Ah, sorry. I tend to mention it because a surprising number of people have only ever been exposed to those awful drugs that break your brain and have you driving all night in your sleep and stuff.

It was a kind thought. I have idiosyncratic reactions even to medications that aren't supposed to cause them, so I have never even tried things like Ambien or Lunesta: it always felt like a really terrible idea.

I assume you'll have tried anything else I'll have heard of, so all I can say is you have my utmost sympathy and I hope it gets better soon.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

(I mean, I'm sure it will, but you'll sleep eventually! It won't be forever! doesn't help even slightly when I'm telling myself that if I can't sleep and just the thought of saying that to someone else without this level of caveat makes me want to punch myself.)

Heh. I keep reminding myself I cannot have familial fatal insomnia because by now I'd be dead.