Posted by Samantha on November 15, 2009 at 02:43:36:

In Reply to: Re: Sudden onset of insomnia. posted by electracat on November 14, 2009 at 21:54:34:

Yes, I see how the first line could have come across as negative. It's how I started and I don't want to see another person end up in the same situation as me. I didn't mean your insomnia was long term, it's just that when you start worrying about getting to sleep and it takes over your daytime thought processes and gets in the way of concentration, it gets out of hand. If you can 'nip it in the bud' so to speak, like I should have done, you will be absolutely fine.

I didn't get help for 10 years and each year (in winter) I would start with insomnia then the anxiety would start, then I would lose the plot. I was given promazine, citalopram, amitrpitylene, zopiclone, diazapam and finally, quitiapine. I stuck with the quitiapine as it was the only drug I could stomach and didn't lose it's effect. I wish I had never, ever touched any of them. I got in a terrible, terrible mess all because I woke up one night with sudden panic and uncontrollable thoughts and I thought I was dying. I have had blood tests, pap tests (they do that even if you go to the docs with a headache!) upper body scan and had my heart rate and blood pressure monitored. I have had my thyroid checked too and the only thing to come up was that I have virtually no iron in my blood and I also have IBS. Aside from that there is nothing wrong with me! Anyway, I have been in the bottom of the pit and clawed my way back out several times. I also have a form of sleep apnea which keeps waking me up but that's something I have only recently discovered so I need to work on that.

People do tend to read things in forums and take it the wrong way, then they jump down your throat for it, so I think I will make this my last post on here.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Sudden onset of insomnia. Jackson 17:43 11/15/09 (0)
• Re: Sudden onset of insomnia. unwind 05:23 11/15/09 (0)

---