Hi Wish! I'm sorry that you're having such a rough time with your sleep. Unfortunately, that is a problem that I'm very familiar with. It seems to happen to me in regular patterns, and there are few things worse than lying there in bed at night for hour after hour and not being able to get the sleep you crave.

I agree with Chemar that if they work, herbal remedies are always the best and safest. There is one kind of tea called Sleepy Time that often seems to help me when the problem is less severe. But when it gets bad, the only thing I've found that seems to be totally reliable is a prescription sedative called klonopin. That always gets me to sleep, and I sleep uninterrupted for up to eight hours. I personally dislike taking prescription meds, so I try to only use this when I really have to, and never for more than a few nights at a time. But it does work, and any side-effects it has are much less debilitating than the awful exhaustion that comes from accumulated loss of sleep.

Hope you feel better soon...
Idealist