Insomnia getting worse

[Starfish_]

This past week my sleep schedule has almost reversed. I cannot sleep at night so I sleep into the afternoon. I've been averaging sleeping around 5am (anywhere 4-7 really) and I'll wake up somewhere between 11-2. Even those days I sleep a lot, I wake up exhausted and have to force myself out of bed. I take modafinil but take it no later than 10am and its a low dose. I still have a little bit before classes start again but I just don't know how to get my sleeping back on track. There was no inciting incident that made it change and if I force myself to get up earlier, well I fall asleep again anyway. Im considering pulling an all nighter to try and break the cycle, but thats not ideal. Im just really stressed and depressed and this is not helping :/

[Millie09]

Hi starfish, I'm the same but very little sleep at all , i don't sleep until after 5am , then I'm up between 8-9am ,don't sleep during the day ,yet I used to have an hour or so late afternoon, but even this has stopped, around a month ago , so if I do happen to nod off its usually when watching TV around 11pm , maybe later , and I do not know I have fallen asleep either.

I take pregabalin for my neuropathy and restless legs , I can't take certain mess as I have an underlying chronic medical condition.

I find just going with the flow now helps me come to term with the fact I have issues.

[vballgirl]

I've been sleeping similarly. I can't fall asleep until about 9am. Then I sleep until 6pm. I'm not sure how to reverse it. My doctor took me off of zopicline and everything has been upside down since then. I've also been depressed. I can't offer much but to say you are not alone.

[Silentrider60]

Hi Starfish,I too deal with insomnia since I was 3 mos. Old. Born with asthma my world was up side down. When I got older try to learn to live with it. But with the stress I lived with was very hard with his abuse I just learn to sleep some where and had a alarm clock to wake me when I knew my parents get off work. The basement was my safe place, since my dad would beat up standing up to him all the time. From my bad memories of those growing up years until I left home and to this day, those memories still haunt me to this day, without medication or therapy. When I fear something I find myself sleeping in the closet , and all this virus shit got me being deeper hidden in the darkest place in my boyfriend's home, he knows why. Sleep when it's comfortable for you it's hard enough to sleep on a sleep pattern, and don't beat yourself up, your body needs it's sleep and it will be better when you finds the pattern that works for you. And God's with you every second , He is always with you when people are not always with you. He hears our prayers, but he wants us to trust him. Will support you. Janet