Greetings all

So, I found myself here...be it looking for others with Insomnia issues, be it through experience, insite, or advice.

I am 29 and have has issues sleeping for a few years now, but has only truly become an issue over the past 8 months or so. I finally went to my doctor in November and he started me on Zolpidem Tartrate, and suggested taking Melatonin along with it. At first this was doing the trick, but has progressivly and quickly faded.

I am not one that is overly open with talking about my issues, but at this point, I think it is time to reach out to those with experience. So here goes...

At first it was just issues falling asleep, usually took me till about 8am before falling asleep, only to have to wake up again at noon for work and such. The pills helped for a short while, then I started falling back into same habbit. I started doubling up on the pills, and it worked...but only for a short while. Then about a month or so ago it progressed to the point I am at now. I just cannot sleep, I try, I fail...and I find myself falling deeper into a mental and physical state that I am quite afraid of. I find that I just do not care anymore, about anything really. I am nausious weather I eat or not, and not overly compelled to eat. I am getting headaches that are not so much painful, but VERY discomforting. I am also having mood swings, anger and irritability issues, I am snapping on my friends and coworkers, and just do not like where all this is going.

I do have another docs visit scheduled...but I am looking for more then just the professional help.

So yea, greetings all, and well met.

~Numb

Hey mate, I know exactly what you're going through. Without getting any sleep you feel like you're going crazy. I was on diazepam, but stopped because I found out people can become pretty dependent on it. Also it didn't really work very well.

You really need to get to the bottom of the reason behind your insomnia. Like mine is that when I try to relax my mind to go to sleep, I start hearing noises and then start thinking about the time I did magic mushrooms and how I felt trapped in an eternity. So I've recently started meditating for about 15 minutes before I go to bed, it's a good way to relax your mind and get rid of headaches. I recommend meditating to soft relaxing music, which you can leave on in the background after you finish, which will give you something to concentrate on. Another thing I do is put on SBS and watch some movie with subtitles in it. Trying to focus on all the text makes me tired and I kind of just drift off after a while...

see if you can get offlabel xyrem (it's only explicitly approved for extreme narcolepsy i think), it'll work forever and make you healthier (boosts your growth hormone a lot, old bodybuilder's trick).