I have been diagnosed with sleep disorder since I was a child. I am 33 now and haven’t been able to sleep without medication most of my life.
I had been on seroquel since 2023 and it was the only med that successfully put me to sleep every night. I considered it a miracle drug.
About three months ago I started waking up in the middle of the night covered in sweat. It was annoying, but I dealt with it.
By March it was so bad I hadn’t slept more than an hour or two a night for weeks. I would wake up totally soaked, sweat pooled on my chest, hair drenched, shivering cold, three to four times a night. I was delirious and paranoid, terrified to go to bed.
My doctor took me off seroquel and put me on trazadone. Did not help, just took me several hours to fall asleep and end up in the same situation.
I couldn’t get another doctors appointment for a week and I was desperate so my friend suggested I try proanolol. Supposedly it helped her with night sweats with her hyperthyroidism.
I took a 20mg pill before bed and I woke up the next day dry for the first time in over a month. I basically had a melt down from relief.
I have not had night sweats since. I do not understand, my doctors don’t understand, but it worked. (They did tons of blood work when it started, I do not have any thyroid issues)
About three weeks ago I fell asleep on the couch without having taken my meds. That hadn’t happened since June of 2025. I woke up a little sweaty a few hours later, took my pill, went to bed, fell straight back to sleep.
I thought it was a fluke, but it keeps happening. I stopped taking my trazadone and only the propanolol since early last week and I have fallen asleep without much struggle every night.
I haven’t experienced this in years. Sometimes will happen randomly for a month or so then return, but something feels different about this. The night sweats are still a thing, but I can sleep?
I’m also drooling a ton.
What’s strange to me is that my insomnia has been life long. My doctors picked up on it when I was 7 and I became officially diagnosed when I was 12 or 13. My mom said I barely slept as a baby as well. Unless I had trauma in the womb, or as a very small baby, my sleep disorder is genetic/medical. My dad is an insomniac as well. My brothers too. Not as bad as me, but they deal with disordered sleep.
AND
I had one of my best friends die 10 days ago, so I have been an emotional wreck, horribly stressed, working overtime, eating poorly, etc.
Still I am falling asleep every night. Even dreaming.
I don’t understand it. I’m also terrified it won’t last. It feels so amazing to finally be tired. To be heavy with the weight of the day and be too exhausted to keep your eyes open? I hadn’t experienced that more than one time a year for as long as I can remember. My doctors have no idea what’s happening lol.
Anyway. What the fuck?
TLDR: My life-long insomnia abruptly stopped, but I’m sweating through my clothes without taking meds for a disorder I don’t have??