Do you have difficulty sleeping? Are you one of those people that have trouble falling asleep and go to bed every night wondering how long you’ll toss and turn without sleeping? Are you one of those people that find falling asleep at night is a chore, a time that you dread? Are you one of those people who are looking for a cure for insomnia?

Throughout most of my life I could fall asleep quickly and easily. After I’d fall asleep I’d usually stay asleep throughout the night. That was until a few years ago when I had the call. The call was from the hospital telling me that both of my parents were very sick. That’s when I really started to have difficulty sleeping.

The voice on the other end of the phone informed me that my parents were both in the hospital. Both my parents had come down with the flu. As a result, my father was dying from pneumonia. My mother would recover but since she had dementia she would need me to make some decisions about where she would stay.

I spent the following week with my father as he lay dying and worked frantically to find somewhere my mother would find comfortable as she recovered from her illness. My plan was then to move her to San Diego to a assisted care facility so she would me near me and my children. Finally my father passed away and I found a place that seemed to be nice enough to care for my mother. Unfortunately she contracted another disease while in the facility and passed on a couple of months later.

All this stress took a toll on me. During that time and for many months afterwards I had real trouble falling asleep. When I did fall asleep it would only be for a little while then I would find myself up tossing and turning. I had a real sleeping disorder.

Soon the effects of insomnia began to affect me negatively. My sleeping disorder was making me groggy and grumpy. I was unable to concentrate and it was difficult for me to make decisions or do my regular daily tasks. I would walk around in a daze all day but even though I was exhausted at night I still couldn’t get to sleep.

Maybe you’ve experienced the effects of insomnia also. Maybe you’ve gone through something similar to what I went through, or events even more traumatic, and your sleeping disorder is affecting you too.

I soon began to think that it was normal to have difficulty sleeping with so much stress. After a while I really didn’t think anything of it at all. What surprised me was that even after my mom passed on and the stress of taking care of her went away… I still had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. I had turned into an insomniac.

At the very least it would take me a minimum of an hour to fall asleep. Even if I went to sleep at 2:30 in the morning I would wake up at the crack of dawn. As soon as the first rays of sunshine hit my eyes I was wide awake. My sleeping disorder was growing into a real problem. Nothing I did would let me fall back asleep.

I tried everything I could think of to get a good night’s sleep. I tried taking over the counter sleep or cold medicine, but they didn’t help. I then went to see my doctor and he prescribed me some pharmaceuticals.

For a couple of days the pills worked and for a while I felt like I was in heaven. My difficulty sleeping had gone away. I was able to fall asleep within minutes of taking the pills and I slept well throughout the entire night. Almost exactly 8 hours after taking the pills, I would wake up and, for a few days, I felt great.

The problem was that a week later, I started waking up in the morning not feeling so great. Even though the pills seemed to handle my sleeping disorder they also made me feel drowsy all the time. I started sleep walking at night and there were times during the day I would fall asleep without any warning. As a result I was constantly either trying to wake myself up and if I didn’t take the pills, I couldn’t sleep at all.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I went to a friend’s house one day and I had no recollection of having driven there. I was scared of what these pills were doing to me and I immediately flushed them all down the toilet.

I had enough of modern cures, I wanted a cure for insomnia that was safe and wouldn’t harm my body. I spent months researching to find out how to overcome the effects of insomnia and figured out what worked for me. Through this process I was able to overcome my insomnia.

Over the next few weeks I’m going to let you in on how I ended my difficulty sleeping. If you can’t sleep and wished more than anything in the world to shut your eyes and fall into a deep, deep sleep, this information might help you too. Hopefully this can help you overcome insomnia too.