u/AssociateDangerous13

Hello, I am unsure exactly which sleep disorders. We are specifying or talking about here, but I struggle with insomnia growing up and then later in life, it turned to hyper insomnia. I guess where I wanted to sleep well within the next day and sometimes have trouble staying awake anyways an issue I noticed that I’m not realizing as heavily abnormal is every single day. I wake up, probably an hour or two into my sleep with a unstoppable urge to eat some food usually chips or sugar just anything sometimes I’ll wake up multiple times a night every hour and do this. I’m only now realizing after moving in with roommates instead of my family I’m 28 years old that that is not OK and is irregular and honestly, if it was just one. Little snack and more controlled. It’d be one thing but I feel absolutely out of my power to stop myself and now I’m realizing it’s probably going on 5+ years maybe more like 10 to 15+ but I had issues with substance abuse so my memory and my appetite during that period are skewed, but I know that for five years straight, I’ve struggled with this. I’m just trying to find some relief. Honestly, my doctor has placed me on a couple different sleep medication’s for insomnia in the last year I guess they hypersomnia went away, but I’ll be honest and none of those medication to make it any easier to stay asleep. I mean, I always fall asleep and then fall back asleep but just waking up to eat is killing me. I can’t be certain nor have I gotten advised on if it actually is affecting my sleep quality in anyway but any tips? Currently I’m on Zoloft at night for depression. That’s been ongoing as well as trazodone in the last year. The one thing I’ll say is I have Medicaid so in my opinion, My Psychiatrist usually doesn’t know what he’s talking about nor can he give me help on more complex issues other than get me to sleep or give me Zoloft. I could be totally wrong. Maybe I should give the guys some grace but what I will say is when I came to him with this specific issue he told me just don’t do it. You are training your brain to believe that it should wake up at 3 AM for food, which is honestly really informative and not at all helpful.

I am a 28-year-old male( yes I know ) I now realize I’ve been struggling on and off for a great majority of my life with this issue. For a long time substances and alcohol helped, then once I got sober because of hard drug Juse PD five inhibitors gave me great results. Two years ago, I started using anabolic steroids and did a cycle of heavy usage one year, ever since then a declining reaction to sexual stimuli and or PDE5 inhibitors. I found a sexual medicine urologist who prescribed me Trimix. 30/1/10 formula. Didn’t find much luck other than the fact that the medication now works what I mean is that for a great majority of my experiences the alprostadil component has caused me a great amount of pain / ache / and even sometimes priapism that needed to be fixed with stimulants like Sudafed or at home injectable phenylephrine (3 times to count on the ladder). The doctor didn’t have any answers for me he only had that one formula and said that when the other dose went up, so did the Alpstadil. I now have a different prescriber who I’m going to discuss alternatives like bimix or lower alprostadil trimix. My primary urologist has ordered a penile radar thing. I’m following up with a endo as well , cause to be frank even steroid induced ED doesn’t usually break people this bad, but when I look at the record I’ve struggled long before that. It sucks because that trimix pain can sometimes really suck , but since it sometimes doesn’t I just shoot the shot, because anything beats the debilitating feeling of just not performing whatsoever. This gives me multiple rounds and I’m happy with that aspect. Anyways , any tips ? Where do I go from here? New prescriber even mentioned this medicine losing effectiveness after decades of use so I need an escape plan. I’m trying though , and I just started dating this girl like 3 months ago
Who has no idea about my issue or the medicine I used for it, i’ve had plenty of partners who are more than chill with it, but to be fair rarely have I ever said hey I have a diagnosis. Trimix also makes it tough cause I wana fuck at 6 pm I’m unlikely to be going again at midnight , which would be normal for me , but the trimix in its current state causes a decent amount of pain and trauma my dick seems like it needs to recover from.

Any criticism, tips , or advice on how to move forward in general would be greatly appreciated. That being said this medicine did really save me from a I’m fucked forever with no way out, now I just need to handle the rest of the situation because of the penile ultrasound comes back fine it means I am not broken