tl;dr - despite some progress with meds, at night when I lay down to sleep it feels like my body never fully relaxes and I can feel my heart beating in my chest and up into my head and I still struggle getting to sleep on random nights. Does anyone else have this?

I've been struggling with anxiety and panic attack issues since late June and those also bled over into giving me mild insomnia.

It's been a rocky journey but lately I feel like I've started to turn some corners as far as progess. Been seeing a therapist and gotten steady with a psychiatrist that I feel is helping me a lot

Right now I'm taking 10mg of Lexapro and have been for almost 8 weeks, thats helped a lot but before I started meds I was already having sleep issues. Finding something to help with sleep was rough at the start but for the past 3 weeks I've slept every night using just Ramelteon. But, last night for some reason I just felt a higher anxiety spike and wasn't able to really get much sleep. I don't know why. I'm assuming it's just a fluke since this hasn't happened yet but it's still the same weird issue I listed at the start.

It feels like when I lay down to close my eyes and relax my body wants to go into this state of hyper awareness or alertness like some danger is there but I'm just trying to sleep, my eyes will often slide open when this is happening, like its hard to keep them closed

Has anyone struggled with this and did it eventually go away? This is probably the most frustrating symptom to deal with. My psychiatrist thinks that I'm on the right path, he did warn me I might still have a restless night here and there but I'm not sure when this is going to stop

Thank you ahead of time for any advice