Wanting to go back to sleep after waking is the best feeling on the weekend where you do just stay in bed and cuddle up in the blankets.
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It's so bad that i set an alarm on the weekend
I absolutely hate when I have to set my alarm on the weekend. its evil. or on a holiday.
Oh god it has become like a weird sport for me.
Like when i was young, i could just sleep all day with no problem. Now i can't really, but i can set my alarm on 7am on a saturday and hit snooze until it's noon. I'll have a new dream every 15 minutes and it's super fun.
I mean, unfortunately, I will still sometimes get up at 6am or something even without an alarm. But the knowledge that I don't have to get up. priceless.
I set an alarm for like an hour before I actually have to get up, every day. Not sure if it's helping or hurting at this point but I get to go back to bed
ooh. thats a tough one. problem is I just have to get up to early. Oh man I miss my second shift gig where everyday was like a weekend.
I do that too. I don't think it helps at all. But when i hear the alarm and i immediately have to get up, i get angry
Honestly, I held out so long talking to my doc about insomnia. I was pretty miserable due to it, I’d get 5-6 hours of sleep a night. Once I talked to my doc and got some meds to help, holy shit what a change! Now I’m getting a full 8 hours and I’m so much happier throughout the day
What meds? I tried zopiclone and found the hangover significantly worse than just dealing with the sleep deprivation
Zopiclone didn’t work too well for me, so he put me on gabapentin and that was moderately good. Finally I’m on trazodone and this is working great.
Damn, got my hopes up. Don't get me wrong I'm super glad trazodone works for you, but man it seems like every insomnia treatment "success story" I've heard goes the same way: "tried x, tried y, tried traz which worked great". I know it shouldn't, but it makes me really disheartened since trazodone failed miserably for me. Where other meds did nothing at all, traz put me in a fugue zombie like state where I was uncomfortably tired, but if anything even more incapable of actually sleeping. The sleep specialist I was seeing gave up on me so I'm just kinda raw dogging life now.
Which ones have you tried? I have quite a few friends that are docs or in residency and really just want to pass on something that can make peoples lives better.
Honestly I don't fully remember, this was all back in 2019 and my memory is pretty shit. Gabapentin sounds very familiar so I'm guessing that was one of them, other than that and the traz, I tried two others but I can't recall the name of them. I also was on seroquel as a kid; it wasn't primarily for sleep but felt it worth mentioning since it basically felt like super trazodone, in a bad way.
Does weed help you at all?
It's better than nothing, but not really. It's a massive help for preventing migraines though, I'll give it that lol.
I really want to sleep more than 5-6 hours per night, but I also really do not want to rely on GABAergics/benzos for sleep. Besides, doctors in my country will rarely prescribe them anyway.
I have quietiapine in low dosage (25 mg) it helps my head relax and get me out of the brain monologue that usually keeps me awake.
Gabapentin is a lot different from Benzos in terms of addiction potential. Same with trazodone I highly recommend them just for how much they’ve helped
Try night shift for a few months. You will absolutely despise the sun because no matter how tired you are during your shift, as soon as that bastard comes up you will struggle to fall asleep as you become increasingly more frustrated at that fact, leaving you even more fatigued for your next shift and destroying your mental health. Experiencing that has totally cured my disdain for any amount of trouble falling asleep at night, because at least your body kinda knows you're supposed to be sleeping at night.
Also, the clients you have to deal with at night if you're in the service industry tends to be 10x more horrible than your average daytime Karen. I legit had someone scream at me for waking them up with an emergency call to them despite them being the ones to pay extra for 24/7 live notifications on the systems we manage for them.
(Obviously not actually saying you should actually try night shift, quite the opposite. It fucking sucks, avoid it like the plague.)
Meanwhile, I actively looked for night shift jobs because you deal with considerably less people.
I liked Night Shift. Work was slightly relaxed, few people around, able to listen to music while doing whatever, just an introverts dream really. The sun I was able to easily black out. They sell blackout curtains now you can stick to windows. $20 on Amazon and turns my room pitch black.
If you prefer it then more power to you, certainly not for me though.
Stop using your phone in bed. It will work wonders.
my brain at 3am: 6 hours of sleep is plenty, I'm finely exhausted enough to stop 
my brain at 9 am after drinking coffee: 
my brain at noon: STOP BOTHERING ME ASSHOLE! 
Try to learn math at night, it will 99% work.
Stick to a sleeping schedule. Works wonders
I wish that were true for everyone
When trying the schedule, do you go to sleep at the same time or do you get up at the same time?
Not who you asked, but the times I've tried a schedule it's been same time going to sleep. Waking up at the same time everyday would require someone pouring water on me. To guarantee I wake up on time for something I need at least 6 alarms set spread throughout the hour before the time I HAVE to get up.
Same time turning electronics off, same time going to try to sleep (half an hour later), same time getting up every day. Only the time I fell asleep varied wildly.