Sorry for starting such a boring thread topic, but here it is 12:30 AM again and I'm still up. I'm tired, recovering from a cold, and know for sure that my 3 year old will be getting me up at 7:00 AM. My functioning is going down, my anxiety is going up and yet I'm having a really hard time making myself go to bed, even though I've got nothing interesting to do. For the past several weeks this has been getting worse. What's up with that? I can't figure out if it's anxiety, some weird AD/HD thing, being away from home or what. I really do need some sleep. Wish I could figure out why I'm fighting it so hard. Does anybody else relate to this at all?

Scattered:faint:

Most likely its being away from home. I absolutly cannot sleep in a strange bed and when my husband forces me to get a new bed I have weeks of sleepless nights until I get used to it.

Yeah maybe ...

It wasn't so bad at first but seems to be getting worse. Probably time to go home, but I have another week and a half to go.

Scattered

Why arent you at home?Do you mind me asking?Hopwfully nothing tramatizing like New Orleans or such....I do the same thing.Here I am instead of in bed with my husband.I have all three children and here I am!!!LOL!!!! ITS THE ONLY TIME I HAVE TO MYSELF!!! I can be me.I can relax and let the person I would like to be all during the day come out.

Can't sleep either...

I run into the insomnia issue often and erratically.
For me it's mostly driven by workload and caffeine.

Sometimes it comes from anxiety. Which is probably exacerbated by workload and caffeine. :rolleyes:

On those nights, like last night, I take my Xanax and by the time I think I'm NEVER going to get to sleep I wake up 6 hours later realizing that I forgot to make the bathroom pitstop before going to sleep. AARGH!

If you have the comorbid anxiety condition and are taking meds for it and you have an issue getting to sleep....I highly recommend waiting until bed time to take your meds. The part that stinks is I don't remember my cool dreams....always a sacrifice! Why can't we just have it all? :eyebrow:

Why arent you at home?Do you mind me asking?Hopwfully nothing tramatizing like New Orleans or such....I do the same thing.Here I am instead of in bed with my husband.I have all three children and here I am!!!LOL!!!! ITS THE ONLY TIME I HAVE TO MYSELF!!! I can be me.I can relax and let the person I would like to be all during the day come out.I'm not home because I had to have some repair work done on my cornea transplant and my kids and I are staying with my parents for a month while I see the doctor here for follow up care. What you said about late night being the only time you have to yourself to relax and be yourself rings true. I love the quiet night hours with no distractions, no one pulling at my sleeve wanting something, and no one expecting anything of me. How inconvient that my body needs sleep!:p

Scattered

I run into the insomnia issue often and erratically.
For me it's mostly driven by workload and caffeine.

Sometimes it comes from anxiety. Which is probably exacerbated by workload and caffeine. :rolleyes:

If you have the comorbid anxiety condition and are taking meds for it and you have an issue getting to sleep....I highly recommend waiting until bed time to take your meds. The part that stinks is I don't remember my cool dreams....always a sacrifice! Why can't we just have it all? :eyebrow:
Caffeine probably had something to do with it (I'm on vacation so workload isn't an issue at the moment). I took some caffeine for a headache and it was probably too late in the day. I do have a comorbid anxiety condition but I don't take any medication for it, ususually my AD/HD medicine calms the anxiety down. I really like the having it all concept -- wish I could figure out how to make that one work:cool: !

Hope you got to sleep Motorbrain! You're screen name pretty much says it all -- brain that just won't quit for such trivials as sleep and relaxation!

Thanks for your responses, ya'll!
Scattered

I take 200mgs of Traxadone and one 40mg of celexa at bedtime, and I sleep like a baby staight through the night not waking even once to pee, Between the 75mg's of Aderrall per day and that at night I'm a new man, God I love my Dr. who took the extra step in seeing me through all this process of getting (CORRECTLY DIALED IN).

Best.......chris m.

Yeah Chris, It's mighty nice when you're doctor follows through like that. It seem that I have to do my own med research and then my doctor pretty much prescribes what I ask, but I'm not an expert.

Scattered

Sorry for starting such a boring thread topic, but here it is 12:30 AM again and I'm still up. I'm tired, recovering from a cold, and know for sure that my 3 year old will be getting me up at 7:00 AM. My functioning is going down, my anxiety is going up and yet I'm having a really hard time making myself go to bed, even though I've got nothing interesting to do.
Scattered:faint:
Scattered:

This is exactly the situation I have been in for years.

For many years I took a sleeping pill but it left me grogy.

I have been on Ritalin for about 1.5 months and have found that it quiets my mind so I can sleep if I get to bed by 11:00pm.

I haven't needed a sleeping pill since.

I do find that if I stay up past 11:00 my mind starts to wander aimlessly and I can't sleep.

Good luck.

Vic

My meds helped me sleep at first too. In fact, I was usually out by 8:30 or so. Maybe I'm just staying up to late, because now I can't get to sleep -- I'll have to try hitting the hay before 11:00. I'm even home now and still up in the middle of the night. Anxiety isn't helping the sleep issue and of course the sleep issue isn't helping the anxiety. Think I need off the merry go round- I'm getting dizzy:faint: !