![]() But i figured it was just normal since I built up a tolerance to it in a short time. This freaked me out, as it was probably the first nite of my life that i didn’t get a wink of sleep. The first nite I didn’t take it, i couldn’t fall asleep. 5mg per night for a little over a week, so i thought it was safe to just stop taking it. ← this was the biggest mistake i could have made. Sure enough it did: i quit the PPI pills and I was just fine - this was incredible! I could just stop taking the xanax and manage the stress on my own from here on out. I decided to test this out by taking a small dose of the xanax for a week and see if the pain clears up. A gastro doc told me that it could be stress manifesting itself in different ways. After months of recording data, and seeing all kinds of doctors without answers, I happened to take xanax one night and noticed my chest didn’t hurt for the first time when i woke up. I kept a spreadsheet of my nasal (breathing issues) and acid reflux symptoms on an hourly basis to try and find patterns from something I might have been doing, or eating that was causing it. At the same time i had been TTC, so I really didn’t want to be on medication, and felt alot of pressure to get off the meds. After reading tons about it, i started getting all the symptoms, and got put on medication. It all started in 2019 when one day out of the blue I couldn’t breathe and my chest hurt, and so I started exploring reasons - I started reading about acid reflux, and though i didn’t have all the symptoms of it, i felt like it was possible. After a couple weeks, I went to a mental ward after I completely broke down. My stomach was so torn up from stress I would vomit or dry heave. When this first started to happen to me, I was so bad I couldn’t even close my eyes - my body would sense me relaxing and cause a panic attack. Sleep anxiety is a vicious loop of fear that keeps a person from needed rest - in my case - to the point of insanity. One year ago I could never have imagined that something I considered a detail in life would turn into a monster and nearly swallow me whole. One year ago, my life changed in a way I never thought possible. I did want to shout out to user/sleepanxiety for giving me a reading list that helped me get started on the path of healing - read his posts as well. Not sure how common this type of insomnia is, but i couldn’t find much when it first started happening to me. I just want to share my story here incase it can help anyone.
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