I have suffered with insomnia all my life and though I have tried several various remedies none of them have worked. I have even tried smoking cannabis but to no avail. Insomnia, or sleep apnea, can be extremely irritating especially when you are unemployed, as I am. I may have a job interview the next morning and will not be able to get to sleep the night before. Maybe an hour or two before I need to wake up I might actually get round to dropping off. This causes problems in the morning because I have become so tired from the consistent nights of sleeplessness that I just can't bring myself to open my eyes. Sometime I awaken and am alert and conscious, ...  Read the complete review

I have had a read through the other reviews on this topic, all of which give very sound advice with how to try to deal with this debilitating health issue, so I won't repeat that advice here but just wanted to share my experience as it comes with an array of other issues that might be relevant to another sufferer. If you have read my piece on depression, you will know I have suffered with severe depression for the past six years and as you may know, one of the many varied side effects of this (also debilitating) illness, is insomnia although I have always had difficulty getting off to sleep in the first place for as long as I can remember. In recent months ...  Read the complete review

I don't really know if I have insomnia as such, but I have terrible difficulty sleeping. With me it is getting to sleep. I sleep like a baby and extremely deeply once I get off, but I just cant fall asleep I might lie awake for hours - until 4 / 5am and then sleep until 8am and wake like I've had a full nights sleep. I think about everything and anything - including money worries, my weight, relationships with people, partners, family, friends. I think about how to make a million pounds, I think about the course I am studying. It gets to the point where I want to scream at myself! Its been happening to me for about the last 8 or 9 years. I hope that my research on the ...  Read the complete review

I have been thinking about doing this review for a few months now, but have felt a bit uneasy about it. I mean after all it is only a sleep disorder. I'm not in pain. I'm not ill or having to deal with a 'real illness'. There are others who are far worse off than me. However it is a disorder and one that can ruin your life. I'm going to try and tell you a bit about what I experience. It really goes back to when I was about 9 years of age. I would always have some very 'black' dreams. It would often involve the death of my family and I'd often wake up and go in and check my parents were still alive. Pretty strange you may think, and I'd tend to agree with you. ...  Read the complete review

I had always thought of insomnia as actually not sleeping at all. I was actually very surprised to discover that my waking four or five times a night to peer hazily at the alarm clock before going back to sleep also "counted" and was in fact why I was so knackered lately. Insomnia generally sucks. It can result in "excessive daytime sleepiness" (starting to nod off during the day) and can even be dangerous if you're exhausted while driving or operating heavy equipment. A lot of the time it's caused by anxiety - if you're anxious about something, working it out might get you back to sleeping properly. Otherwise however, it may ...  Read the complete review