Nights of the Living Insomniac

It's 4:30 am, a pretty typical night for me. Try to go to bed before midnight, toss and turn for a couple of hours sometimes I fall asleep, sometimes I'm up, like tonight; and that is with taking prescription sleep meds. I thought I had it figured out. I've been dealing with insomnia for about 16 months now. It first started out with me waking up in around 3 am with an anxiety attack, for no reason. I wasn't stressed, I was back living with my parents, no school, no work, nothing. But I couldn't get sleep and it was making me go crazy. Fast forward a year later, still dealing with insomnia issues but after trying different sleep medications, going and doing a sleep study, I got on a better sleeping schedule. I was doing really well in January. I was only taking my anti-anxiety medication at night to help me fall asleep and keep my anxiety down (another side effect of the Lyme disease), but as soon as I started on antibiotics, it's like my body does not want to sleep, it does, but I am so messed up on my sleep cycle that I get sometimes only 4 hours a night or sometimes 11, which usually puts me at waking up around noon or later. It's been a frustrating cycle, one I need to break. If sleep medication isn't helping I need to find out if maybe my antibiotics and everything else I'm taking is making me not sleep. I need sleep, not just because it's restful, but also because I need it to get healthy and well. The more stress I put on my body, the more time it will take for me to get over this, and believe me 18 months is long enough to feel this way. I'm hoping just a couple more months and I'm back to being normal and well.