Hello All
I’m hoping someone out there has had the same experience as me as I am completely at a loss with it all.
It all started about 5 months ago.
I would go to sleep fine & wake up in the night in a sweat. Fall back asleep but feel like I hadn’t slept.
Gradually over the weeks this got worse to the point where I couldn’t get to sleep at all.
I’ve been to the docs prescribed amitriptyline - worked intermittently then not at all.
Phenergan - didn’t work, just made me sweat.
Zopiclone - worked for one night then became very ineffective.
Mirtazapine - worked for 1 week - currently on 2nd week & have become ineffective.
The one thing that worries me about my insomnia is I have no natural feelings of tiredness anymore. It’s just pure exhaustion. I went 48 hours unable to fall asleep & finally succumbed to it & fell asleep for half an hour.
This all happened at a time where I had started exercising & improving my fitness, therefore my mental health & sleep should have been better than ever. I did everything within my power to improve my sleep before turning to medication, this was the one road I didn’t want to go down. I don’t get any DOMS when exercising anymore.
Medication appears to become very ineffective very quickly.
It’s seriously affected my quality of life to the point my immune system was so down I couldn’t recover from a cough & cold for about 3/4 weeks. Any sleep I get isn’t natural or refreshing so my body just constantly aches. I got to the point I couldn’t function mentally & I am now off work trying to find a solution.
Any help would be much appreciated, this is like torture.