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Insomnia caused by grief...

Posted by lostguy on October 16, 2003 at 10:38:20:

My wife lost a pregnancy at 20 weeks. It was a long drawn-out process and has left me with some kind of insomnia. I have been seeing a psychiatrist for the last few weeks and have tried various medications.

For the first few weeks, 2 mg of lorazapam worked fine. After that, I began waking up after about 4 hours and was unable to fall back to sleep. My pshrink had me start taking 50mg of trazodone and cut back to 1.5 mg of lorazapam. With that I woke up and needed another 1mg of lorazapam to fall back to sleep.

I tried 75 mg trazodone last night but still woke up needing more lorazapam. It seems like everytime I reduce the lorazapam dose I wake up needing more.

I've never had insomnia and feel just awful. The grief feels much worse after not sleeping and it's compounded by having to function at work (where I am paid to think). From these forums, I see that some of you have
survived this for years. I don't know how you do it!

While my wife mentally recovers, I'm supposed to be the strong support guy but I really feel like I'm "cracking up". My pshrink is hesitant to put me on anti-depressants (Trazodone is only being use for sleep) because after this type of trauma I am supposed to feel crappy.

In the mean time, I am both exhausted and feel horrible, Have any of you developed insomnia because of a traumatic experience? How long did it take before you returned to normal?

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