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Can't sleep...Want to sleep... Need to sleep... Must sleep!

Insomnia , oh the torture! For the past few weeks , i have been having sleeping problems. I either fall asleep at a decent hour and wake up at 3am or lay restless until 3am or (the worst combination) lay restless until 2am , sleep for 3 hours and wake up at 5:30am, can't fall back asleep until 6:30am and then drag myself out of bed to get up for work at 7:30am.

I couldn't take it anymore, I was begining to be late for work and other commitments due to the of a lack of sleep. So I began to research over the counter sleeping pills. Read about a couple and made a trip to Walgreen's. I was trying to figure out what brand of pills to buy when I saw this brand called Sominex. On the box it says" Wake up refreshed from a restful sleep" Perfect I thought, I will get a good night sleep , wake up on time and be ready to go.

That night I was excited , ready to get some sleep . Took one 25 mg pill and was knock out. That morning I woke up and felt a little tired but at least I slept the whole night. An hour later I was still feeling tired so took a shot of some caffeine. 3 hours later I was in some type of drunken stupor of grogginess. I just couldn't wake up all the way , my vision was slightly burry. I began to worry and started to research the side affects and personal experiences of this medication. When I read " Next day drowsiness , blurred vision , etc" I started to panic. So that night I finally woke up from my drowsiness but it was 11:30pm. Time to go to bed. I was afraid to take the pill but I desperately wanted to go to sleep , so I took half a pill and hoped for the best. It took much longer to fall asleep that night but I woke up the next morning without a drowsy hangover. It has been fine ever since. I want to be able to sleep without pills though.
So I'm asking my readers , what do you do when you can't sleep?