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Posted by sleeplessinPA on May 30, 2009 at 07:16:07:

Hi! First of all..great website! I am so glad I found it. There is more information and moral support coming off of this site than any of the 6 sleep books I have. I have a problem/question I hope someone can shed some light on. I am a woman in her early 60s who like all of you was once a good sleeper and suffered a bout of insomnia starting late last summer. Stayed up 2 nights to watch the Olympics and got screwed up from there. I have sleep maintenance insomnia mainly with a little sleep onset. We were planning a big trip overseas in a month and I feared that the insomnia would ruin the trip so the worry about it ruining the trip snowballed from there. Sleep fine on vacation and even 2 weeks after I got back. Then it all started over again. My wake up time started to go back farther and farther every night until it finally reached around 2:00 in the early morning. Couldn't understand why it did this since I wasn't thinking about anything stressful. Anyway, like everyone here I have tried everything and then some. I am now trying to do sleep restriction upon the advise of my sleep dr. and have to keep abandoning it because when I don't get enough good sleep, I wake up to early or it is fragmented, I am so agitated, restless, shaky, my head, face and ears feel hot and I feel nauseated AND with the little SR I tried these symptoms become munch much worse...with 2- 3 hrs. of sleep. IF I am lucky to get some dream/deep sleep that night, these symptoms virtually disappears. I feel so much better, calmer and relaxed. IS ANY OF THIS NORMAL? Should I just forget about it and tough it out? I hate this because I don't want to abandon the SR therapy because I think it will really really help me. Any advise?

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