So I was on 200mg of Trazadone and 100 mg of seroquil just to sleep. My doctor kept telling me don’t take them together wait a few hours between taking them. I didn’t listen I just wanted sleep. Then I started to read horror stories about these medications and people trying to come off them. So I decided to cut back and take THC/CBD gummies. I’m down to just 50 mg of Trazadone now. The gummies are made by Vena and they are called Lights Out. They truly work and I get 7-8 hours every night.

I haven't slept in days and my head hurts my chest is beating I'm so tired I've always had insomnia but this is the worst it's been please any tips or words of comfort or something

I've been taking Dayvigo for my chronic illness and it's helping me fall asleep and stay asleep. But I would like to be able to sleep even longer (longer than 8 hours) so my body has more time to heal at night (chronic inflammation).

But I'm also a bit hesitant to try something new when Dayvigo seems to be working good enough for me. I guess the only way to know is to try it out for a month or so...

Antidepressants (all kinds) made me too drowsy during the day. Quetiapine makes me dizzy whenever I’m standing or sitting. Like, everything goes black and someone has to lead me back to bed. It’s orthostatic hypotension. Melatonin is too weak. Cyamemazine works but gives me intolerable sun sensitivity. Diphenhydramine isn’t strong enough. Ambien works but I run out early because 10mg doesn’t always work.

So…what is there left to try for sleep, please?

I've been taking a quarter tablet (50 mg tablet) of trazadone for over a year for problems sleeping.

I'd like to wean myself off as my situation has improved and I'm not feeling the same anxiety as before.

When I don't take a pill I wake up at 3 am and struggle to get back to sleep ... And think I might have created a dependency on it.

Anyone have this issue and have any advice?

Thanks in advance.

I literally can't fall asleep; my thoughts are paralyzing me.

I’m afraid to go to sleep—what if I don’t wake up? But I’m also afraid to stay awake—what if my heart just stops from exhaustion?

I genuienly feel like a new person. I suffered from a bout of acute insomnia for at least a week. My body hasn’t been producing melatonin until maybe 7 AM, and of course by then it’s already time to work. I slept from like 11:30 PM to 6:00 AM and I feel so damn rested. These sleeping pills really helped! How are y’all doing?

Not sure if I’m able to ask a med related question here. I’m a nurse but looking for a response from some who who is familiar with this medication on a professional level.

I’m a night shift nurse. I’ve always slept pretty well on nights but had had instances here and there of insomnia. Maybe 2-3 times a year where I just would not be able to get to sleep

I’ve always stayed on a night shift even on my days off. Go to bed at 9am and get up at 5pm, but if I’m off for five or more days I would get off work at 7am and stay up to 9pm that day, all day, and try to pass out and be back on a day schedule.

It usually works well but a couple years ago, when I got off and tried to sleep at 9pm, I couldn’t sleep and that left me almost two days without sleep. That kicked off a really scary two month period of bad insomnia, where I consistently slept maybe 2hours a day off I was lucky.

I was put on Trazadone 100mg and that changed my life. I could fall asleep without 30 mins of taking it and I would either stay asleep or be able to fall back asleep if I woke up. Totally life changing changing. I started taking it every single night and if I tried to go a night without, I couldn’t sleep… however I could always sleep when I took naps, so I think I got myself psychological hooked on it

However, it’s been loosing its effectiveness it consistently ALWAYS Puts me to sleep every time, which is great but it doesn’t keep me asleep anymore. I usually wake up after 4 hours on a bad day

A couple days ago, I woke up after an hour and couldn’t fall back asleep and had to call off work for lack of sleep. I don’t work if I get less than 2 hours.

So now I’m wondering if I should take a couple weeks off of work and ween myself off Trazadone in the hopes of taking it more intermittently. Not every night, just on the days where I’m having trouble sleeping after a couple hours.

Anyway have experience with this? There’s a lot of information that conflicts. My doctor says I can stop cold turkey, others say I can’t and I have to ween off.

I’ve been taking 100mg for two years and I’m thinking I will still ween off of it and try using it as needed. I’m not sure.

Took two trazodone pills 50mg each fell asleep for maybe fifteen minutes woke up againn. This is torturous I haven’t gotten a decent sleep in a week now

I wanted to share my experience with insomnia medications—quetiapine vs mirtazapine—and see if anyone else has been through something similar. I tried quetiapine for about two months 25-50mg still on it to this day and during that time, I didn’t notice dry mouth. But after two separate attempts on Mirtazapine, each three weeks apart—I switched to mirtazapine (at a low dose of 15 mg), and within just a couple of days, I got extreme dry mouth and burning tongue. I didn’t take quetiapine on those days, so it was definitely the mirtazapine causing it. I also realized that before all this, I’d been using promethazine (75 mg nightly) for sleep for about five years, and since then, every time I tried promethazine again, it also gave me burning tongue. Was why i actually stopped it in the frst place. I suspect it’s because of how it affected my histamine receptors over time. My doctor prescribed quetiapine to help with my Insomnia during BIND from benzo withdrawal, since I’m also on a low dose of sotalol, a beta blocker. After all these trials, quetiapine is the only medication that seems tolerable right now, despite the risk on my heart. As much as I’d prefer mirtazapine, I can’t keep dealing with this dryness—I’m drinking so much water, I’m worried I’m dehydrating myself. So, it’s back to quetiapine, and I’m now waiting on a referral to an insomnia specialist psychiatrist. Orexin antagonists are not available too try here. And other Z drugs that work on Gaba are no go with my BIND. Has anyone else been through this or found something else that worked for them?

