Insomnia suffer

@MIDO

If you take a warm shower one to two hours before bedtime it will help you sleep because it will reduce your core body temperature.

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no i wont for 2 reasons first it didnt help with insomnia second there is shortage in it

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i wonder is insomnia we schizophrenic have due to the illness or the antipsychotics?

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Iā€™ve had untreatable insomnia from certain APs, but not all.

Iā€™m currently on olanzapine and risperidone and I sleep great now

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I am new here again, so I am sorry for appearing from nowhereā€¦ I have been in social isolation for years so it is hard for me to speak outā€¦. but I just wanted to answer this since I know this answer from experienceā€¦ I have had insomnia my whole lifeā€¦ I have been up a full week now and when I get sleep again I will get no more than 2 hours in a 24 hr time. Itā€™s always been that way tho days awake vary from one or two days to 11 to 13 being the record for me. But 2 hours is all I ever get to reset the insomnia again. I am not on any antipsychoticsā€¦ I donā€™t do any drugs, donā€™t smoke or drink or anything. I am a schizophrenic that hallucinates in all 5 senses and never found anything to help with anything. Insomnia is a product of schizophrenia, tho the drugs can exacerbate insomnia at times, and it can be caused by other things, but Iā€™ve been a schizophrenic my entire life and they said insomnia and chronic headaches are both because of schizophrenia.

Welcome to the forum @Madkatter

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Thank you so much!

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I think I know that state of the mind a little bit

When I walked about 5 days thru nature

Only short and not deep sleep

Driven by psychosis

Ended in my bed with endless sleep

@Madkatter

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Welcome.

Have you explored drugs and natural remedies for insomnia?

I take magnesium and melatonin which seems to help. Also the drug gabapentin.

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Who are they ?

How old are you and when you are diagnosed with schizoprenia if I may ask ?

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I donā€™t know something about insomnia.

Normally.

Thank you very much, and yes I have tried so many things for a few years, but I havenā€™t tried anything in a while.

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They are the neurologist, psychologist and psychiatrist I had. That is what they told me. And research I have done tends to back them up.
And Iā€™m 40 now, and only got disgnosed as an adult when I was like 30. They said I had it since childhood though since I was hallucinating and showed other symptoms even at 4 and 5.

I understand.

Thatā€™s impressive.

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O! Thank you very much

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Iā€™d had a good run re initial insomnia, but itā€™s reared its ugly head again. Itā€™s difficult getting off to sleep with the buzz buzz buzz I keep hearing. Things are made worse because I keep dropping off to sleep during the day.

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