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I think I slept 2 hours last night!

suzzeeb

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So I have been posting about how bad my anxiety has been, which I think started off and on after a catheter ablation for PVCs in July. I just started feeling worse randomly after that procedure. A few weeks ago my anxiety seemed ok and then out of the blue started getting muscle twitching and feeling nervous. I freaked out thinking it was because I hadn't taken my Klonopin for several days. My doctor said it wasn't from that and that it was just benign muscle twitching probably from lack of sleep. So Friday I had 2 wisdom teeth removed. It went well. Very little pain really, nothing traumatic, but now I'm having muscle twitching again and when I am about to fall asleep I keep jerking myself awake and then freak out even more. So last night I went to bed at 9 and was still awake by 1:30. I finally took Klonopin to relax and even that didn't help. I woke up after a couple hours feeling nervous and terrible. I wonder if it is these procedures that keep making my anxiety worse? Or maybe I'm just having an episode I can't get over.

Sleep is the only thing that makes my anxiety somewhat better and I can't even do that now. When my anxiety is bad nothing helps me sleep either.
 

Joshua1

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Sleep is the only thing that makes my anxiety somewhat better and I can't even do that now. When my anxiety is bad nothing helps me sleep either.
Naturally it is true, sleeping can make anxiety better. I suppose you may have to work on breathing exercises and relaxation methods before bed time. This is what i do when i do not get to sleep fast. I do not sleep fast enough sometimes when i am super stressed.
 

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At night I always have a radio on. Helps me to drift off. I always tell people to never force sleep. Do that and you will be even more awake and frustrated. If you can't sleep at least try and relax the body and mind. I do get those night when I might wake about an hour after fallen asleep. I do be wide awake. But I never leave my bed. I always stay there. A lot of the time by not even trying, I drift off back to sleep again. More like letting sleep find you. Not you finding sleep.
 
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