Insomnia.

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.

my eye is going weird :(

is it twitching?

yes, at the edges of the lids

It's tiredness apparently, which i guess you are, being on an insomnia thread :)
Doesn't last long, it's quite common, nothing to worry about.

solidarity, let's fight the night

i don't mind it sometimes, i open the blinds and watch it getting brighter while listening to music or watching a film.
it's currently 6:08 here and i'm getting picked up in a couple of hours to go and do decorating at my mothers house.

i'd happily stay awake for the rest of my life if i didn't have to wallpaper ever again!

could use some ambien

monday night i took my pain meds for my back, naproxen, vicodin and flexiril and didn't fall asleep until 4am. I can't take my sleeping pill if i want to wake up in the morning after taking pain meds.

maybe i'm nuts, but that is a lot of drugs, no?

ambien has been working for me, and i am very thankful, but i can tell it makes me like...wobbly. it's kind of embarrassing.

Be careful -- even if you don't run outside and try to drive a bulldozer off a construction site, you might find that the time between taking the med and actually falling asleep is a big black hole that you can't remember the next day. Pretty much harmless as long as you take it while in bed with a book or w/e! Just don't try to discuss anything important.

Also YAY SLEEP!!!

yeah thats a crapload of drugs for my back. but i didn't take my sleeping pill. my back is a mess.

Yeah, I feel better, and that's good, but i'm still swirling in chaos otherwise
kinda sleepwalking through life

y'all will probably hate me for posting on this thread since i'm usually a good sleeper, but my mind was racing from like 3:30 until ? (i think 5:30 or 6:00) this morning after i got up to get a drink of water. i knew what i was getting into, guess...once i stand up it's all over.

my brain was trying to figure out what to do with this song i'm working on, and once it what it thought was a good idea, it was afraid to fall asleep and forget it.

i also haveOCD and ADD, so if i don't take my OCD meds, my mind races uncontrollably.

jordan - do you keep pen/paper on your bedside table? that's kinda fun. i've been trying to find one of those little headlamp/book lights that are enough to see a book or w/e but not too bright to wake the neighbor so at least i can read without standing up/waking anyone (humans and dogs).

yeah that's a good idea. and i'd love to be able to read in bed without worrying i'm keeping my gf up.

i have one of these and it's pretty good - can be awkward to hold if you don't have the right sized book, though.

A, do you wear glasses at home/at night/to read? I see you with a little high-tech clip-on light that goes on one temple of yr glasses.

Unfort the only non-military-esque version I can find online actually stands up like a little E.T. on your nosepiece, and seems like it would be right in your line of sight 100% of the time.

i don't wear glasses or corrective lenses

but i that thing sounds like the device in THE JERK

scratch that i

but dang that movie is so funny
maybe i should just watch the jerk when i can't sleep

I don't know what THE JERK is, but all the "LED glasses" items I can find also come with some degree of magnification in the lenses. Pooh.

pretty tired

at least i'm not burping demons, i guess

you know, THE JERK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI8NuFAETMQ

the new phone book's here! the new phone book's here!

Here's a full-spectrum reading light that goes in a neck pillow, I kind of like that.

it's 02.25 and I have important work stuff @ 09.00 but I'm reading fuckin SB threads fml

is it true for other insomniacs that alcohol fucks your sleep up? i basically drank myself to sleep for years, but everyone says that it's 'bad sleep'. i think i like solid 6-7 hrs bad sleep to a few hrs of restless, waking 'good sleep' though...

^ but tbh used to it by now

xp sry.

never felt like drunksleep was worse sleep, ime

drunksleep better than no sleep imo but I'm not going to start drinking at 2.30a.m. with work in 6 hours.

definitely worse sleep ime
if i drink enough i may fall asleep faster, but i don't stay asleep