I wrote previously about how I only seem to get 4.5 to 5 hours a night of good sleep before an uncomfortable period of intermittent waking/sleeping. This is, to a large part, a result of my having developing tolerance to my sleeping pills. I've been taking Zopiclone for a few years now - that's Lunesta in the U.S. When I started, I got a good 7 hours of sleep straight. I knew that if I had enough hours in bed, I was going to feel refreshed in the morning. But  now all I get is that lousy 5 hours max on a single pill. When I wake up, it's a crap shot if I'll fall back asleep or not. In the last few days, I crapped out and as a result my days have been like walking through a fog.

Now, if I take another half a pill at 5 in the morning or whenever I wake up, that usually does the job. But I'm concerned about developing tolerance to that routine too. Plus my Zopiclone prescription is only for one a day and my doctor has already hinted that if I'm needing more pills, not less, then maybe he'll stop it all together, which totally terrifies me because then I'll be back where I was before all this, not sleeping at all.

This is getting to be a real bummer. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to cope with or even reverse sleeping pill tolerance?