Insomnia.

fell asleep at 2, woke up at 5:20, great!

Had a friend share the bed last night, slept really easily. I just need a girlf apparently. That's nice.

i have this

I've been having insomnia ever since the semester started. I finally got proper sleep feel rested this weekend but the insomnia will probably start up again by midweek.

^^ this is my situation almost exactly
on and off, but basically can't sleep more than 3 hrs per night without drugging myself pretty thoroughly

driving me nuts

go to bed between 11-1, then wake up at 2, 3, 4am with powerful racing thoughts, twitchy legs, no sleepiness at all.

if i didn't know better, i would think there was brujeria involved

mine usually goes hand in hand with terrible night sweats.

i mean, i am avoiding excessive caffeine, exercising (running 3-4x a week and biking to work 3x a week), eating well, not really stressed out (that i can tell) and feeling more or less ok. why can't i sleep?!!?

I started Seroquel last night, and wow. It will knock your shit right out. Kind of shambling around half-awake today. What sucks is I'm not even sure how much of this is the lingering effect of the Seroquel and how much is my usual un-rested-ness after a fitful night of sleep. I distinctly remember waking up several times, as I usually do, and the Seroquel wasn't enough to keep me under through those.

nyquilled myself to sleep last night; in a stupor today

do you take a full dose? i usually only take half so that i can function the following day. i'm just kind of worried about my sanity at this point. like, this morning i woke up at 4:25, lay there for 2 hours, then went running. then i biked to work. still not tired.

quit drinking and smoking recently and it has made it much harder to sleep. last night was the worst of it -- throbbing veins, hot head, completely frustrated.

i only took half a dose, but i took it too late in the evening for morning clarity, alas

like i mentioned above i take trazodone for my insomnia and its been a godsend. Plus it only costs me 10 bucks for 3 months worth. If i dont take it im lucky to sleep at all.

people are starting to notice at work that i look tired; i just don't feel that tired is the thing.

starting to believe that someone put a hex on me
clearly this is a sign of sleep deprivation though :(

all your symptoms sound like sleep deprivation!

Every other month, like clockwork, deadline stress starts to mess with my sleep -- waking from vivid dreams at 3 a.m., not able to get back to sleep. Valerian works wonders -- 3 capsules at bedtime and boom, I'm out for a solid seven.

dunno if it's really insomnia, but for the past several months i've been waking up once or twice a night for at least an hour at a time. dr told me to try melatonin... what a joke. the punchline is reading melatonin trip reports on erowid. maybe try it next time u can't sleep

slept well last night thanks to a potent combination of sleeping pill (otc), glass of wine, bath, book.

hooray! let's see if i can keep this momentum -- feelin pretty good!

Seroquel was a disaster. Helped me get to sleep faster, didn't help me stay asleep at all, made me a drooling zombie falling asleep uncontrollably throughout the following day. Now it's

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/AtivanAd.jpg

and then if that doesn't work maybe something that is shot in dart form out of a high-powered rifle.

I took otc sleep meds last night, preceded by (1) glass of vino and (1) bath and I slept really really well. Don't want to gloat because tonight is another night, but it felt really good.

I think what I have is pretty low level, so getting it under control should be doable.

Let's hope so.

Did it work??

it worked that night
last night i got home from work at 10, stayed up til 12:30, woke up with a start at 5. i consider that a mild success. today i'm subbing so i have to teach, but i did an ok job with a bunch of people i don't know.
things are looking up, i guess? kinda slap happy today instead of exhausted and depressed.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/29/health.great.sleep.secrets/index.html?hpt=C2

tell me something i don't already know, cnn
i've even had my thyroid checked! it cost me $500 and i was fine! thyroid probs do run in my fam though, so i guess it's worth it to get a baseline number

i would like to be able to take a pill that prevents dreaming, i'm sure i would get a much better night's sleep.

went to bed at 11pm wed
woke up at 8am yesterday (nice!)
up till 5am this morning (wtf!)

i've had enough of this
3 hours last night

made doc appt

Staying in a hotel this week = waking up 6-10 times a night. I'm going to have black eyes come Friday.

The Ativan Experience isn't perfect, but it's helping, and it's nice to have handy during the day as a Get Out Of Panicked Uncontrollable Sobbing Free card. Too bad about the side effects making it unsuitable for longterm use, though I'm glad I haven't experienced any anterograde amnesia. Too bad about the side effects making it unsuitable for longterm use, though I'm glad I haven't experienced any anterograde amnesia.

going to the doctor today hoping for some kind of relief
otc medication only partially effective
i seem to be in some kind of unstoppable maniacal period and i wonder if it's my thyroid or something? i also lost 3 lbs, which is kind of a lot for me since i have pretty much been the same weight for the last 15-20 yrs or so.

ask for trazodone or at least mention it.

its been the best one for me, all the others made me feel like a bad hangover the next day.

thank you -- i need recommendations. is that generic for something i would recognize the name of?
btw i am not bipolar, pretty sure about that

thats the brand name. its used for depression really, but often prescribed as a sleep aid off market or whatever the heck they call it.

hey most people in a manic phase dont believe they are manic...just ask my wife. ;)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000530

;_;

thanks for the info though
i'll see what the doc has to say
maybe she'll talk to me for more than 12 min

typical doctors...is it a psych or reg dr?

reg dr/pcp

i've never seen a psychiatrist

ah. everytime i see my psych its literally a three minute appt. "any sexual issues, thoughts of suicide...no, good. Heres your scripts, see you in six months."

i tell you what though, last week i took a trazzy before bed and got frisky with the wife...in the tmi dept it took an hour after the deed for my boner to calm down. i thought i was going to have one of those priapism boners for 5-6 hours.

and one more thing, lack of sleep can obviously cause you to feel manic.

Yeah, I think that's my situation. I'm 99% sure I'm not bipolar. A little nervous abt this for some reason. I've never taken prescription meds for brain issues before.

not to scare you or anything, but lack of sleep was one of the causes of my wifes psychosis...but it was post-partum so take that with a grain of salt.

You'll be fine...everyone is on something these days!

any news ll?

yeah, actually
i went to the doctor on friday afternoon and dedicated this weekend to getting better
she gave me ambien, which works fine so far (no sleep-driving or anything weird really at all)
i feel better/rested but man this weekend was SO BORING

sleeping is boring

thanks for asking

cool.

Had a bottle of wine, fell asleep around 1, woke up at 4. now watching sin city while all's quiet.