I am super new here so please tell me if anything I've said is wrong!

I'm 36 F and live in the UK.

I somehow avoided covid from the start, largely because I am single, I live alone and I have worked from home since March 2020.

...until January this year - I caught covid, finally! I was constantly wondering when it was going to happen. It hit me hard. I was bedbound and off work for 2 weeks.

During this time I could not sleep well at all - I had to prop myself up on lots of pillows and would wake frequently.

Now, 7 months on, I still haven't had a full night sleep since catching covid. I can sleep about 15m-45min at a time, before I am awake again. 9/10 times I am sitting up right, on the edge of the bed with my feet on the floor. I then have to coax myself to lie back down again and then go back to sleep. This goes on all night.

I'm asking my GP for a sleep study because I feel like I'm going insane with the tiredness. My psychiatrist has also given me a course of Diazepam to take for a few days/week to try and 're-set' a pattern, but I don't feel great about drugging myself to sleep.

Happy to hear thoughts, ideas, shared experiences!