New here. Can't sleep.

[Mauragd]

Hello. My name is Maura. I feel i am having a nervous breakdown. I have had some strange issues lately. It started out with stomach issues. Then dizziness. And now for about a month I cannot sleep. Maybe a couple hours a night. I am taking xanax .25 mg and meclezine. I don't think they are working. I am exhausted. I feel of I get a good night of sleep I will feel better. But right now I'm at the end of my rope.

[scollins148967]

Hi Maura, I know how you feel. My anxiety presents itself with dizziness, and I haven't had a really good night's sleep in years. I can sleep for a couple of hours at a time, then i wake up. Most of the time I can go back to sleep, but not always. I always have Bonine on hand (over the counter meclezine). Can I ask how old you are? I just turned 50 and I am blaming a lot of it on hormones, but I have had anxiety my whole life, so I know it is that too. I have been on zoloft (25mg) for about 15 years, and have done really well, but my anxiety has gotten worse the last few months. Not sure if I should ask my doctor about increasing the zoloft or even ask about trying a new med. It's exhausting.

[Loki1018]

Hey Maura I know exactly what your talking about. I finally started to get treated maybe about 4 months if that because I finally came to terms that there is something wrong. So I'm going on about a little over a week where I only get 2-3hra of sleep and I too take .25mg of xanax and I'm such a tiny person around 110-115lbs 5'2 in height so I'm the beginning I would have to take half of that in order to function because it would literally knock me off my feet but as of right now .25mg hasn't even been able to knock me out. Just the other night I couldn't take it anymore so at 2am I took a bunch of plates and glasses and went at it with a hammer. I also have bipolar depression and with anxiety it's so I can be a hot mess. I definitely have my highs and lows and a lot of the times I have to wear a mask of fake happy me when that's really not the case. I work in a hospital and am a surgical technologist/ obstetrics tech and constantly have lives on my hands. But the funny thing is I can have the world falling apart for me but when it's time to be in that OR everything disappears at for the hours that I'm in there I'm ok. When I'm not kept busy it's when it's the worst but then again I barely have the energy after work to even keep my self busy so now I do nothing and my mind starts to mess with me along with thoughts and emotions and then anxiety knocks on the door and everything blows up.

[shannon_nicole777]

Who prescribed the Xanax? Maybe increase it? But I'd ask your Dr first....