I suffer from severe chronic insomnia. It’s horrible. I don’t take meds or anything I just try my best to deal with it.
So does anyone have any good tips on how to get through the day when you have insomnia and you’re tired and confused all the time? How do you deal with work, school, love, stress, etc?
I don’t need tips on how to fall asleep, as I’ve tried everything in the book. I’d just like to know how other insomniacs cope with everyday life.

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About two weeks ago, I began having heavy problems with sleeping. It has dropped from the usual 6-7 hours first to 5, and now I barely even manage to get 3 hours! Last night I first felt asleep for 1 hour, then I woke up in the middle of the night, I felt like my brain won’t let me sleep, and I felt nervous, so I tossed and turned for about 2 hours in order to get another 2 hours of sleep. I feel extremely bad, I am sweating a lot, I feel like my balance is a bit messed up, and sometimes have mild muscle contractions. It all came out of the blue, for no reason at all. I wasn’t under any stress

Is this sFI possibly? Or just a normal insomnia? I am 20 years old, and I heard there were some cases of this in their 20s.

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I sprained my ankle a week and a half ago. I made an appointment to see a podiatrist, who couldn’t see me until today. All he did for me was give me an ace bandage and told me to exercise it. I told him my foot bothered me at night and it was hard to sleep. He sent me off saying take some ibuprofen and i’ll be fine. Well here I am on sleepless night 5. I’ve become an insomniac due to the pain and other stress. I’m moving in 2 days and also going on a big trip in a week. I can go see my general practioner tomorrow…would it be wrong to be forthright in telling my doctor that i absoultely need some type of drug to help me sleep.

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I am at my wits end! I need to know how to get to sleep! I am planning on going to the doctor on Monday but I am in tears I am so irritated! For the past few months I haven’t been getting to sleep until at least 3 in the morning sometimes later than that and my daughter wakes me up for the day at 8 am. My partner started a new job and I have to get up at 6 am to take her (so I get maybe 2 hours of sleep before driving 30 mins to take her to work. By time we get home around 7 am I only get like 1-2 more hours of sleep. Sometimes I nap with my daughter but a one hour nap just makes me more tired so I try not to nap during the day in hopes that I will be tired early and actually get sleep. I have been nauseous all day and only eating maybe one small meal a day due to that (i think I may be pregnant) so I think the stress of not knowing if I am pregnant, not eating well, and getting pretty much no sleep.

Is there any way I can get to sleep earlier? I am waiting to go to the doc until monday because I will hopefully find out if I am preggo on Saturday and I don’t wanna get any meds to help if I am pregnant. I am so exhausted, please help me!

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I’ve gone to a doctor before about tiredness and waking up tired – the last time I got a blood test done and everything was fine and the doctor didn’t do anything else. Since then I’ve moved house and have another doctor. I went to him and again he wants to start with a blood test. I’m pretty sure this will still be normal. He says that most patients leave it at that and don’t want further tests. I guess if I don’t have high blood pressure (which he tested) and my blood values are normal the chances are high that it’s stress causing the tiredness. Should a bother making another appointment with my GP and asking to go to a sleep center? (It seems like patients are discouraged to do this) Can I diagnose sleep apnea myself – for example by recording my own snoring and seeing if I stop breathing?

Thanks

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I am 15 and for pretty much the whole year, since February, I have been having sleep problems.

I have been stressed for a lot of reasons. My dad had an affair and left earlier in the year, I have been struggling to come out a gay to friends and family, I have been dealing with fights with @rsehole friends, I have had a lot of homework and exams to study for, I am in all of the top classes for every subject and need to maintain my grades, I have had football (which my mum won’t let me quit until next year), and I have had a lot of extra work for programs which I can’t quit because then I have to pay a 00 fee (the programs are sponsored, so if I quit I need to pay back the sponsorship money).

