Very Bad Insomnia, Please Help! Posted: 01-27-07 07:04am
I use to be your standard computer geek
insomniac, up til 4:00 or 5:00 am
regardless, then finally I would fall
asleep. Now, the tables have turned and
fast. Within the month I started waking
up earlier and earlier. First it was
9:00, then 8:00, then 7:00, now I am
waking up at 2:00 am, so I was
compensating by going to sleep earlier and
earlier, which started to cause problems
with my my wife since we never saw each
other.
Now, I am having problems getting to
sleep, and slowly I fall asleep later,
10:00 , then 11:00 now midnight, but I
still wake up at 2:00 a.M, next week it
wil lbe 1:00 am, in the last week, I have
had a total of 17 hours of sleep.
I walk around in a daze all day,
everything is blurry and I can't hold my
eyes open, but when I do close them, no
sleep. So I have stopped driving, and I
run a high-tech business that is starting
to fail, I am becoming incapable of doing
anything, or at least my actions are of
that of someone running on a week of 17 or
less hours of sleep.
I am on several medications from a past
injury. I take soma for muscle damage,
and I have temporal lobe epilepsy, which I
take klonopin and keppra for. I started
the keppra after the sleep issues started,
so that isn't a factor, and the soma and
klonopin I have been on for over a year.
With these medication, one would think I
would sleep like a baby.
Lately, I have tried lunesta, ambien and
ambien-cr, with no real affect. All did
put me to sleep but I was still waking up
earlier every day, and now they don't
affect me.
Today is my 1st year anniversary, and I
can't see straight. I have tried resting
and I can't.
My doctor who is also a sleep specialist
is at a loss of what to do. Please point
me in the right direction before my life
is completely ruined.
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cam94z28
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 2 Location: longwood
Posted: 01-28-07 10:45am
Sounds like your circadian rhythms are
completely out of whack. It may have been
better to keep sleeping at the same time
every day until your sleep cycle adjusted.
If you keep changing the time you sleep,
your sleep cycle will keep skipping
around. You may want to look into a light
box to adjust your circadian rhythms.
I have a problem with anxiety effecting my
sleep, causing me to jerk awake, and
keeping me from staying asleep. I'm only
getting about 5 hours a day until my
depression medicine, lexapro hopefully
starts kicking in, so I know vaguely how
you feel. I used to get 10+ hours a day
when I didnt have anxiety so this is like
sleep deprivation for me too.
