Insomnia

I put this here because I don't feel it's really a health issue, and I wonder if anyone else has insomnia and how bad it is.

I do get insomina, fairly frequently, but have never not slept for more than 1 night and then maybe I'll sleep 2-4 hours for the next few nights before I finally sleep normally.

I just went thru literal torture these past few days.  I had been waking up early, then, Friday, I woke up at 3:00 a.m.  I figured I'd sleep well that night.  Never made it.  Worked Saturday, tried to go to bed, never slept.  Same with Sunday.  I had even spent 5 hours shoveling snow (our official total was 20-22 inches) Sunday and figured that would definitely knock me out.

I went to my doc and saw his PA, Leo, yesterday.  I've never seen Leo look so concerned.  Oh, during this whole process, due to lack of sleep and stress, I got canker sores all over my mouth.  Ouch.  I had been up 70 hours when I saw Leo.  I didn't bother to shower and had on the same clothes I had worn the day before, didn't even wash my face or brush my hair - just pulled it back.  I just didn't care and I hurt so darned bad from all that snow shoveling (even my fingers and hands hurt), it would just have been too painful to change them.  I had mild hallucinations - seeing things out of the corner of my eye or what looked like a candy wrapper on the carpet but it wasn't there when I went to pick it up.  Scary.  I have little memory of the past few days.

Leo gave me some viscous Lidocaine for my mouth, which is nasty, but helps a little, and an Rx for Ambien CR.  I got home, fed the dogs, did a couple of things and sat on the couch.  My husband went to take a nap.  Bumper was on my lap, twitching, and Maggie was next to me, snoring up a storm.  I knew they had to go out for a walk so I asked them if they were ready.  Bumper twiched a couple more times, Maggie snored louder.  I asked them 4 or 5 times if they had to go, no response.  I finally went to stand up to go get their leashes and that's where I hit a wall.  All of the sudden, I just could not move.  It was like I knew my brain was just going to shut off and I had no say in the matter.  I hurried and shorted my cigarette, put my head back (I was sitting) and closed my eyes.  And I hadn't even taken the Ambien.  It was a terrible experience. 

My husband woke me around 11 to go to bed but I refused.  I just could not move and I was freezing.  He told me to at least lie down rather than sit but I didn't want to move and it would have just been to much to move, let along make the dogs rearrange their positions.  Hubby gets mad at me when I get insomina because I'm not quite as "with it" during the day.  I cannot understand this.  I know he wants a functional wife and I want to be one but it's not like I pray all day long that I won't be able to sleep.  I'm actually rather more of a sleep worshiper.

Anyone else suffer from any insomnia, and has it ever gotten really bad?  I know I would have slept until about 3:00 this afternoon if I didn't have to get up for work.