I have insomnia tonight

[Hadeda]

It’s 03:25 here and I’m wide awake, can’t sleep, had midnight snack and tried to read a bit but can’t concentrate much. I’m restless. Mirtazapine doesn’t seem to be working for my insomnia anymore.

I’m so frustrated. My usual pattern is to take it before bed, go sleep, start kicking my legs, turn over, kick more, self sex to relax but it just makes me feel guilty but sometimes it does help to make me fall asleep but tonight I drifted and came up again to surface.

Spoke to hubby, he scratched my back, that didn’t help, I moaned about some frustrations and got up, defeated, ate and read and am on here.

I really have a truckload to tell my pdoc on the 12th!!! I really hoped the mirtazapine would solve my sleeplessness but it doesn’t seem to. Unless it’s just because I’m home first night from hospital

In hospital I took at least two hours to fall asleep, and woke up at least once during night but once morning came I slept well

Here at home it’s the same pattern - struggle for several hours to fallsleep but in morning I overseleep and am tired till 10am or so

It seems like I can’t cure my night owl syndrome…

[anon54334749]

I fall asleep around 3AM to 4AM every night, I’m on abilify and it may be the reason why. I’m not sure how to fix my routine, I’ve started setting an alarm for a specific time in the mornings in hope that it’ll do something, but I end up sleeping during the day which doesn’t fix it.

[irrelevant]

Some nights it takes me a couple hours to fall asleep like last night but I don’t mind it. I kinda enjoy it. I just lay there and make up stories in my head.

[Rosette]

You should speak with your pdoc if it bothers you so much. They may have to review the sleep medication. A good nights rest is important.

[LilyoftheValley]

I’ve had insomnia for a few weeks now. It’s awful.

[Lightyourlamp]

Staying on a consistent sleep schedule is the most important thing to improve insomnia I think. The body gets into a rhythm and likes to stay there.