cam94zee
08-05-11, 09:22
This happens to me from time to time, and ambien improves things usually. But it has been getting worse again lately. After watching all of the stuff on the news about mass animal deaths, possible pole shift from the "nonexistent" planet nearing earth, etc... My mind started spinning.
Last night I managed to sleep about 2 hours, woke up with my mind racing random incoherent thoughts. It felt like I was half asleep/half awake with very fast random thoughts racing through my head. This bothered me so I got up and didn't bother to try sleeping again. I worked 5 hours on less than 2 hours sleep. Came home, fell asleep about 4pm. I woke up at 7pm with the same thing.
It's 4am now. I have to work at 9am today. The previous thoughts coupled with anxiety over going through another miserable work day (yesterday was REALLY miserable), this time on no sleep, is actually keeping me from sleeping. Every time I lay down my legs want to keep moving, and I get a lump in the back of my throat that seems to get worse the longer I lay there and try to sleep. Occasionally I'll feel myself to start dozing off but I'm jerked immediately back into wakefulness. Getting up and trying again later results in the same thing.
I did take about half a pill of ambien both previous times I tried to sleep. I think I'm just too agitated to relax fully.
Any ideas on what I can do or take to calm myself down? I was never one for trying exercises, but if it makes the lump and anxiety go away I'm all for it.
Last night I managed to sleep about 2 hours, woke up with my mind racing random incoherent thoughts. It felt like I was half asleep/half awake with very fast random thoughts racing through my head. This bothered me so I got up and didn't bother to try sleeping again. I worked 5 hours on less than 2 hours sleep. Came home, fell asleep about 4pm. I woke up at 7pm with the same thing.
It's 4am now. I have to work at 9am today. The previous thoughts coupled with anxiety over going through another miserable work day (yesterday was REALLY miserable), this time on no sleep, is actually keeping me from sleeping. Every time I lay down my legs want to keep moving, and I get a lump in the back of my throat that seems to get worse the longer I lay there and try to sleep. Occasionally I'll feel myself to start dozing off but I'm jerked immediately back into wakefulness. Getting up and trying again later results in the same thing.
I did take about half a pill of ambien both previous times I tried to sleep. I think I'm just too agitated to relax fully.
Any ideas on what I can do or take to calm myself down? I was never one for trying exercises, but if it makes the lump and anxiety go away I'm all for it.