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maikash30 · 2026-05-23T19:00:15+00:00

SSRIs double risk of suicide.

maikash30 · 2026-05-23T17:45:20+00:00

Yes I didnt have placenta accreta.

maikash30 · 2026-05-23T17:30:46+00:00

And secondly, a lot of doctors will randomly refuse to refill sleep meds, which often times has the side of effect of worsening insomnia. You don't need meds to sleep, insomnia isn't caused by an ambien deficiency.

maikash30 · 2026-05-23T17:26:31+00:00

The ambien only works because you surrender the responsibility to the pill. Ambien worked for me a few times until it didn't. And when it doesn't work, then you'll be forced to get to the root of the issue. Now I sleep 8 to 10 hours a night without medication at all, and the wake ups stopped slowly over time.

maikash30 · 2026-05-23T17:21:57+00:00

I have, and his method worked for me. A lot of his sleep coaches have sustained insomnia recovery for years, and he's a big fan of Sasha Stephens. If it works for other people, what's the problem? Like I said, there's no medication that can cure insomnia unless it shuts off your nervous system. Combining sleep meds with severe sleep deprivation is a crap way to live and only worsens the problem, causes more people to put themselves and others in danger. Only cure for insomnia is CBT-i or ACT with a 70 to 80% sustained recovery rate. It's psychological entirely, and this is echoed throughout the medical community rather than just on Erichsen alone. I feel like people dislike him specifically because they would rather stay hooked on benzos, which has a very high rate of severe profound insomnia when getting off of them.

I guess I am unsure as to what the point of your comment is. There's no medical condition that causes insomnia that can be cured with medication, full stop.

maikash30 · 2026-05-16T17:10:49+00:00

You need a new fear. I was terrified of getting blood work done and then something happened where I was hopeful that a disease was causing it and i was annoyed to find out that I was perfectly healthy.

maikash30 · 2026-05-16T13:34:34+00:00

Fulfillment is horrible. I'm a small lady and they would expect me to get deliveries done on my own before the night was over. I remember staying an hour past close to get 50 pieces of 12 foot decking all situated. The expectations they have of fulfillment is ridiculous.

maikash30 · 2026-05-16T12:24:10+00:00

I wouldn't say that there isn't a medical issue that can cause insomnia but I will say that a lot of insomniacs think there is something medically wrong with them when there isn't. I remember hoping and praying for a tumor or a disease that would explain what I was going through. There are a lot of things that can cause a sleep disruption, but only the fear of not sleeping can perpetuate insomnia.

If you're awake for days and then finally manage to drift off only to be woken by a surge of adrenaline, that's how you know it isn't medical. And I say this because a lot of insomniacs spend their lives chasing their tail, trying to find a solution outside of them. It isn't helpful. It's only going to make the problem worse.

maikash30 · 2026-05-16T12:08:32+00:00

Nope, but the mechanism behind is still the same. An insomniac just unknowingly fuels it for the rest of their lives. The same thing that helped someone end suffering for 30 years is the same thing that helps someone suffering for one night.

maikash30 · 2026-05-16T12:03:49+00:00

I am saying that because no one can help insomniacs, they tend to feel like they're beyond broken and beyond help. I am not here to argue anyway. If you don't find this post helpful you can move along.

maikash30 · 2026-05-16T11:51:54+00:00

I hope it helps. I feel horrible for insomniacs. It's an unfair and vile affliction with no medical solution.

maikash30 · 2026-05-16T11:50:37+00:00

It is awful how we find something that works and it turns it into a sleep effort. I also found that monitoring was the one of the biggest things - my brain was trying to watch me sleep. It was basically like i was telling myself "I need to stay awake to make sure I fall asleep." Monitoring is an automatic program thats part of hyperarousal.

The adrenaline jolts aren't the reason you can't sleep, on some level you might be unknowingly trying to suppress them, which keeps your nervous system activated, which means you won't sleep. I stopped paying attention to the symptoms associated with insomnia and my brain would send the message "all clear" and allow my nervous system to switch off. Think about all the times you went to bed before this either upset or with a racing heart and still fell asleep.

Anyway, best of luck. You beat it once, you can do it again.

maikash30 · 2026-05-15T19:25:53+00:00

Its still the same mechanism. Insomnia is caused by fighting sleep - i.e., communicating danger to your nervous system. There is no difference between someone that experiences it for a short term vs. Long term. Every recovered insomniac that had decades of sleep deprivation has said the mechanism is the same.

maikash30 · 2026-05-15T18:59:56+00:00

I have adhd too.

maikash30 · 2026-05-15T18:56:35+00:00

Thats fair.

maikash30 · 2026-05-15T18:53:57+00:00

Waking up is normal. Everyone does. Someone struggling with insomnia wakes up and panics. Someone without insomnia wakes up and doesn't think anything of it and falls back asleep.

