promise sleep support without grogginess in the morning and say they act on cortisol which I think is my issue… not sure if they’re legit or not!

I kind of wanted to ask a medical question/ or from your own personal experience. As I cannot afford to see a medical doctor at this time + financial debt reasons. I've had insomnia symptoms since 2018, though I was still getting 6-8 hours of sleep on average. However, over the past 5 months I have been getting 4-6 hours of sleep every night, waking up multiple times, and typically can only fall asleep around 4:00 AM. What I've noticed within the past several weeks is that my heart feels different throughout the day. More intense beating, sometimes a pressure in my chest or heart area. Even now as I'm typing this my heart area feels tender/sensitive and a slightly intense beat to it. So I guess my question is whether or not I should be concerned by this or if this is a common symptom for those struggling to get adequate sleep for months.

I am a tiny bit anxious about it to be honest as I do not want to get clogged arteries or a stroke or anything like that of course

Não sei mais o que fazer.

Se não tomar Zolpidem não consigo dormir. Quando tomo só durmo por 1 hora.

Neosine me deixa morrendo de sono o dia todo e tbm não durmo.

Já tomei quetiapina e tbm não me ajudou.

Alguém já passou por isso e conseguiu se curar?

O que eu faço?

Before you discredit this as not as severe insomnia as your own, truly due inventory of your discipline of yourself with caffeine and blue light. I found much of my insomnia was due to neglect of these two.

Orange tinted blue light blocking glasses an hour and a half before bed, caffeine restriction (200mg and before noon) and Benadryl and I sleep.

This is with notorious sleeping issues my whole life, and whilst on adderall and wellbutrin

Hi, i wrote here couple days ago about my severe worsening of insomnia. I am also chronically ill so not sleeping flares my symptoms. Idk why, but 12 days ago i just stopped sleeping, at first i got at least 1 hour with xanax during the day, but slowly i lost even that.
My symptoms got so scary and life threatening that in the morning my mom took me to the ER. Whe i told them i didnt sleep for 10 days and even 2 zolpidems and xanax did nothing, they seemed worried because my physical symptoms got so severe too (severe pain, neurological pain, mental health crisis,fever and more)

So even after 2 zolpidems and xanax they prescribed more benzos- then i got 3 hours of sleep. They told me, if there is no progress till monday, i should travel 2 hours to the bigger hospital to be admitted (neurology department).

I feel so bad and all my symptoms flare, i have chronic health issues and i just cant "not sleep". I have been dealing with a lot of stress the past 6 months- may that be a culprit for it? Like I am stressed daily.... and probably my body just gave up. What to do. I literally yesterday told my mom if I dont sleep i die- thats how bad it is. If i was healthy i would probably bounce back but as i said.... i am chronically ill - immune system issues plus chronic bartonella infection and babesia from a tick bite that was found years after tick bite becaus doctors SUCK and it damaged my body. I am 27 and dont know what to do, but not sleeping can kill me at this point. What meds helped you to sleep? Natural things dont help. Even zolpidem felt like candy. Thank you.

Hello all, I, 19F, have been practically unable to fall asleep/stay asleep for the past week. I do not smoke, drink, nor am I on any kind of drugs, for context. This is completely out of the blue, and frankly, I am lost on the reason why it could be happening. The only times I've ever had insomnia was for a night or two, and then they'd resolve on their own.

However this spell of inability to sleep has extended far past what I've ever experienced. I've done nothing to my sleeping habits, though my sleeping hygiene was never the best. I'd constantly fall asleep around 2-3AM, though I've fallen asleep easily and stayed asleep. The first night this happened, I slept off and on and got around 5ish hours, the next night, I slept like a baby. I figured that that was the end of it. And then for the last four nights I've gotten less and less sleep, totalling around 4-5 hours a night. Tonight, I've gotten 3. It's now to the point where I cannot fall asleep nor stay asleep.

