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First of all, thank you.
It's a little disheartening to know that it's something that I'll have to adapt to, rather than successfully rid myself of. It really is a lonely thing. On the other hand, it's lovely and inspiring to see that you've been successful at adapting to your own insomnia, and you seem to have a pretty fulfilling life.

Unfortunately, I live in a dorm room, so baths, music, bedtimes are all things I cannot have. My dorm is also where I study and entertain friends, so it's really serving as a very, very small home.

I don't know what my diagnosis was. I'm not sure my mother would remember it either. I was pretty sick as a kid, so I saw the doctor a lot. I was almost always on an antibiotic for either bronchitis or inner ear infections, and they were so revolting that I can still remember how they taste. Contrasted with these, I have not the slightest clue what I was given for the insomnia, only that for a brief period of time, I was being treated for it.

July and August are the worst time for sleep, while January and February are the best. All of the other months are unpredictable.

I'll really have to try some of those suggestions. Its just started dawning on me that what I'm experiencing is not normal. I guess I just assumed that everyone went through this, and it would go away with time, so I never really bothered looking into real ways to help myself through it.

I don't know what the issue is with my doctor. She's a new doctor, not the one I had grown to trust. When I said that I was having trouble sleeping, she offered me anti-depressants, which I refused because I didn't feel comfortable with the idea that she would (or even could) prescribe me a pretty serious medication based upon literally one sentence that I had spoken to her. She never asked me to elaborate. She did check me for hyperthyroidism, but when that came back negative she told me that it was normal for a girl my age to have trouble sleeping.
She said almost the exact same thing when I told her about the fainting.
I don't think it has to do with any medication. I'm on an oral contraceptive and for a little while I was taking Singulair to control my allergies, but it was giving me upper respiratory infections so I stopped.

February 1, 2009 - 1:08am

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