Trouble sleeping

I have such a difficult time of sleeping. I'm autistic and I suffer with anxiety as well, also grief after losing my sister in 2015. At some point over time I began having difficulty with sleeping. It might have been before 2015 but I noticed it most after Alice died, and since then my stresses have gotten worse what with every day life stuff going on. My stress has been a lot worse again of late, I tried working again, it didn't go well and I feel like that's set me back some what.

I've always had issues with sleeping, as a child I was infuriating my mum said because I wouldn't go to bed because I was never tired and then I woke several times every night. This continued well in to late childhood and even in to my teens. I sleep, then wake, and then sleep again, and then wake up. That has been my night routine for years. On the surface it doesn't sound much of a problem but overall it's affecting me badly - my immune system is bad now, I'm always tired, body aches and I get so much anxiety it's hard to get through the day with it.

I don't know what I'm hoping for writing this. Maybe just to know it isn't only me like this? Or some help? I don't know. Sorry, this isn't a good first post.

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  • Trazodone - 50mg taken at night.

    I have spent my life unable to sleep. I just could not sleep. My GP gave me this and it finally fixed it. I take it and 30mins later I am asleep guaranteed.

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  • You mods realise the medical community is completely out of touch with the all the medical research on this right?? Sure, we can't give advice, but at some point we need to start arming this community with the growing body of research so we can all get the help we need. This is the only way to make change. 

  • The post I've just spent half hour on disappeared. No medical advice

    Without prejudice.  Seems this post has already attracted attention when it was first published and therefore is likely flagged for extra vigilance. 

    Personally, I generally only comment on new posts, identified from the home page.  It is now risky to regenerate posts from the 'Related' column as they are seemingly more prone to problems. 

  • You are absolutely not alone in that experience at the moment - there are ongoing tech team conundrums under active investigation behind the scenes. 

    What I have found, if something is important, I draft the text etc. as a draft email first.  Then if a reply post goes bang and you slide into the unintended everything moderated queue - you can retrieve the text from your email and still make an original post with it - even while stuck on the naughty step for any reply activity while awaiting moderation resolution (helpful over the weekend).

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  • You are absolutely not alone in that experience at the moment - there are ongoing tech team conundrums under active investigation behind the scenes. 

    What I have found, if something is important, I draft the text etc. as a draft email first.  Then if a reply post goes bang and you slide into the unintended everything moderated queue - you can retrieve the text from your email and still make an original post with it - even while stuck on the naughty step for any reply activity while awaiting moderation resolution (helpful over the weekend).

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