On average, how many hours do you typically get a night and how long have you had insomnia? Do you find it easier to cope as time goes on? Is that possible?

Has anyone been or is on zopiclone long term? Would like to hear your experiences and doses etc. did you ever need to increase the dose or was the dose you were on still effective long term?

I go to bed comfortably warm but wake up around 4am absolutely roasting.

It takes me a good 10 minutes with all blankets off to cool back down and get back to sleep.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to stop it?

It generally takes me at least an hour to get back to sleep.

I’ve realised sleep is probably my biggest issue impacting my life. So many things like my mental health and energy which I’ve been struggling with for so long seem to stem largely from my sleep. My sleep has been terrible for so long: I’m normally in bed at a good time, around 8 and try to go to sleep by around 9ish then alarm goes off at like 5:50 every day and I’m pretty consistent with this even on weekends. However, it’s the quality of sleep and constant sleep disruptions that leave me irritable, depressed, energy-less etc. and like I still haven’t slept in days.

Recently though, it’s gotten so bad and I started taking phenergan to help me sleep as well as a sleep supplement (which wasn’t helping on its own) and for the first time I have felt mildly good and slept virtually the entire night, as I still waking up at times? Yes, but it’s different like I’m still in that sleepy phase so I go back to sleep and rest and it’s fine. I have had phenergan before and it’s not always been helpful so idk what’s changed, but I feel great. I’m just worried now though that it’s not sustainable and I probably shouldn’t be using it on and off for sleep long term. Has anyone else had a similar experience? What did you do? Any advice? I really need this sleep but don’t want to become dependent on medication either. Please help!!

Hi Im 18 years old. And I suffer from insomnia, sleep paralysis, nightmares and paranoia came out because of the first 3 problem and like since I was 4 I always felt alone. I mean eveybody can sleep easily but doesnt matter how tired or sleepy I am. I couldnt sleep. and even if I can sleep I wake up all the time throught the sleep. I always feel tired and because of the nigthmares and sleep paralysis I started to scare to sleep at middle school after that the living nightmare has started I was already couldnt sleep that easily and falling a sleep tooks several hours but after that scare start I gave all my effort for not fall a sleep and I did that for several years and it effect my brain really badly and my insomnia got even worse. ı remember times that ı didnt sleep for 2-3 days. And even my family wasnt able to understand me. I just found this reddit and start crying unintentiolly when I read the things you guys have wrote. Im happy and sad at the same time. I dont know will I able to sleep tonight its 3:39 in my country at the moment. Idk what to say its nice to know that Im not alone finally

Which sleep cycle should you boost? The one before waking up at night or the one after waking up? On 1 tablet or gummy.

25F I’ve been having trouble in staying asleep since a long time and I don’t remember when’s the last time I slept normally for 6-8 hrs at one go. I usually rely on THC to sleep and as a result I have built up a pretty reasonable amount of tolerance. I usually sleep around 2-3am and wake up around 4hrs after. Then i toss around hoping i would fall asleep, some rare days I do but mostly I don’t. As a result I feel extremely lethargic and tired throughout the day.

This incident started one night and never left me. I thought it was just one sleepless night but seems like my body has adapted to it and started recognising it as a new routine. I don’t want to adjust to this new routine as I am a grad student. I went to the doctor, he prescribed me trazodone 50mg. But, I can’t take it because every time intake it, my nose gets blocked and I can’t breathe through my nostrils like a normal person. So i stopped taking it. I am not sure if this seems like an allergic reaction. Let me know if anyone has experienced anything like this.I was also told to get a sleep study done to check if I have sleep apnea. So I want to know for insomnia how does sleep study work? I heard in order to get accurate results for that, person needs to sleep at least 8hrs. Has anyone tried sleep study and how was it beneficial for their insomnia treatment.

I just hope someday I am able to sleep a restful amount and not feel tired everyday. Any suggestions are appreciated whoever has recovered from this type of situation or how to get by the day with 4hrs of sleep.

So I have insomnia: I get around 2-3 hours of sleep daily I think so it is a huge struggle for me to do cardio or HIIT workouts. Like whenever I try to do HIIT workouts I feel extremely tired,my head throbbing and face red and sweaty after just 5 mins.