I have been having trouble sleeping because of all of the stress I am under. No matter when I go to bed, I will just lie there for ages. Usually I will only get a few hours sleep each night until I have to wake up (I love leeping in in mornings, but have trouble going to sleep at night). All day I feel tired and struggle to pay attention at school in some subjects (mostly maths, but some others as well).

Are there any ways I can sleep better, longer, or deal with all of the stress. I’m so glad a lot of this will be over next year, but I don’t want to deal with $hitty sleep for the rest of the year.

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If you have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and also have great difficulty sleeping … do you think the meds cause more damage to your body, or do you think by not taking the meds to reduce anxiety and help your body sleep, that the stress would cause more harm to the body in the long run?

Does it make more sense to get a good night’s sleep and feel healthy, rather than irritable and unable to concentrate?

Aside from the dangers of addiction to meds of course, what do you think is more healthy? With or without meds?

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I may have a nasal obstruction. I wake up in the middle of the night. I think I am having some kind of breathing problem. I am 48 years old, and when I was a young child I was hit with a gate on my nose. 38 years later, I think this obstruction is starting to take over my life. Boy am I dragging. It isn’t stress at all. I know that and I don’t take any uppers!

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its 1 am. i have to wake up at 4. but i just cant sleep. i have so much stress and i keep thinking about someone. ugh.

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Did you know that people who get enough sleep (about 7-9 hours a night) are more likely to have higher productivity, feel more energetic throughout the day, and experience less stress? Sleep is crucial for concentration, memory formation, and repairing and rejuvenating the cells of the body. Both mentally and physically, a good night’s sleep is essential for your health and your energy.

It’s best to get enough sleep.

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i take these pills because i cant sleep at night and i have too much stress on me and because of my b/f .. lifes hard.. but what r the effects on this?

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I don’t want to take drugs or pills. I have never had trouble sleeping, but I can’t stay asleep lately. I wake up too early in the morning and I am tired all day then. I am so flustered please help.
I do have a lot of stress in my life that may be a major cause of why I can’t sleep most evenings.

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im busy working all the time and whilst im under stress at the moment i cant sleep and its making me even more stressed making me loose less sleep, its a vicious circle. theres a tesco near my work so are there any sleeping pills i can just pick up there without having to go to the pharmacy (just like you can pick up paracetamol)

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Recently, I have had some stomach problems (loosely diagnosed as gastritis) and have been taking medication and eating a strict diet for almost a month. No matter what I eat, I always feel like my stomach is "unsettled" with the food inside and sometimes it plain hurts (like it’s being squeezed or sometimes, being stabbed). Haven’t had much improvement and even more recently, I’ve been unable to get to sleep. Usually I stay awake until 4-5am. I’m dead tired but I can’t fall asleep and I am always restless and sometimes, emotional for no apparent reason.

– I drink socially but not much at all anymore because of my stomach.
– I don’t drink soda or coffee or eat anything sugary.
– Only eat dinner and that usually consists of something very simple and plain.
– I get simple exercise with walking.
– I have stress at my work but it apparently is not related (stomach never hurts at work and I’ve been stressed out at work long before I started losing sleep)

I have always had some kind of stomach issue but it has always been passed off (probably because I am younger) and I have always had some kind of sleeping problem (since I can remember). It’s only recently that they got more serious (although, I have taken medication for both in the past).

Come on doctors / students / smart people. I’d like a differential to "generic stomach problem and stress".
I have tried everything I thought was possible by myself at home. I don’t drink milk or coffee at all anymore and I hardly eat anything other than rice recently (part of my strict diet).

I have been to the doctor several times and they just give me a simple but uneffective treatment and diagnose me with some generic stomach problem. I’m a 21 year old male so I don’t get taken seriously with doctors usually.

That’s why I’ve taken initiative and tried everything I can at home but nothing seems to be working.

I think I can go back to the doctor with some new information though, thank you.

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After 6 months using this drug every night, is it possible that overuse of is what caused the manic like state that appeared out of nowhere? There were also a lot of stress inducers at the time.

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