Lexicon78
11-20-2006, 01:37 AM
I've been having a really hard time sleeping...
My mom died about 2 years ago from a terrible cancer that no one would touch and I really haven't been able to sleep since.
My sleep has been tapering off for the past 2 years. Currently I'm sleeping at 4-6 hours at the most and I can only sleep for and hour or two at a time. I've even tried OTC sleep medicines like Unisom and Simply Sleep and maybe sleep 15-30 minutes more than that at a time. I tried to get my psych doc to prescribe me some kind of medicine to help me sleep but unfortunately from what I've heard, this doctor is highly unwilling to prescribe any type of sleep medicine to anyone.
I'm really at my wits end at this point. I can't sleep until after 3 am (my mom died around 3 am so I'm guessing that's the problem) and when I do I only sleep the first hour and then I'm up again. I really don't know what to do...
Thanks for listening.
My mom died about 2 years ago from a terrible cancer that no one would touch and I really haven't been able to sleep since.
My sleep has been tapering off for the past 2 years. Currently I'm sleeping at 4-6 hours at the most and I can only sleep for and hour or two at a time. I've even tried OTC sleep medicines like Unisom and Simply Sleep and maybe sleep 15-30 minutes more than that at a time. I tried to get my psych doc to prescribe me some kind of medicine to help me sleep but unfortunately from what I've heard, this doctor is highly unwilling to prescribe any type of sleep medicine to anyone.
I'm really at my wits end at this point. I can't sleep until after 3 am (my mom died around 3 am so I'm guessing that's the problem) and when I do I only sleep the first hour and then I'm up again. I really don't know what to do...
Thanks for listening.
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Ekris3
11-20-2006, 10:27 AM
OMG I could have written your post! I too am having a terrible time sleeping since the death of my parents. The problems go back to right before my Dad passed away in Aug '04. Haven't been able to sleep since. My Mom then died in Nov '05. They both died at 550am (how wierd is that) and I was sitting up with them all night the night before when there were things going on. Now I have a hard time falling asleep and then when I do, I only sleep until 2-3am. I'm then up for a couple of hours though sometimes I start my day at that time. It's crazy. Have tried Melatonin and it helped me fall asleep, but not stay asleep. Have also tried Lunesta and Ambien CR, neither of which worked. Psychologist tells me that my mind won't let the sleep meds work because I'm still dealing with everything that happened. Said the hours are significant also due to what I was watching at that time. I'm at my wits end here...feel like I could be a much nicer person if I could just get some sleep!