Sleeping pills don't work on me!

Hi,

I've pretty much had insomnia all my life, but it's been much worse in the last two weeks so I decided to try sleeping pills for the first time:

I got prescribed Imovane in it's highest dose and it made me sleep from 12am to 3am the first two nights, then it stopped working.

I went back and got a new prescription for Trazodone. I tried it yesterday: it made me feel a little weird, but did not put me to sleep.

I don't know what to do anymore. I only slept about 10 hours in the last 14 days!! I exercise, eat well, do everything right. What do you do when even medications won't work?

Thanks in advance.

Sara

i have had insominia off and on my whole life-i;m sure its got a lot to do because I'm a worrier-but over the counter-Lunesta,Ambien, don;t work-sometimes I fall asleep for an hr-and I', up for 3-crabby the next day and tired-what can I do??

i have ms, dr perscribed 150 mlg of trazadone-garbage.then gave me zipliclone,thats dindt wrk dr gave me statex morphine for pain im on 40 mls,doesnt even touch it i finf myself takeing 10 pills no affect...need help badly.also on gabapentin nothing has any affect its like taking advil,,,,now what..IM SCREWED

Well I seem to be pretty much immune to all pills. I have even tried the pills people abuse but I still dont feel a thing. I had a sleeping pill that worked for about a week and a half. only pill to ever effect me at all. then I got immune. Even though the doctor doubled the dosage up to a really large mg i still didnt feel it anymore. but it was good for a week so it might work longer for you. It can be expensive though. It was called seroquel.

I am in the same boat I have tried all the sleep medications, ambien, trazadone, Restoril, remeron, etc... Nothing works. I may sleep for 3 hours a night and am constantly tired.

I had a sleep study done and they found that when I do get those 3 hours of sleep I am not entering REM sleep, thus I am tired all the time. Does anyone know of anything else to try???

I am desperate to find something that works!!

I can totally relate to all of ya'll. I have had seroquel, trazadone, ambien, lunesta and countless over the counter sleep aids. The only way I seem to sleep is to mix the otc's with the ambien. Basically taking 9-10 pills!!! I know this cannot be safe but I don't know what else to do!! ANY suggestions????

Just read the 6 posts. Descibes me exactly, sleeping pills don't work unless I use at least 2.I'm scared. After reading all the other posts, there doesn't seem to be anything that helps. Has anyone found something that helps AND is safe?

I only get 3 hours of sleep a night for the last 3and 1/2 months. I tried every sleeping pill out there and i still can not sleep. I am so tired i feel like my legs are going to give out on me. Some days i am so tired i just want to stay in bed and i am unable to drive. I have no ideas.

I've had insomnia for the past 10 years and it has been getting progressively worse. I just can't go to sleep for more than 30 minutes without medication. I've been taking Lunesta for the past year and have raised my dosage to 3+ milligrams. Now it has quit working and I am contemplating upping my dosage a little.(Don't know how much is safe.)

I have sleep apnea and use a cpap machine, but it doesn't help if I can't go to sleep! Have tried acupuncture, hypnosis, sleep deprivation, etc. Ambien, melatonin, tryptophane don't work for me--in fact they make me sick. Advil PM only works for 2 or 3 nights.

Any ideas?

Problem with sleeping pills is you become tolerant and subsequently require more and more until they either barely resolve the problem or you become reliant on them. Insomnia is closely linked to how you feel about sleep psychologically - if you start to think that you will only sleep if you have a sleeping pill then effectively you are just enhancing the problem. I had suffered for 3 years and often went 4/5 nights with no sleep at all. The key for me was doing the natural things that allowed my brain to 'prepare' for sleep in the right way. Raise your core body temperature before bed, eat lots of trytophan/serotonin inducing rich foods, exercise, relax and most importantly - go to bed when you are tired, not necessarily just because you have been habitually taught that a certain time is 'bed-time'. It is a gradual process. Psychologically change pillows, bed, position, whatever. i personally would avoid pills altogether.

You poor girl. i am little better than you. sometimes, i can sleep well with Brainwave Tuner on my iphone. Hope you can have a try on it.

Sara wrote:

Hi,
I've pretty much had insomnia all my life, but it's been much worse in the last two weeks so I decided to try sleeping pills for the first time:
I got prescribed Imovane in it's highest dose and it made me sleep from 12am to 3am the first two nights, then it stopped working.
I went back and got a new prescription for Trazodone. I tried it yesterday: it made me feel a little weird, but did not put me to sleep.
I don't know what to do anymore. I only slept about 10 hours in the last 14 days!! I exercise, eat well, do everything right. What do you do when even medications won't work?
Thanks in advance.
Sara

I also have tried several sleeping medications and none work for longer than 2 days.... I've tried Lunesta, Seroquel, several forms of Ambien, and Klonopin. I have been a patient in several psychiatric wards... Not sleeping in these places can make you lose what little sanity u have left.... During my last stay I was so desperate for sleep that I would create a scene so they would have to give me the dread H-bomb shot in the ass... Just so I could sleep... And that worked for a few days... Then it just started making me extremely drowsy and caused me to drool instead of knocking me out... So I quit acting out and they let me out lol..... Anyway there seems to be no legal drug, prescription or OTC that will work for me for longer than a few days.... And I will not turn to illegal drugs if I can help it.... But my health is deteriorating rapidly... And my insurance just ran out.... My hair is falling out and turning grey... I am only 25... Many people have suggested smoking marijuana but that is illegal where I am at so I am wary of trying it.... :(

Keith, marijuana does work but it also causes other problems and eventually you end up being more of an insomniac than before... Well, this is my experience anyway. I take Quetiapine and I have been doing so for about 2 months but it is beginning to not have an effect any more and I'm not sure why...

Have any of you tried EFT - emotional freedom techniques? I suggest looking through the website
http://www.emofree.com/default.htm
where I believe many of you will find the help that you need. Do let me know what you think of it.

The only sleeping pill I have ever taken, other than OTC, is Restoril, 30 mg. What a blessing it was-- for maybe 5 months. Then, I had built up a tolerance to the point that it would relax me, but not induce sleep.
So, I started taking a different long-acting benzo called Klonopin twice a day. Once in the morning and one before dinner. Bingo! I have slept well for over a year.
According to Lehne's Pharmacology, there is tolerance to the sleep-inducing qualities of benzo's but NONE to their anxiolytic qual.

So basically, I got rid of the insomnia by getting rid of the anxiety and stress in my life. The sleep came secondarily. :-)