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Hello, this is my first time posting on this forum...I have had progressively worsening insomnia for 3 months now and have had almost all symptoms of sfi. I am really scared as i am only 21 and have so much to live for. I have so far bad constipation, constricted pupils, lack of pain all around my body and numbness, visual disturbances (eyesight is getting worse everyday),short term memory loss, apathy and tinnitus. My doctor ...

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I might be on a roll.

But in case I'm not, I have my sleeping pills I can ask for. I learned that if it came down to it, then I would just use medication to help me through the nights of insomnia.

I started with having hyperglycemia. I have Diabetes. It made me very very sleepy. Especially at dinnertime. I get really hungry at that time of day. I ended up sleeping very early ...

Can sleeping aids be taken every night for years?

I have Alteril, Somnapure and Valerian Root Standardized.

I notice some posts from people saying they've been taking Alteril or Somnapure or Valerian Root every night for years.

Somnapure even prints on it's info sheet "It's important to take Somnapure every night for the natural ingredients in Somnapure to help your body readjust to it's natural Circadian rhythms. The longer you take Somnapure, the more it ...

I've recently bought two"natural" sleep aids:
Alteril and Somanpure.
However, in reading "Other Ingredients" I see a lot of ingredients which appear to be chemicals. And if these are supposed to be "Natural" sleep aids, why would they include "chemical" (if they are) ingredients?
Such as: microcrystalline cellulose, Croscarmellose Sodium. Maltodestrin, Carnauba wax. hypromellose, Vegetable magnesium staerate. Silica, Dicalcium phosphate, Polyvinyl Alcohol, Polyethylene Glycol, silicon dioxide, Titanium Dioxide, etc.
I don't know what these are ...

I’ve been having a pretty serious problem for the last month. Never experienced anything like this in my life. Initially it started as a few weeks on and off waking up way too early (530/515am) before my 6:05am alarm and has now turned into waking up every NIGHT, consistently, in between 1-3am in the last week. EVERY NIGHT. Last night I woke up at 2am and then 530am before my alarm. My first double whammy. ...

Hi, i'm not sure where to post this and apologize if this is in the wrong place.

I have panic attacks a night in the dark, every single noise i hear I get a fright and i just won't sleep, If i do decide to go to bed, i leave a light on. but even then i feel like someone's slowly creeping through the door or hovering over me as i sleep.

If I stay ...

So now insomnia is unbearable.Last 3 days I slept only 3-4 hours.I stopped nitrazepam 10 mg cold turkey and my psychiatrist switched me to zolpidem which I don't take because it gives me only 2-3 hours of sleep.So I tried with 7.5 mg remeron which I know before gave me solid 6-8 hours of sleep.
But all hell brooke lose now.It can not help.Last 3 nights I slept only 4 hours.
Last night I took ...

I'm new in this forum and would like to say hi to all of you, insomniacs, who happen to share a sort of sleep disorder. If I wrote the full story of my troubles with sleep, it would be too long and boring to read. I'm going to make it brief and easy to follow.

I'm extremely sleepy during the day. The sleepiness is very disturbing and influences my life to an extent that lack ...

So I usually reside in the OCD section of this forum but something happened that has to do with insomnia. Last night I had an OCD episode in which I cried due to the intrusive thoughts but after I just couldn't sleep. I stayed awake for the entire night and finally went to sleep early in the morning but when I woke up I had felt like I didn't get any rem sleep. I feel ...