A Weekly Poll - sleep

[grandmaD]

Still takes me at least 2 hours to get to sleep, sometimes 3. Then wake after 1 or 2 hours. Then sleep for 5 hours. So, it varies. On weekends, I try and go back to sleep after the 5 hour stint and I usually get another hour sometimes 2. So, I think it is around the 6-8hour mark. I never feel like it is enough as I used to sleep 9 to 10 hours a night. I have an hours rest after lunch and often nod off for 5 to 15mins, so I reckon that helps me catch up and cope with the afternoon.

If I could go to bed at 7pm and be asleep by 9, I'd be doing well, but hubby doesn't want to go to bed when it isn't yet dark and I can't sleep until he comes to bed!

[Iggy131313]

I can't sleep until he comes to bed!

sweet! true love right there

[Iggy131313]

so far the sleep looks good for the IAWP family

[Junior]

Mine would be worse if I didn't take a supplement to boost dopamine. I'd prob only get 5 hours,broken.
It is my biggest, ongoing thing about this whole damn process.

[Mike]

Mike...even though things are really bad now, is it not like that anymore for you?

The sleeping late thing was very early on, during my long, long taper I think... I don't have the desire to sleep the day away anymore, my energy is better, and relatively speaking I am more functional. Also our schedule wouldn't allow that sleep schedule now. It was just a phase but if I had to do it over again I would have done it exactly the same way. It made sense for where I was in my recovery at that time.

[Iggy131313]

and then insomnia came after for you Mike?

[Mike]

and then insomnia came after for you Mike?

I have had insomnia off and on throughout this whole ordeal. It was severe during my Remeron taper and for years afterward. 5-6 years ago it started to improve. My sleep is "good enough" now but it's still a bit bumpy... I'll have periods of weeks in which I sleep very deeply, then periods of frequent waking in the night and not being able to get back to sleep for a couple of hours. I don't have the morning terrors anymore but when I am awake at night I can have that to lesser degree.

[Luc]

Ok, for me it's around 6 hours now and getting more smooth. In early WD, it used to be no sleep at all, maybe some mini sleep-like patches, acid in the brain and every cell of the body, non-relenting panic attacks, all limbs jerking in all directions, and million of hellish symptoms more. No way to describe it. So, even if not there yet, the improvement is undeniable.

[Luc]

How many of you are already able to experience the feeling of this more natural "sleepiness"; you go to bed b/c you're sleepy, not b/c it is "time to sleep"? (and then you have a problem with falling asleep anyway)

[Iggy131313]

I dont feel sleepy, hardly ever, last night I went to bed at 1am, got up again, went back at 2.30, got up again, I went back for the last time at 3.15 and lay awake until around 4ish, but I noticed at this point that my body wanted to aleep, it was very noticable, and I fell asleep straight away...

The other day I yawned in the evenings and it took me by surprose, I realised that it has been a long time since I have yawned, crazy