I’m on Zoloft and buspar which work about 50% of the time to keep me at a baseline calm, but my anxiety is skyrocketing at night. I’m a med card patient and am almost always high but it doesn’t help at night.

Every single time I have to go to sleep, I start feeling like I can’t get a good breath. It starts slow but the more I think about it the more I begin to think I’ll lose the ability to breathe. Then I get itchy, in random spots that progressively get worse and more disruptive. It’s not anything environmental, I have a long history with itching as anxiety symptom. I have to bounce or somehow move my legs to calm down, which (understandably) annoys the absolute shit out of my wife. It’s gotten so bad I have to sleep on the office couch some nights because I can’t sit still without feeling like I might explode. 

Long story short I need some advice from people who specifically suffer the most at bedtime. How do you combat the suffocating feeling? What do you do when you find yourself with seemingly infinite nervous energy and you NEED to SLEEP?