Unable To Sleep Well

[PureDogs]

Good Morning,

Have you experienced not able to sleep well during the night?

Lately, I have not slept well and I don't stay sleep at the whole time. I noticed that I have been woke up few times during the night - When I woke up and I just simply went back to sleep without any issues.

It's annoying for me and I would like to sleep well. Even Prazosin isn't always effective like I stated on other thread about this medication.

Bad dreams? Probably but I can't remember and there are times that I can tell by how impacts my sleep would be.

I wonder if it is part of trigger (maybe Flashbacks) or memories in my mind that I am not able to identify?

 

[Deleted member 24866]

All the time. I thought maybe it was smoking and the hormonal imbalance causing it as it is a symptom. Maybe not. I have slept through the night I think 2-3 times in 3 years.

 

[BLHutch]

I don't sleep very much at all. I am usually up every two hours. Sometimes it is because of nightmares and other times it is just a feeling of restlessness. I hear every little sound at night and regularly get up and check the house and make sure that there isn't something wrong.

 

[katiekat]

It's rare I sleep through the night, and since I have been in therapy, I wake with nightmares or very disturbing dreams. They don't seem to be related to any trauma I've had which makes them a little unsettling. Last week I had a dream that a man was peeking into my window in the night and he saw me see him there, and I woke up terrified. (that is one of my more mild dreams too!)

 

[user17231]

I hear every little sound at night and regularly get up and check the house and make sure that there isn't something wrong.

I share this, although I often don't get up and check, then let my thoughts race as I imagine someone breaking into my house to attack me. This of course leads to full on panic attacks, and the process just spirals from there. Not terribly fun.

 

[butterapple]

I sleep conscious that I am sleeping fitfully and am never fully rested or I sleep all day not wanting to wake up from my dream state if it is one of comfort. I take nothing for sleep now since August and I'm not sure that I think it's good for me. But maybe neither is being on sleeping pills off and on for 20 years.

Exercise only wakes my brain up and I will fall asleep sitting up unable to calm myself enough to take the final step of actually settling in to bed and changing into pajamas. I won't let myself go to sleep I feel like I must stay awake and figure things out or try to wait until I am calm or fall asleep. Lately I have kind of been forcing myself to go to sleep but It's pretty miserable. I have bad dreams get hot, cold, pain in my joints and toss and turn.

Two days later I am exhausted and want to sleep all day and so it continues.

 

[Tolkienian]

I've been fighting to sleep through the night for years. The boatload of problems includes: nightmares, night terrors, night panic attacks, sleep walking, insomnia, night sweats, and daytime sleepiness. A good night is one where I only wake up two or three times.

Currently, I'm using a sun lamp to help regulate my circadian rhythm and taking melatonin. That's gotten good nights to happen more than two nights a week, usually.