not sleeping well lately

[flash]

I have had this problem as long as I can remember and thought it was normal . I never really thought about it until I started waking up more tired than when I went to bed. I was doing good to sleep 2 0r 3 hours a night. A few years ago I went for my annual physical and asked my doc what he thought .He asked me all kinds of questions and determined that I had chronic insomnia ,an illness he himself has. He put me on Ambien and that really screwed me up as my mind was asleep but my body was not. My wife tells me I was constantly housecleaning or doing something and she was afraid to sleep and could ask me anything and I would carry on conversation like I was awake. I never remembered any of it and was even more tired . My doc finally put me on a lighter med that I still take and works great and its cheap.