What do you do when you have insomnia and can’t sleep all damn night

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I’m 18w and I just hit the insomnia nights, I was awake for more than 7 hours last night, I was getting so frustrated that I couldn’t sleep tht it was helping to keep me awake, also having to get up to pee 6 times didn’t help. What do you guys do when you can’t sleep? Or when you know you are not going to fall asleep? Do you get up and do something else?

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My doctor told me benadryl was safe to take for allergies and when I'm unable to sleep.

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I take a bath when I cant sleep. Epsom salts with lavender do the trick quite nicely

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I would eat😂 then usually pee and just keep redoing my night routine until I'm tired enough to sleep. Having a movie playing also helps

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I play Yahtzee on my phone or binge on Netflix

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I have chronic insomnia for years now but this pregnancy it became insane. I’m always awake at 2AM and sometimes can’t go back to sleep until my son is at daycare, around 8AM.
Taking melatonin usually helps.
I don’t do any screen time when up at night because I know it will screw the little melatonin I produce naturally. I avoid reading because it keeps me awake (whereas it helps me fall asleep in the evening, go figure).
I was recently told to try doing mandala and I think it helped me when I did it.
If it’s early in the night, I take Benadryl (for allergies that I don’t have). It was a tip from my Ob-Gyn and I felt it helped also!
But nothing can seem to prevent the fact that I WILL wake up around 2 and have to try those things at least for 1h before falling asleep again...

What do you do when you have insomnia and can’t sleep all damn night

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