Cannot sleep at the station anymore

[u/c00kieduster]

15 years in, company officer at a suburb dept of 4 stations, 100ish people, 48/96. We average 4-5 in a 24 hr period, sometimes 1-2, sometimes 12-16.

It’s not all that uncommon for us to get to sleep through the night. However, in the last year or 2, I simply cannot sleep through the night. Even without calls, I’m getting up 2-3 times. Usually it’s a toss and turn, occasionally I’ll get up to go to bathroom but that’s not the reason.

When I’m at home, my head hits the pillow and unless something wakes me up, I sleep like a baby.

Anyone experience this? Got any tips?

[u/fireishot143]

1mg Melatonin. I’ve had the same issue before. 1mg is enough to get me sleepy enough to fall asleep within 30-60 minutes but it’s not a super high dose where it’ll mess up my body’s own melatonin production. Which very well may be messed up anyways considering I’ve had trouble falling asleep.

[u/Peaches0k → u/[deleted]]

The nightmares I’ve had on 5mg melatonin are straight horror stories. They’ve gotten so bad I don’t take it anymore unless I have something really important the next day and must fall asleep early