Trauma Healing

Yes, another night struggling with insomnia. I’ve been awake more than I’ve been sleeping and it’s just plain getting frustrating.

My therapist told me that if I can’t fall back to sleep I’m supposed to get out of bed and do something else. But what can I do in the middle of the night that’s not going to wake up the whole house? So, I sit in my room. Sometimes I try to find something to do for a short while; read my Bible, blog, burn some incense and a candle. That doesn’t help me fall back to sleep, but at least I try something.

I need to go back to the neurologist and figure out why I’m not sleeping. I’ve already had some testing done. The first test said I was having seizure activity in the middle of the night and that’s what’s waking me up. So they had me see a neurologist and he did an MRI, which came back normal. We then did an ambulatory EEG (?). That didn’t show anything either. And I haven’t been back since for more tests. Why? The usual. I thought the problem had gone away. For a while I was only waking up three (3) times a night, compared to seven (7). But now the three (3) times I’m awake it’s impossible to fall back to sleep.

I did notice one problem. I wake up with restless arm syndrome. Normally they call it restless leg syndrome, but it’s in my arms. Sometimes I wake up with that and can’t fall back to sleep. It exasperating anyway. I think it’s related to one of the medications I take. And it doesn’t happen all the time.