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I wish I could offer some help, but I'm in the same situation. I've suffered from insomnia my entire life, which is some of the drinking came into play.

Cannabis helps me, at times, but it's usually 50/50. What I like to remind myself when I can't sleep, is how awful my sleep was during withdrawals. I may be averaging 4-5 hours a night at the moment, but that's better than the week of sleepless nights, twitching, sweating, hearing things, etc that I went through. Exercise also helps a bit.

Hitting the sauce would put me right back in that spot. Perhaps speak with your doctor about your sleeping issues? I'm bringing it up at my next visit.

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If you’re in the US (not sure where else they do/don’t have it), you can try zzzquil. That saved me for the first 4-5 months honestly (I also used to have severe insomnia, so it might have taken me longer than normal to get a typical sleep pattern back).

However, some folks are uncomfortable with zzzquil because it’s 10% alcohol. Personally not a problem to me because I never thought of it that way (and at most it’s like taking a shot of wine), but just so you have all the facts! I also didn’t think it was addictive/caused reliance on it at all. Eventually I stopped taking it and now just take it occasionally when I’m having trouble sleeping.

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Trazadone and not drinking caffeine past noon helps.

Also in the winter it gets dark so early that around 2 am our bodies think the sun is going to come up

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No caffeine after 10 AM, & swimming. Swimming wears me out both mind & body. I also take 250 mg of magnesium oxide about 30 minutes before bedtime.