So I have insomnia. I know I do. It’s been going on for 3 years and getting worse. I’m 21 and have been to different doctors and tried different medicine. I want to sleep without taking medication. But there is no way. i can go for 2-3 days without any sleep and be tired but I’ll just lay there. I don’t think of anything but sleep but when and if I do sleep it’s no more than 4 hours a night.
I have tried Melatonin, Ambin, Ambin CR, Rozerem, Lunesta, Tyenol PM, Advil PM, Simply Sleep, etc. ONLY thing that will work is Ambin CR but I don’t sleep long at all. Say I take it at 10PM, I’m up by 3 or 4.
I have went to a sleep disorder doctor in the past year and they wanted to do all kinds of tests. She said I could have anxiety or depression. I have none of that… I’m a really happy person and love my life.
I work out, I do yoga and walk around the campus (I’m not in school, btw) and I eat healthy and I don’t drink sodas or coffee. My heart rate is high and I had surgery on my thyroid in my neck because they thought that might be the problem but it’s not.
I used to be able to sleep as mush as I wanted and when I wanted. Say, I went to bed at 9PM woke up at 11AM take a nap during the day and go to sleep fine by 9PM that night! I slept through Hurricane Katrina, my mom had to shake me to wake me up and that didn’t matter, I went back to sleep. I could stay up all night and sleep all day the next and sleep the next night.
I got some money issues but it’s something I’m not THAT worried about. I have a great family and a handful of friends that I love dearly. My sister passed away in 2007 and I also moved to FL that year but came back to my home town in LA and now I have a wonderful boyfriend, a house and a puppy.
I don’t smoke cigarettes, I rarely drink, I don’t do any drugs but I do smoke pot to help me relax but I’m quitting for now because I need a job and I’m not doing it the fake way but it doesn’t put me to sleep. Just relaxes me. Doctors don’t believe me when I tell them I cannot sleep for 2-3 days. Even when I’m sick and throwing up I’ll take Phenergan and it’ll make me feel tired but I won’t go to sleep. Even if I get it through a shot.
Please, could someone just tell me what I should do? I’m tired all the time and I have tried different medications and natural and nothing works. I don’t wanna live on Ambin forever. I hate taking pills. I just wanna be able to sleep whenever like I could when I was 16-17…
Thanks to whomever tries to point me in the right direction. Remember, I have tried Melatonin (everyone seems to tell me to take it) and it makes me tired but no sleep. It’s the 5MG and I have taken more and still NOTHING… please I don’t want any mean or sarcastic answers saying “Go to a doctor” because I HAVE. =((
Thanks.
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1 or 2 hours before going to bed, take a shower. Then when you get out, put on your pajamas. Then sit down and watch some TV. Do not drink any caffeine. Drink water the last 3 or 4 hours before going to bed. Also, do some exercises a couple of hours before going to bed, that will help to wear you out, so you can sleep. Good Luck!
I have tried Melatonin, Ambin, Ambin CR, Rozerem, Lunesta, Tyenol PM, Advil PM, Simply Sleep, etc. ONLY thing that will work is Ambin CR but I don’t sleep long at all. Say I take it at 10PM, I’m up by 3 or 4.
i think all those are your problem.
what about weed….ill bet that would help…and its natural
also work out twice as hard and go to bed at the same time every night and make sure its early and wake up at 6 am everyday
EDIT weed isn’t a drug and it doesn’t kill you…..all the stuff you listed does though
It’s clearly a hidden issue other wise you’d face it by now and get to sleeping. It’s obvious either physical or mental. I’m guessing that it’s mental.
How many friends do you have and how often do you socialize? You’re entire life story is here, maybe you’re focused on your story and happy with your life sure but emotionally and psychically programming yourself to be the best that you can and never take real breaks that you are in a state of over drive and can’t sleep.
Maybe it’s the fact that you haven’t worried about anything and are fooling your emotions that you can’t sleep because you’re repressing the emotions that give into stress and help ease you into comfort and realism, peace of mind by facing your true feelings…
Maybe you should feel a little conflicted some times instead of building yourself up into something that’s so care free and almost in human.
I think you’re over focused right now, pride is keeping you awake as well as the security of not having to face any insecurities perhaps.
Working out and always having a solution may not give you peace at mind as assertive forces esp when there is some hidden issue that you seem to be dancing around.
I have no reason to think this will work but before you get ready to go to bed next time call your family and talk with them about your and their day…no reason do I think this will work, just all speculation.
hi
oh hun
i have been in this situation my whole life
it started when i was 2 or 3 and didnt end till i had my daughter
i have tried most of things you list and none of them are particularly good. if you are sure there is nothing underlying you are worried about think about when you have been asleep have you dreamed? and what about? it could link into it especially if you had sleeping problems as a child.
now i have sorted out my sleeping sometimes i get a night where i can’t sleep but i have a little remedy that works for me.
i have a v- shaped pillow which i prop up on other duck feather pillows and i wear lose cotton pyjamas. make sure you have plenty of space in a pitch dark room with no one else in.
put the tv on low sound and settle onto the pillows. close your eyes and listen to the tv. it relaxes me enough for me to drop off. try it
good luck
i hope this sorts out soon
xx
sorry to simplify it but why don’t you take the old fashion remedy. exercise, have a filling meal, a warm shower and then some kind of drink with warm milk like hot chocolate. if the pills aren’t working then its better to not have all of those chemicals in your system. Sorry to hear about the bad times you have had.
maybe get your boyfriend to give you a massage also.
Woah. That is so cool and scary. I thought i had sleep insomnia, but it turns out I just cant sleep until really late. Im a 12 year old girl and i sleep 10 to 12 hours later than the rest of my family does. They all sleep at around 12 am. I stay up until like 10 am (like one morning I wake up at 7 am, then all of a sudden bed time comes but I cant sleep until 10 am, i do not mean the 3 hour later 10 am, but the 24 hour later 10 am) LOL SORRY MY MATH IS PROBABLY WRONG But oh well. But seriously its weird.
The answer to your question (which can only relax but not fall asleep)
This is weird but, take your favortite pillows that u sleep on and a sheet or a thin blanket (on warm weathers do the thin blanket thing. On cold weathers use a bunch of blankets that do not heat you up quick. Because cold or not a nice cool temperature room can keep you relaxed.)and put it in the freezer. Then take it out before you go to bed, and use it!
Getting lazy, so ima go now. But that tip really helps, it makes u close your eyes and snuggle with the blanket, and u will start to doze in and out of consionciousness (idk how to spell it) and it is almost like sleeping, and u get the same amount of sleep like regular people. Without even technically sleeping.
idk its weird cant explain
oh one more thing that i learned in utube. Once ur in bed, relax your mustles for three seconds. Then tighten up every mustle in your body(way better than working out cus it doesnt get adreniline going and your calm.) for a slow 60 seconds. Then stop and relax, you will be so tired and calm that u would be dying to close your eyes lay down and relax. Good thing ur already in bed. You would fall asleep alot easier doing this.
DONT TAKE WEED! STUPID AZZ BEEYOTCH IS BELOW ME IS TRYNA TELL U TOO TAKE WEED. DRUGS ISNT THE ANSWER TO SLEEP. (the stuff inside the ciggarettes are the drugs.) IT JUST GETS YOU ADDICTED AND KILLS YOU! oh ya that will get u to sleep alrright? Dying means more sleep for u?
lol sorry little girl speech
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