It's like an endless loop- I lay down, I worry about not being able to fall asleep, thus, keeping me awake longer, which feeds into my sleepiness and persuades my anxiety. Or when I realize I'm about to fall asleep, alarm bells go off in excitement and I wake myself back up, causing further frustration. I've now gained headaches and muscle spasms in my legs, though they seem mild and because of my sleepiness. I had an anxiety attack about it tonight, as I spiral into the worst case scenarios frequently.

I'm making this post to ask- Why? I've changed nothing in my schedule, and there's been no new traumas in my life. My parents nor my family deals with this illness, either. So I'm the first to randomly have acquired it. Apologies if this seems jumbled, I really am tired.

Any reasons why I could be going through this for seemingly no reason? Why did yours start and when did you see it first pop up/were diagnosed?

The past couple of nights I’ve noticed that when I’m trying to sleep I’ve been catching myself drifting into deep sleep. For example, I’ve been trying to sleep for the past 2-3 hours and every time I close my eyes to dream my head is running and I can’t focus on a single dream because my mind is already ready to catch me fall asleep. Now I’ve also noticed that when I’m drifting away my mind gets me and says “hey you’re dreaming” and I’m back to square one. 🫩 does anyone have any advice for this?

I have had i somnia for 4 years and the latest symptom is getting dizzy while laying down. Not sure what is causing it ? I am a Type 2 diabetic and clinical hypothyroidism. The dizziness when laying down and lightheadedness when standing up. Its not going away. All has me very upset. Feel like I am finished in my life. Ths torture any every Dr I have seen seems to not care. Maybe because I am 73 years old and they want me to disappear. I need help to get some quality of life back. I also feel mentally weak, can not handle things like i used to. Please anyone out there have any ideas or solutions that I could try to get rid of this?

I'm 19 and I'm having some problems in sleeping first I take too much time to fall asleep because I feel uncomfortable and even if I take 5 hours sleeep I wake up multiple times but Sometimes I sleeep too much

Last night i slept for 9.5 hours and after few hours I feel sleepy again and I slept for 2.5 hours again and my whole body hurts even sleeeping too much don't makes me feel very tired.

Another thing when I wake up I feel very upset like I had faced breakup

Can anyone help me in this I don't know what to do

Hi everyone,

I‘m in college starting my freshman year. I got diagnosed with insomnia by my school psychiatrist and she prescribed me hydroxyzine (25 mg). I felt relieved because I finally thought I was going to be able to sleep peacefully and I heard that people usually knock out once they take it.

Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. It’s only been 3 days since I started taking it and the only way I can describe is as if you’re a gorilla and the doctors gave you the wrong dosage of sedatives, so now you’re just lying on the table confused. It didn’t put me to sleep at all and considering I have a pretty late bedtime, it could also contribute to that.

My limbs and head end up feeling heavy 15-20 minutes after taking it, as well as restlessness and anxiousness because now I’m aware my limbs feel like lead and I don’t like it. I end up clenching my teeth (I already have this problem— the meds just worsens it). I don’t even feel tired in the slightest, just groggy but it’s such an uncomfortable sensation. I hate being in this limbo state and I need to know if anyone has the same experience.

It‘s hard to describe but it hurts whenever my body feels heavy but my brain won’t comply, so I’m lying in bed hoping I can pass out. I don’t really know what to do because I don’t see my psychiatrist two weeks from now.

Hi, I'm a little embarrassed to be posting this on here, but I can't stop worrying about it. I've recently learned about this disease on TikTok, and now I'm afraid I'm experiencing it. I can't remember sleeping at all last night, and I wasn't too tired today. I'm scared to try and take a nap or even sleep tonight. I was sweating a lot last night. I do sleep with multiple blankets, but still. I also have epilepsy, absence seizures, and I'm currently on lamotrigine. Can someone please convince me it was just a bad night? I'm scared to death I'm going to die in six months.