Fun fact; insomnia can be genetic
Heey,
As I’ve said in my becoming of a grinch post, I had a family supper for Christmas not too long ago- and I found out apparently Insomnia runs in the family 🙈
While it was two of my uncle’s wife, so did my cousin.. on the opposite, my dad’s older sister can go to bed and sleep right through until 8am the next morning! Wouldn’t that be nice..
While i’m more of a night owl and always kinda struggled with my insomnia since forever (never was much of a sleeper), I finally got sleep medication last year in a way to fight my trichotillomania.. as it would mostly happen trying to fall asleep and being unable to.
My doctor discovered my body can quite take it 😂 he prescribed me the same thing I used to take years ago that was leaving me too tired the next morning to no avail.. I needed something stronger. I’m currently taking 2 pills every night to help me sleep.
Side notes;
– I go to bed everyday at 11/11:30pm, right after I gave majora his dry food. I’ll play videogames or read for an hour or two and usually clocks out around midnight/1am tops.
– On top of working standing/running/lifting every day, I do 20mins of dancing 4-5x a week.
– Even with all that, I can stay laying in bed eyes closed until 6am doing the rotisserie chicken unable to sleep seeing every hour of the night.
The medications works wonderfully! While not always feeling physically tired, after closing my book and turning around I’m knocked out almost instantly. And boy do I sleep hard.. sometimes I sleep through the home phone rigning 😅
My body also struggle to stay asleep.. versus without the medications, even if I get up multiple times through the night (because of dogs wanting to go out or randomly), I wake up still feeling rested and not like I spent the night on the clothesline.
Con is I absolutely cannot sleep without the meds.. but i’d argue that even before I couldn’t sleep PERIODT. So yknow, atleast now I get decent sleep!
I can also tell when I forget to take them as my body feel too “awake” 😅 it goes back to taking me ages and we’re having a problem. Though at times it does happen that something, maybe the moon interfere and I still just can’t get to fall asleep 🤦🏽♀️ cue me rambling this post right now
Do you suffer of insomnia?
What tricks do you use to help you fall asleep?