News of Sleep Disorders

I haven't been able to sleep almost at all the past 4 days. I flew from the US to India and arrived in India at around 3 AM Tuesday morning. On Tuesday, I took a 3-hour nap in the evening, and then at night I slept from around 12 to 2 AM. On Wednesday, I decided not to nap during the day (although I was exhausted) so that I could sleep through the night easier. ...

Ambien after a long period of use started to lose its effectiveness for me and I was getting maybe 3 and a half hours sleep a night towards the end. I weaned myself off - there were still some withdrawal effects so I want to avoid a benzo based sleeping aid.

Years ago I was taking a large dose of gabapentin for another issue but they moved me to another med because the weight gain ...

Im 24 years old and every night I have nightmares. I've had them as far back as I could remember, probably around the age of 5. I hardly ever have any good dreams and my nightmares leave me waking with anxiety attacks. I hate sleeping, and I hate staying awake because then my mind wanders and I start getting anxiety over little things. My nightmares feel so real I don't wanna sleep. Not to mention ...

No matter how much sleep I get, I am always tired. There are times when I even get up to 12 hours and that's still not enough. I have always wanted to wake up naturally but something, typically random noise or my roommate, wakes me up early. sometimes I'll end. up waking myself up from fear of being woken up too early.

Some side notes...
I work nights so I'm asleep for most of the ...

Hey everyone,
I've had a weird type of parasomnia for as long as I can remember, and I am unable to find a name for it.
It usually happens when I had an emotional day, and usually after 3 or 4 hours of sleep (in the middle of the night, so to speak). To be as clear as possible, I am going to give you last night's example: I work as a camera operator, and ...

Hi I am a 26 year old man and I have had terrible insomnia for a long time. It got to the point where it was affecting other areas of my life years ago. I've had this problem since I was about 4 when I would lay in my bed for hours before I fell asleep. It has gotten a little worse lately but I'm not sure why. I don't think it's any of the ...

I have had this reoccurring nightmare for at lest 5 years now, sometimes its not even a nightmare, just something that i might see in my head while I am out walk etc etc. In this nightmare/vision I am being touched inappropriately by this male aged in his mid 30's/40's he usually just bursts in the door of my house starts doing things and thats where it ends, it never gets overly graphic but is ...

This past few weeks my insomnia is getting worse, and this week this has the worst it's been the worst it's been after reading a book called "the effortless sleep method" which thought would work but I don't know why things seemed worse after wards!! I started thinking positive things after reading it and it made it some what worse!! Then I went to a sleep therapist, I thought she'd help. She did muscle tensing ...

Hey guys,

I had some events at the beginning of this year that caused me insomnia. Out of desperation, I went to my doctor and got a script for Zopiclone (Lunesta). I used it nightly for 4 months, and then started to get tolerance withdrawal which made me feel like I wanted to end my life.

I was told to quit cold turkey, and went over to using 50mg of Seroquel for the sleep.

I ...

Just wondering if anyone here has a done a sleep study and how they slept..

If so i have a few questions

If you are an insomniac and you are unable to sleep through the sleep study will they give you a medication too sleep?

Is it expensive?

How did you feel about it?