Sudden awful insomnia

[Stygimoloch]

I’ve got myself into a dreadful cycle of waking in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. I’ve waking at 2am after going to sleep at 10pm so averaging about 4 hours.

Last night I woke at 11.30pm and I’ve been awake ever since. This has been going on for around 2 weeks. It came on suddenly and now it’s every single night. I’m exhausted and tearful and am struggling to cope.

Has anyone has anything similar? I suffered some insomnia last year and the doctor gave me some sleeping tablets (beginning with Z I think). They made me sleep but I hated how they made me feel. I’ve got a telephone doctor’s appointment tonight because I can’t go on like this. Are they likely to offer me anything else to help? I don’t know where to turn. Within two weeks I’ve turned into a shell of a person. I’m so miserable and frustrated and quite frankly horrified at the lack of sleep.

Please help!

The headspace app has a special section on sleeping I think it's called nighttime SOS. It's brilliant.
Try not to stress - it's amazing how we can function in such little sleep! But it will pass I'm sure (I get insomnia sporadically when I'm stressed about work. It sucks, but it does pass)

Are you on any other medication? I have just discovered that my insomnia, night sweats, hair loss and a raft of other unpleasant side effects are most likely being caused by my levythyroxine medication to treat an under-active thyroid. I have learnt the hard way to always read the boring small print blurb in medication boxes.