grubby

Look on the bright side, at least you can GET to sleep

Took me "forever" to get back to some semblance of regular sleep, first two weeks I barely slept at all, maybe 7 hours total for both weeks. A BRUTAL and un-pleasant experience, to say the least Alcohol messes up your brain chemistry a lot, as I experienced first-hand with that awful insomnia.

MeMeMe7711

Ya I have the opposite problem. I can't fall asleep and just lay there for hours. Once I do finally sleep it's only about an hour before I have to get up. Here's to hoping this gets better soon...

JeffreyAK

I had trouble early on getting to sleep, and took trazodone for the first month or so. After that, once I got used to sleeping without drugs (pretty quick), I did find that I often woke up in the middle of the night, but could get back to sleep again. It faded within the first couple months, as I recall.

One tip I got in treatment was, don't eat high-protein dinners, eat early and make it heavier on carbs. Carbs give you energy that is quick but fades soon, while proteins are slow-burn and give you energy for many hours. The worst thing you can do is eat a big, late steak dinner.

stargazer016

For my first six weeks of sobriety, I could fall asleep easily enough but wake up around four hours later with my brain racing, not allowing me to get back to sleep.

I guess since I drank myself to sleep for many years, my brain overcompensated for the alcohol by prematurely revving itself up each morning.

It did sort itself out shortly thereafter.