Symptom of Anxiety/Insomnia?

Hey guys and gals, new poster here just found this.

Lil history...

May 21st I started not sleeping. I graduated college May 19th and don't have a job because I have a speech impidiment I wanted to fix before going into the workforce. So I took up speech therapy but stopped going cuz the insurance wouldn't cover it. So my current theory is that my insomnia is caused because I have no purpose currently, with no job or anything and am maybe worried about getting a job. Theres some stuff that should be noted tho..

I never had a problem sleeping, I could make myself fall asleep just by lieing down, I daydreamed often and would fall asleep in class.

I have been suffering from an impidiment for years, and have had many embrassing situations, but still slept fine so I don't think thats contributing.

Also coincidently (or not?) I started having pressure in my head as soon as I couldn't sleep, I thought it was why I couldn't sleep. I got a CT scan on my head and I had a sinus infection, took antibiotics, but still couldn't sleep after that was over with.

Now I have been on lunesta, which helped for a bit, then stopped working. Rozarem, which didn't work at all. Then .5mg lorazepam, which worked, then stopped, so I took 1mg of it, worked for a whole 2 days before I didn't sleep at all from it. Now I am going to try for the first time tonight Lexapro. Today I also found out I have a prostate infection so am taking some antibiotic for that.

Finally the last thing I want to say and ask is, I still feel this weird sensation on the top of my head, like if my brain was a muscle I was lifting weights with it. Then tuesday this week there was a lot of pressure around the side of my head and ears, but that went away. Now today that same top part of my head is feeling really warm and hot, almost like a fever, but kind of internally. Is this what anxiety feels like or should this be something more? I mentioned it to my doctor today and she dismissed it. I just don't know what that sensation is and was wondering if anyone else knew what I was talking about.

Also what advice can you guys give for prescriptions if you have similiar tolerances like mine to the drugs? What worked for you very well?

Thanks!

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I just want to know if this strain in my head is stress/anxiety because I never had it before so I wasn't sure if it was something really physical or not.

Also how do you guys take you sleeping pills? Do you take it then go to lie down when you feel tired, or take it and lie down right after and wait to fall asleep?

Last question? Anyone try lexapro? I took it for 2 days but got less than 2 hours of sleep because it makes me jittery and anxious. My doctor said to take it for a while because it can take some time to take effect, but I don't want to keep taking it with that effect. Plus I don't think I am depressed.

I'm not really sure so this is just from my experiences.

So, the strain in your head might be stress/anxiety. I kinda had the same things around March-June of last year. That was around the time school was ending and stuff, so I was def. stressed. Once school was over, the pain was gone. No medicine took care of it, so I think it definitely had to do with the stress in my life at the time. Not sleeping might also be contributing to the problem. Try to take of that first and see what happens. If you're really worried about it go and talk to your doctor and explain to them just how concerned you are and then (hopefully) they can tell you what problems it might be and give you medicine or just help you to get rid of it.

When I used to take sleeping pills, I would take them and then do whatever for a few mins. and then when I would start to feel tired, I would just hop into bed and doze off.

I hope that helped even just a little. My biggest suggestion would just be to go to your doctor and tell him or her the problems your expericing even after your infection was cured.

Good luck!

-Adriana

Hello.

I have had insomnia for more than thirty yrs. I have went more than 4 weeks no sleep. My brain went jello on me. I got to a head doc that helped get sleep back.

I also have had migraines all my life, I felt a constant pressure in my head, I would have sworn that there was a huge soft ball in there, my pysch sent me to a nuerologist, MIR later I have a abnomally in the center of my brain. The nuero put me on blood pressure medicine. propranol (wrong spelling i am sure) Inderal is the brand name. No more pressure. Less headaches, sleep better and no I did not have "high blood pressure" to begin with.

There are many different sleep meds. Most can be habit forming.
If you do take sleep meds, take as close to bedtime as possible, they do tend to act quickly.

hope this helps,
Red

That's odd, I've tried lunesta, rozaram, and activan (lozarepam), and none of them work quickly for me, it still takes many hours to fall asleep, and lately this lozarepam hasn't even been making me sleep, I guess I should move onto another medication?

It is possible anxiety could be counteracting sleep medications? I didn't even think I had anxiety, one day I just couldn't sleep, but then its possible it could be so strong now that it prevents certain medications from not working?

just curious smalltalkred how old are you? so now after all that time you are sleeping okay now with the meds you are on?

I talked to my doctor and now tonight I am trying Xanax.

I have PTSD, severe nightmares and insomnia.

I have severe anxiety, I take klonopin, very good for anxiety.
I have been on all the meds you mentioned, I would NOT suggest, xanax at all. It is quick acting, short lived and very easy to get dependent on it, an horrible to go off of. NO to Xanax.

My body is a little funny, I can not take benadryl that is in "pm sleep meds" over the counter.

Lunesta gave me racing thoughts. Ambien is my main sleep med.

I have very real, awful reasons for not being to sleep or relax.
I am over 35 in yrs.

Stress can bring out many things. Not sleeping is one of them.

What is the dose in mg's that the doc prescription for the xanax and is it only to be used for sleep.

I have a whole ritual , aromatherapy and such to help me sleep.

I know this is going to sound funny, I understand laying in bed waiting for sleep to come. I have tried all sorts of things from listing all the states and their capital(here in the usa) THIS is one thing that works better than counting or what ever.

If you do math equations you will fall asleep. You can play around with prime numbers anything like that, for some reason it puts your brain in the right "mode" to shut down and sleep.

Good Luck,
Red

Well xanax didn't work for me last night. I took it about midnight and couldn't fall asleep till around 10am and even then it was very light in and out sleep until 1pm. This was after the 'high' effects of the drug had already worn off and I think I was just tired from a medicine hangover. I guess I shouldn't take xanax either?

Have you ever had the feeling that your head is extremely hot? I felt that last night I feel like my head is really hot no the inside. and I just hope nothing more serious is wrong with me. This is the 4th sleeping aide I have tried that didn't help.

Well moving along my doctor gave me ambien CR now to try so I hope it works like it does for you!

Also I think the lexapro is working because I no longer have a strain or heat in my head so I think that was anxiety related. Let's just hope now this ambien CR will help me out.

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