sleep better come back soon !!!!!

[steve1220]

cause i'm at the end of my rope !!!!!!!!

[onthefence]

day 40 for me and I still am training myself to sleep again with "light therapy" light cycle plays important role,and the proper use of melatonin, also I stay busy all day from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm, (sometimes a short rest at 100 pm) , physical work is good (like tryin to get tired when in (SHU) segregation, lots of pushups jumpin jacks etc, just so one can be tired when night comes (if able to do physical of course) also mind work, TM, (Transcendental meditation, counting games, poetry, writing fiction etc.).
just tryin to give suggestions of things that have worked for me while being free and wanting to be off drugs , and while being incarcerated and Not wanting to be off drugs but having no choice, do anything but take addictive chemicals if you can help it, all the benzo class drugs even the sleeping ones will make it hard to sleep in the end and cause anxiety, i am told by many Doctors, Psych. Md.  Do, etc.

[Teri9498]

   Hey Steve...I'm with ya on the sleep thing!..Ugh!...today is 28 days for me and I've gotten very little sleep....nothing works for me either...someone on here told me to just surrender to it and know that it's only temporary...so that has helped some...but it definitely s**cks!...I feel like I'm never going to sleep again!....

[gnarly_1]

Steve I thought you got a couple of nights sleep it not unusual to go in and out for a wile dont worrie it will come back your close if your getting a night here and there hang in there you'll make it threw this  keep posting for support good luck and God bless........Gnarly

[Pat1956100]

I figured that it would be 96 hours and I would start to feel better.  Now it's already down to about 72.  I don't know why but it's working for me. It's just a long weekend to suffer through and I can have the rest of my life back and feel good living it.  

[minn66]

Guys, I know where you're coming from. You're doing great and gradually the Sandman will visit you more frequently. Sleep was the last thing to come for me, too. It reminded me of when my son was a baby.

Pat, you've got the right attitude of just taking it an hour at a time. It will get better. I realize it is easy to say yet trust me, it does. It's the old "it takes time" thing.

Y'all keep up the excellent work and hang in there!

[Pat1956100]

19 days, wow, I freak out after 40 hours.  It will get better as you know.  I am still looking forward to 19 days.  Actually just looking forward to day 5 when hopefully the worst of this is over.  I can almost say I am on day 2 again.
I seriously am just taking it hour by hour now.  Every hour that passes is another hour closer to this being over.

[steve1220]

thanks charlie.......it's been 19 days with very,verry little sleep !!! it's starting to wear me down

[charliej41]

Hang in there it will start to get better it su*ks I know it just takes time what I did was tell myself when I lay down I going to rest if I sleep great try not to worry about seem to me the more I think about not get no sleep the harder it was. It get better good luck

[steve1220]

hey pat.... yea i've tried everything even sleeping pill from the dr !!!! nothing works

[Pat1956100]

Hang in there Steve, please.  It will come.  Have you tried gravol??  It used to knock me out. Of course nothing works now and long term use isn't a good idea but it might be enough to give you some relief.  Don't buy the non drowsy ones lol.