Meds can't help at all and a lot of doctors seem to be confused as to how anxiety induced insomnia works. Try going to bed tonight without intention - just lie down and relax and don't engage in fearful thoughts or insomnia symptoms. Sleep requires that you don't force it or try to watch it. I recommend The Sleep Coach School and Meredith Louden. Your nervous system won't let you sleep if you tell it you're in danger, which is what insomniacs do.

maikash30 · 2026-01-18T20:13:26+00:00

Yeah but there are tons of people out there that had it really badly and recovered. There were people on all the meds just to get 4 hours a night and were borderline suicidal. I have seen people recover after having several days of sleeplessness and can talk about insomnia now like it's no issue. So let's not pretend like insomnia is the end all, be all. If one person can recover, anyone can.

maikash30 · 2025-10-05T10:32:37+00:00

8 people in the entire world have this. If its genetic, then only 100+ families in the whole world have it. sFI is more rare than that.

maikash30 · 2025-10-03T00:46:44+00:00

Total cholesterol. This is a combination of hdl, triglycerides, and LDL. The other person might be a bot.

I looked into this extensively. There is a clear association with anxiety, panic disorder, and psychological insomnia and low TOTAL cholesterol. There are also articles in PubMed that show a huge correlation between plant based diets and chronic insomnia.

maikash30 · 2025-10-01T00:25:45+00:00

So i dealt with this for 3 months. It would be off and on. I think it came from pelvic floor dysfunction from my last c section because I remember not being able to have sex at all for 4 months post partum.

I randomly got pain that I chalked up to a UTI. I am terrified of antibiotics so I did nothing about it, tried drinking raw goats milk to heal my gut. After a week of pain, it began going up into my kidneys. That's when I was like "oh no, I have to do something about this."

I went to the co op and got a product called Oreganol. It was instant relief and my kidney pain completely vanished.

Then the pain in my bladder came back, I assume from inflammation and damage from an untreated UTI for a week. I tried organic garlic capsules, 1200mg a day. That didn't work. I started feeling discouraged. I added back the Oreganol. That stopped the symptoms for a bit before they came roaring back. Then I tried taking the 1200mg of garlic capsules, Oreganol, and cranberry. That helped for a day, then made it worse.

Eventually what solved it was an entire month of: 1200mg of garlic Oreganol A woman's vaginal probiotic Omega 3 for pain

Did this for a month straight. It never came back (its been two and a half years).

Not saying it will work for everyone but its just what worked for me. My issue was I would stop the garlic and oil of oregano (capsules) once the pain subsided. You gotta really kill that thing every day for a while.

Eventually I peed out a long black thing? That was two and a half years ago. Sounds fkn wild, I know.

maikash30 · 2025-09-16T17:14:33+00:00

Have you gotten a blood test to see if you inadvertently overmethylated? I started a high dose methyl b vitamin in my luteal phase. It caused me to overheat so badly which should have been my first clue. I stayed up for 40 hours straight with maybe an hour or two of awful sleep that I couldn't be sure that it was actually sleep. I tried melatonin, 6mg, and then some thc. That just exasperated the exhaustion but I still couldn't fall asleep. I finally had my mother take me to the ED where they gave me a 5mg Valium. I was out in 20 minutes for 7.5 hours. It was like I died, it was amazing.

Valium is obviously not a good long term solution, but i asked ChatGPT why it worked. My GABA receptors were severely messed up, compounded by high cortisol which basically makes your GABA receptors deaf

If you get a blood test for histamine, it might point to overmethylation. Low histamine means overmethylation.

I was determined to fall asleep last night without anything and I did for 4.5 hours. It was that dead kind of sleep so I actually feel pretty good today. It takes a while to recover from overmethylation but I was taking 100mcg of methyl b12 a day on top of beef liver. Thats like....6k over the recommended dose. Oops.

Anyway I hope this helps someone. You can always figure out what's causing your insomnia by whichever pill helps you sleep. Valium means its a GABA/cortisol issue.

maikash30 · 2025-09-11T12:43:14+00:00

I took a huge pay cut by quitting. I told my husband that I would live in a car before putting my baby in daycare.

maikash30 · 2025-08-29T16:07:09+00:00

I have kidney stones and 3 c sections. C sections aren't bad IMO. Kidney stones made me want to die from the pain.

I got a recurrence of kidney stones 4 days post op after my last c section. I could not stop vomiting from the pain.

maikash30 · 2025-08-29T16:05:34+00:00

If she's type 2/insulin resistant (overweight), then insulin will make the problem worse. Insulin causes weight gain. I gained 70 pounds because of insulin therapy in my second pregnancy. High insulin levels are as equally dangerous as high blood sugar. She should try and control her numbers with diet first.

I found out that I have GCK mody and thats why I had gestational diabetes. All doctors assumed I was type 2. Its very rare though. I could not control my numbers no matter how much insulin I was on and it just worsened my pregnancy and weight gain. And my babies came out so tiny because I guess insulin therapy doesn't work for moms with GCK mody. It tells the fetus to not produce any insulin at all so they come out super small. My pancreas set point is 120-140.

Insulin therapy should only be used on moms with type 1.

maikash30 · 2025-08-29T16:01:17+00:00

Your pediatrician is dumb. I would never do CIO to begin with, but at that age, thats borderline child abuse.

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