i'm so tired, and i'm so tired of insomnia, please help?!!!!!

o, and i forgot to add that i had two dr's appointments today. one w/my neurologist and the other an annual follow up after my hysterectomy. i'm cancelling both. i simply cannot do it. i have to come back and get some sleep.

i can't believe i'm seeing things, i just pray i make it to his school and back safelyl. i hate it when i feel this way, although i think this has to be the worse. i wish his school had buses but since it is a first year charter school, they do not have them yet. it sure would help on days like today.

well, i take it back, i'm dropping atticus off at school then i'm coming straight home, i can't be waiting in a parking lot for them to open or i'm likely to pass out. so i'll just come home and get it later. wish me luck, please.

and i also wanted to add that sleep medications do help, but not really sleeping all night. i've tried melatonin and hot teas at night, to no avail.

ok i'm forgetting what i'm typing again, thanks for reading.

i made it home, but i'm not waiting on my meds yet, i'm taking a napl, i'll email or post something later.

thank you mikel

tabatha

Dear Cat, I suffer greatly from insomnia too!  My neurologist has told me that lack of sleep increases both neurological problems (for you Headaches) and muscle/whole body pain.  Your body need atleast 4 1/2 hours of rest every night to just get by.  The preferred amount of sleep is 6 - 8 hours.  Over 9 hours and you are problemly getting more than you need and that can lead to other problems. Melatonin and Valerian did not work for me at all.  Neither did Benederyl.  Next I tried Rx sleep aids.  Ambien was a slight help, but was nothing I could depend on.  Elavil, an old old antidepressant was also of little help.  Neither was Resteril.  I hit gold with Trazadone.  I am allow to take either one or two tablets as I need.  about one hour after taking Trazadone I start to get sleepy.  Another nice thing is where Ambien was several hundreds of dollars per month, Trazadone is generic and runs about $20 for 60 tablet.  What a deal.....and it works. I am also just post menapause and do take hormone replacements (HRT).  I have found that a combination of the HRT and Trazadone, I no longer reach that zombie state associated with several days of not sleeping. Good luck is your search for the perfect sleep Rx.  If one does not work for you, insist on trying something else.  You don;t always have to have the whole Rx filled.  I ask for only 10 days worth at the pharmacy when I am trialing a new medication.  I hate to spend or have my insurance cover something that costs hundreds of dollars, only to have to pitch it because it was not effective. 

thank you all, i have tried to sleep several times and i still can't sleep. i'm still going cross eyed..lol.

on my sleep study i did the first half of it, i never hit rem sleep and i have mild sleep apnea, however my husband was working 11 to 7 shift at night and i had to cancel 2 times in a row because they called him into work last minute. so they won't let me complete my study. it's frustrating.

so, my son will be home soon and i have to function so i took "stay awake" with a coke. now i'm going the oppositte direction. i can't be going cross eyed. plus i'm meeting my son's friend's mother for the first time todqay. and the boys are doing their homework over herel

i'm sorry that this is not more direct at erveryone, my mind is truly running on empty. and there is no way that i could drive.

Cats8201, I am sorry to hear about your insomnia. I am the queen of the insomnia . I was up for 12 days with no sleep when I first developed insomnia. My question has your dr prescribed you anything for sleep? If not I would ask . I am on ambien thanks god for that or otherwise I will not sleep. Good luck. Hugs. Hope you can get some sleep soon.