# Insomnia Is Killing Me

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-is-killing-me/945720>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-is-killing-me/945720 "2021-07-05T08:47:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-is-killing-me/945720/1 "2021-07-05T08:47:21Z")

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It’s been with me ever since I could remember, but instead of getting used to it, it just kills me more and more with each passing day.

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**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-is-killing-me/945720/2 "2021-07-05T10:10:41Z")

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Yeah, it sure sucks the big one. I’m sure you’ve went to doctors and done the old wives things to try to help. I feel for you.

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**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-is-killing-me/945720/3 "2021-07-05T12:56:39Z")

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You have my sympathies. I’ve had bouts of insomnia for many years. It’ll happen for a while, ease off for no apparent reason, then come back. The “old wives” remedies don’t work. I envy people who can sleep uninterrupted for 8 hours. I’m up 3 or 4 times a night. In the early months of the pandemic, I couldn’t sleep more than 3 hours at a time. I’d awaken, wide awake, staring into the blackness of the night at 2am. Inevitably, mild panic would set in, which only made it worse. I tried to calm down by focusing on doing something productive, which you might think would be a brain stimulant, but which often eased my mind enough that I would feel drowsy again after a couple of hours.