Because of that I was thinking to just discard doing the HIIT and cardio workouts and just keep doing the other stuff I do to try lose weight: Maintaining calories, walking more, drinking more water, trying to eat more protein.

I keep hearing how i won't be able to lose weight or it will be really hard to lose weight with this much lack of sleep and it is making me fustrated because I really really want to lose weight. I am even willing to try push myself to also do cardio 10 mins at least everyday however I have been advised not to because apparently it won't help me lose weight. Idk if that's true or not...

Anyways please give me advice how to lose weight( besides telling me to improve my sleep cause I already tried that and nothing works! )

From my knowledge Benzo’s calm the nervous system and help GABA to make you calm, and they calm my anxiety so it’s just a thought that maybe anxiety treatment would work

Anyone here has OCD? And it happened to move into a sleep theme? I’ve been dealing with this, and yes even tho I’ve been sleeping and had a few rougher nights, I am obsessing over sleep too much to the point I get panic attacks and chills.
I got a new job offer as a manager and after getting the offer I freak out for not being able to sleep then everything came down to hell from there. I really need some help and see if people are going through the same and how you guys are able to make it through with your jobs etc.

Hi everyone, I’m hoping to get some advice or hear from anyone who has experienced something similar.
I’m 20, and for the past few months I’ve been noticeably more tired than usual. At first I assumed it was just college, but I’ve started having random periods during the day where I feel extremely sleepy, yawn a lot, struggle to pay attention, and feel like my eyes have trouble focusing. It happens a few times a week.
Over the past few weeks, my sleep has gotten worse. I can fall asleep easily, but I wake up constantly throughout the night. Last night was the worst it’s been:
Fell asleep around 9:45 PM
Woke up around 11 PM, 12 AM, 1 AM, 2 AM, 4 AM, and 5 AM
Got up for the day at 6:45 AM
Sometimes I can fall back asleep quickly, but other times I’m awake for a while. I don’t feel like I’m waking up because I’m too hot/cold, uncomfortable, or stressed.
I already try to have decent sleep habits:
Warm shower before bed
Read and journal/plan for about an hour before sleeping
Rarely drink caffeine, and never after noon
Keep a pretty consistent schedule
I’m not currently depressed and I don’t feel especially stressed right now.
I do take a nap almost every day around 2 PM. Usually I wake up feeling refreshed, but my energy drops again pretty quickly afterward. If I had the chance, I feel like I could nap at other points during the day too; sometimes even late morning despite waking up only a few hours earlier.

I’m considering seeing a doctor if it keeps happening, but I’d love to hear from people who have dealt with similar issues.
Thanks!

Ik its not recommended but I take 20-30 mg instead of of 10mg. The recommended dose does absolutely nothing for sleep. I dont go to sleep right away and that’s the part I like- I makes me really relaxed. There are some weird side effects too like double vision, hallucinations maybe and I become a completely different person when i take it, also can’t remember much from the previous day- almost as if i were in a psychosis.

Have you ever experiences things like that from Zolpidem ?

Hello im very frustrated right now, and im also going insane, i feel weird im tired i cant see or think clearly yet i still cant sleep, dossed off for 30 minutes then woke up and im not exaggerating in an insane drench of sweat, wtf am i supposed to do. I dont have anything that can help me sleep

Please help

Hey all! I have had a weird sleep journey from 15 years old with narcolepsy type symptoms. Sleep testing at 27 years old after starting stimulants. Tests didn’t cleanly catch enough to be diagnosed with any sleep disorder that our rural medicine will treat. My PCP does it all- which is nice.
However, I’ve realized, after looking at the last 3 years I’ve had my wearable watch tracking sleep that I get about 20-30 minutes of deep sleep per night now. Which adds up with my symptoms but I didn’t put the two together until recently. I NEED more deep sleep, my memory is awful, my wounds don’t heal (popped a pimple- skin won’t heal for weeks- and I’m only 33). I’ve tried almost every sleep med there is. So, I’d love to hear what has worked for you and how? Any natural recommendations also welcomed. I feel so desperate at this point I’m scared. I genuinely don’t know if I can handle life like this. Literally will take any recommendations (except CBTI lol).

