Mystery :Sudden onset insomnia
Question:
You have insomnia! I too never had trouble sleeping (other than being a night owl) and then suddenly one night, last December 1 I couldn’t sleep at all! Since then I haven’t slept without taking a sleeping pill, although I’ve stayed up for days trying. Insomnia can strike suddenly, and for no perceivable reason. I think it must be some sort of unknown virus or something that gets into the sleep centers in your brain. I can’t seem to justify its sudden onset and tenacity any other way. I have other theories too, but I think sleep doctors are much to complacent diagnosing anxiety or depression. —–== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==—– http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading
Response:
I’ve noted this before, but in my experience "total insomnia" can come several weeks after trying a new drug or something that screws up your brain chemistry balance. with me, is was a single prozac, causing lizards inmy brain for 3 weeks followed by months of total insomnia. For others, St John’s Wort seems to be implicated… though i had it after a heavy week of benadryl too, after an allergy attack. It *absolutely* occurs, and it can be gotten past; though you need the sleep meds to save your life initially, and then getting off them is so hard that it’s easy to believe the problem is permanent. it ain’t In article <6hisak$e9…@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dios…@iscweb.com wrote: > You have insomnia! I too never had trouble sleeping (other than being a night > owl) and then suddenly one night, last December 1 I couldn’t sleep at all! > Since then I haven’t slept without taking a sleeping pill, although I’ve > stayed up for days trying. Insomnia can strike suddenly, and for no > perceivable reason. I think it must be some sort of unknown virus or something > that gets into the sleep centers in your brain. I can’t seem to justify its > sudden onset and tenacity any other way. I have other theories too, but I > think sleep doctors are much to complacent diagnosing anxiety or depression. > —–== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==—– > http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading
—–== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==—– http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading
