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<blockquote data-quote="steelfingers" data-source="post: 3967294" data-attributes="member: 38658"><p>I've had insomnia since the age of 8. It was mild and got worse over the years (I'm now 67). Sometimes it was bad. I know some people talk about having no sleep for weeks on end, but for me, I don't think so. I've gone two full days with zero sleep and that's about my limit where my body prepares to explode. At or near day three, I collapse. I've read where people kept a journal during this period and I say BS. I couldn't even consider what tht would be like or how to pull it off because when you get to that point of no sleep, for me, it's been after a week or two of struggle and then no sleep. Your heart is racing madly, and your though process has left the building. Keeping a journal would not be a task I could accomplish or remember to do.</p><p>Now I' talking about non drug related sleep deprivations. Where your body no longer knows how to sleep. </p><p>It sucks and it can kill you. </p><p>They say you'll grow out of it, or, they had it and just did this or that and it worked. Well good for you. None of us are alike. Here's a nice golf clap for ya</p><p></p><p>Now go see a sleep doctor. It didn't work for me because there's no way I could sleep in one of those rooms knowing people are watching and trying to monitor your brain waves during REM. I never slept a wink but at least it gave them (DR.s) a starting point. From there a lot of test to see in I had a physical or psychological isssue. Well no physical anyway..Ha.</p><p>There will be other test, so take them and don't complain. It's a processs.</p><p>None of this worked for me. So then we started down the big pharm trail. This is where I needed to be critically honest with my Dr. which a lot of people dont. Some stuff they gave me had worse symtoms than the ones I wanted to rid myslef of. Others made me nauseous, light headed or druged out. That's ok. Tell them. Eventually I found a drug mild enought I had no problems driving or handeling a program which had stacks of stress like pancakes at IHOP. Ha. I didn't feel drowsy or even medicated. I just felt normal when I went to bed and sleep came again.</p><p>So the long answer I have is this. Don't give up/if the Dr. you have has given up, fire him and get another. You will find a path. It just takes going down some dust ass trails often, but you'lll find the right one</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steelfingers, post: 3967294, member: 38658"] I've had insomnia since the age of 8. It was mild and got worse over the years (I'm now 67). Sometimes it was bad. I know some people talk about having no sleep for weeks on end, but for me, I don't think so. I've gone two full days with zero sleep and that's about my limit where my body prepares to explode. At or near day three, I collapse. I've read where people kept a journal during this period and I say BS. I couldn't even consider what tht would be like or how to pull it off because when you get to that point of no sleep, for me, it's been after a week or two of struggle and then no sleep. Your heart is racing madly, and your though process has left the building. Keeping a journal would not be a task I could accomplish or remember to do. Now I' talking about non drug related sleep deprivations. Where your body no longer knows how to sleep. It sucks and it can kill you. They say you'll grow out of it, or, they had it and just did this or that and it worked. Well good for you. None of us are alike. Here's a nice golf clap for ya Now go see a sleep doctor. It didn't work for me because there's no way I could sleep in one of those rooms knowing people are watching and trying to monitor your brain waves during REM. I never slept a wink but at least it gave them (DR.s) a starting point. From there a lot of test to see in I had a physical or psychological isssue. Well no physical anyway..Ha. There will be other test, so take them and don't complain. It's a processs. None of this worked for me. So then we started down the big pharm trail. This is where I needed to be critically honest with my Dr. which a lot of people dont. Some stuff they gave me had worse symtoms than the ones I wanted to rid myslef of. Others made me nauseous, light headed or druged out. That's ok. Tell them. Eventually I found a drug mild enought I had no problems driving or handeling a program which had stacks of stress like pancakes at IHOP. Ha. I didn't feel drowsy or even medicated. I just felt normal when I went to bed and sleep came again. So the long answer I have is this. Don't give up/if the Dr. you have has given up, fire him and get another. You will find a path. It just takes going down some dust ass trails often, but you'lll find the right one [/QUOTE]
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