I have struggled for years with poor sleep. I was on Zopiclone for a very long time, which did help, but it got to the point that I was taking so many, they stopped working, when I decided to stop taking them I had a fit and ended up in A&E and lost my licence for 6 months.
I have got my licence back, but now I am surviving on 2-3 hours sleep a night, then having to go to work and do an 8 hour shift… its taking its toll on me.
I read before I try and go to sleep but I just lie there… awake and getting anxious and upset because I just cant sleep.
Does anyone have any suggestions to help me ? I am going to have to go to the doctors next week to get some more medication to help me sleep. I dont want to take tablets again in case I end up in the same situation again
I had this quite a few years ago…I was sooo tired but could not sleep…I had blood tests and they found out that I was VERY anaemic. I was put on a few iron tablets a day and that soon sorted me out.
I am taking amiptrtyline (sorry if not spelt correct) and find that thats quite good, it helps me sleep.
I do feel your pain. I too suffer with this. I have tried all sorts of things over the years but I find that it’s due to an overactive mind and if you can’t click off then that is it really. I did take ‘night all’ years ago but found they made me grumpy and feel funny the next day. I did find though that when I left a job I hated and got a bad friend out of my life I slept much much better. I was also on anti-depressants at the time so I believe they helped as well. So maybe see if there are any changes you can make in your life and mabe think of a low dose course of either anti depressants or anxiety tablets you may find they work better than sleeping pills. It’s best to get to the route of the cause.