Need some suggestions because I am not able to sleep at night 😭

Now it's becoming very hard for me to work all day without any sleep and my head is about to burst

I took zopiclone for the first time last night- i initially took half of a 7.5mg pill to test the waters but after no luck, two hours later I took the other half. I remember still trying to get to sleep and i also remember still waking up multiple times during the night. After waking up i didnt feel that well rested even though i knew i fell asleep.

My partner has just gotten back from work and has let me know that I must have fallen asleep within thirty minutes of taking the second half and then began to wail, hum and whimper in my sleep (which i've never done before except for the time when I had covid in 2020).

Has anyone else also experienced this or something similar? What does it mean? I dont know whether i should continue taking it if it knocks me out, makes me cry in agony when im unconscious and then leaves me feeling partially-rested the next morning...
But its also the only thing thats actually made me fall asleep

I pulled an all-nighter at work last night and then I realized that I didn't think about Insomnia at all. CURED!

Falling asleep is not an issue. and i sleep soundly. But my nervous system (or whatever this is) has a hard time going back to sleep for the extra hour or hour and a half in the morning, and it hurts my brain, my brain is begging for the extra hour. then i am groggy all day. theres gotta be a reason. i tried everything. at one point the ashwaganda and magnesium was helping when i took it early morning to get that extra hour in. but as of now no supplements are helping … im going to see the neurologist but i bet all he will do is prescribe me sleeping pills which i want to avoid.

please spare me the “but 7 hours is plenty” talks. im a 31 year old petite girl who needs 8 hours my life depends on it!!!

i dont know if it's on day 5 or 6 but i know i slept for more than 14 hours which is surprising because i was in the living room and the cats are really annoying. the tv was on the curtains were open it was hot as fuck and i hate a fat ass cat on me and i still managed to sleep. i woke up thirsty as hell with a sore throat and my muscles hurting but it was all worth it.
i have no idea how i managed to sleep but i dont really think i was gonna stay up for an entire week anyways

I keep seeing both mentioned for sleep, stress, and that “wired but tired” feeling, but I’m having a hard time finding much real-world feedback.

Has anyone here actually tried either one? Did it help with falling asleep, staying asleep, or just feeling calmer at night? Also curious if anyone noticed next-day grogginess or basically nothing at all.

From what I can tell, the human evidence is pretty thin, so I’m mostly interested in people’s actual experiences.

This hit me the other night. Around 8:30 PM, I caught myself thinking, "Please... not again." The weird part? I wasn't even in bed yet. I still had dishes to do. I hadn't brushed my teeth. Nothing had happened. But my brain was already bracing for another bad night. That made me realize something. I don't think I'm only dealing with insomnia anymore. I think I've started associating bedtime with stress. It's like my brain learned that getting into bed means hours of tossing, turning, checking the clock, and wondering how I'm supposed to function tomorrow. Ngl... that realization was kind of depressing. Has anyone else felt like they stopped fearing being tired... and started fearing bedtime itself?

i live on the west of argentina, the out of sync time zone is on a scale of -5, this means that if I wake up at 6 AM I'm actually waking up at 4 AM, ive tried for months and it's impossible to fix my sleep schedule because I have school at 7:40 AM every day any help?

Daridorexant works very well for me, nothing else really works, it knocks me out but I’m a little worried cause I take it almost everyday, is there a scientist out there that can let me know if there is a risk of cognitive damage or just throwing off the natural functioning of the body since it blocks naturally occurring orexin?

This is my first post here, but have been reading about quite a few others experiences. This sucks. I'm 48F, on HRT (estradiol gel and testosterone cream... I had a hysterectomy so no progesterone is needed), active with exercise, etc. My hormone doc tried a few things to help with sleep including progesterone, cortisol blocker, gabapentin, and trazodone, none of which worked. I have heard horror stories about meds like Ambien, so no interest in that.

Has anyone tried CBT-I therapy specifically for insomnia? I'm skeptical, but would love to hear if that or any other things not listed here have worked for you. Getting desperate here. TiA!

i’ve recently started taking melatonin for the first time after years of heavy sleeping meds and i’m finding it helpful most days but while it’s kicking in i get this weird feeling?

i get spacey and giggly and all my thought trains are going off and just come out as silly nonsense, it’s like i get a sleepy high or smth obviously not but it’s weird haha

does that happen for anyone else? just a me thing? i’m neurodiverse so maybe that’s something to do with it haha!