[WhisperingSilence]

I've marked this as triggering as there is going to be a slight mention of meds and mixing meds that generally shouldn't really like be mixed etc,

Basically, I am struggling with sleep. no matter what I do, I seem to be able to like get off sleep okay after a few mins etc, but then like come 5am, 6am or around those times I am waking up, it's not due to light coming into my room and I have two black out blinds in my bedroom so my room is like plenty dark enough, its not like noise from outside or noise disturbance as I have a fan on all night. I've tried going to bed later in the hopes I dont wake up at like 5am or 6am, but I still do. I have my phone on DND (do not disturb and on silent).

I'm on Two meds that are both sedative (Zopiclone and quetiapine/serouquel. however these aren't like proving to be enough, I've recently bought myself some over the counter herbal meds in the hopes they would help and took them along side my other 2 night time meds. But still no luck. I've tried painkillers that have a sedative effect too and that doesn't like seem to work, I feel tempted to mix my meds with alcohol to just like see if that makes me sleep through the night but haven't done so as of yet.

Each night before bed I read or listen to a podcast/late night radio show, I follow the same routine each night, I don't know what else to do, ironically at college we have been looking at how to improve sleep yet none of those techniques work either.

help. I am desperate for a full nights sleep!