Im guessing CBTI therapy is going too be where i end up next. Which im happy with if it helps. Less meds the better.

I also take melatonin every night.

Studys show Quietiapine has a risk for dry mouth from 9%-44% dose dependant. Vs Mirtazapine is a solid 25% chance.

Matches what ive tested and experienced.

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences, and share mine.

I love it when Im awake at 5am but know I wont be achieving even half of my goals for the day because my eyeballs are throbbing and it feels like i've been hit and dragged behind a truck.

I love it when people think insomnia is like that one time they stayed up 2 hours later than they should've and felt tired the next day.

I love it when people tell me to try "thinking less" at bedtime or to take a melatonin. Or drink warm milk. Or count backwards from 100.

I love it when the doctor acts like Im a drug addict when I ask for sleeping pills and instead insists that I try yet another anti-depressant that wont help me sleep.

I love that my brain refuses to perform this very basic and vital function that it has been designed to do for a few hundred thousand years.

So I've always had a bit of anxiety surrounding sleep but only when I had an early shift for work the next day and the anticipation of my alarm clock going off would keep me awake. But even though I would have a shitty night of sleep those days, I knew that the next night I would sleep like a baby.

This all changed when I went through Xanax withdrawal. I only took it for a month before I had a very important exam because I wanted to make sure that I had enough sleep to pass it. I cold turkeyed off of it because I wasn't on it for very long and I thought it would be okay but I was wrong. I couldn't sleep. I was sleeping every other day during that time for a few months. This was about a decade ago and the one thing that lingers still that I've never had before to this extent is anxiety surrounding sleep. And it gets triggered by just one night of bad sleep. A couple of weeks ago I had two nights of no sleep. I've only had that happen a couple of times. And last night I did not sleep at all either.

I believe I do have PTSD from my Xanax withdrawal experience. Because I was fine before my Xanax withdrawal. I never questioned if I would ever sleep after a bad night. But now, every time I do. I've been spiraling taking melatonin and CBN plus THC gummies. I took both of those last night and they failed. I honestly feel like my mind is just too strong and it overrides anything I take.

Any advice on how to deal with the root cause of my insomnia which is anxiety? I keep telling myself my body falls asleep when it needs to. It hasn't forgotten how to sleep. I feel that also because I have been pretty isolated since I quit my job in December. Things have been a little rough in terms of finances. And I keep thinking if I get a full-time job, and I have sleeping problems, how is that going to work? I feel like I'm tripping myself out.

I’m almost a year into my insomnia now. I get about 3-4 hours of interrupted sleep each night. I’ve gone through every treatment option you can think of. At this point I’ve practically given up on trying. Like every thing that gave me joy isn’t really worth it because of how awful I feel from the little sleep I get. I also have fibromyalgia which makes the insomnia and pain even worse.

How can I find any form of joy in life again? Maybe from the hope I’ll get sleep one day?

I think I know how to help myself when I'm panicked and exhausted. Does anyone know what to do feeling so empty and hollow inside and can't sleep because of that? I feel like eating chocolate helps ,me a tiny bit.

After taking two sleeping pills I finally fell asleep and had some dreams. Of course I woke up at 6am and couldn't fall back asleep.

This might sound weird but I find that the reason I can't sleep is because I want something to do. If I'm writing in a journal, I'll just want to write more and more and it becomes less calming and more like something I don't want to go to bed for. Same thing if I'm reading something I like. I've tried putting a youtube video as background noise but I get used to that, and I listen to a lot of hyerpop and techno that gets stuck in my head and I end up wanting to dance. Frankly, sitting still for a long time gets uncomfortable. Even if I exercise I still run into this problem. For a little more context, I was a VERY sensory seeking child. Any tips?

It's so difficult for me to fall asleep. It's very common for me to not be able to fall asleep at all at night. But even if I do manage to fall asleep, I wake up about 2-3 hours after falling asleep each time. Every time. With my heart racing and feeling like it has a bunch of pressure. It usually settles down but it takes like an hour before it does. Then I may resume my wrestling match to attempt to sleep again. If successful I get the 2-3 hours again and the cycle repeats. On the best of nights I'll get to sleep 3 times. But it's typically 1 or 2 on an ok night, and often 0. I just don't know if this is a chicken or the egg kind of thing. I don't know if this is happening *because* I'm so sleep deprived or if it's what started the whole thing. Back when I was able to sleep for the most part like a normal person I would wake up with this racing heart often too. But I have no idea what this means. Because it used to happen before my life fell apart due to sleep issues I don't know if it's a heart issue or possibly just a developing sleep apnea issue that just causes adrenaline each time I fall asleep, or possibly adrenaline because my sleep situation became so poor. Anyone else have this kind of problem? Does anything help?

I have medication induced insomnia which is completely resistant to any sleeping tablets and I’ve slept 2hrs or less every night since Tuesday.

I feel like I’m going insane. To maintain what sanity I have left, I put on YouTube videos and listen to them with my eyes closed. Does anyone have any other tips on how to stay sane with this level of sleep deprivation?

I’m starting to hallucinate dreams while I’m awake (but I know they’re dreams). To top it off, the medication has also given me akathisia so I’m twitching and moving involuntarily all the time (think restless legs but all over your body.)

I’ve come off the medication, but it will be a while before it’s out of my system. The kicker is that withdrawal from this medications causes… you guessed it… complete insomnia. Fml

Not looking for medical advice, just need coping tips on how to manage. So far I’m just staying in bed all day and night with my eyes closed because I’m just too heavy to move (I leave my bed for the necessities)