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The wheel of sleeping medications continues
7 years ago
Clinical anxiety, anyone?
SSRI-Induced insomnia is a bitch. At this point, I’ve tried trazodone, Klonopin, and temazepam all in the span of a month without success. Each one fucks with my head for a few days, I haven’t slept more than ~4 hours a night since April and it’s wrecking me and triggering my chronic pain disorder. At this point I legit don’t know if the insomnia or the mental illness is worse.
Last night was my first night of Lunesta, and it did nothing but make me exhausted all day today after sleeping for 3.5 hours. Supposedly I can go up to 3x the dose after a while though so I’ll give it some time but goddamn. If I can’t get some sleep soon, I’m going to have to go off the meds. Which blows because I REALLY like Cymbalta. It just doesn’t let me fucking sleep.
TLDR; productivity remains in the toilet because sleep deprivation and I fully understand why they use this as torture \o/ But expect a calendar update tonight and note responses.
SSRI-Induced insomnia is a bitch. At this point, I’ve tried trazodone, Klonopin, and temazepam all in the span of a month without success. Each one fucks with my head for a few days, I haven’t slept more than ~4 hours a night since April and it’s wrecking me and triggering my chronic pain disorder. At this point I legit don’t know if the insomnia or the mental illness is worse.
Last night was my first night of Lunesta, and it did nothing but make me exhausted all day today after sleeping for 3.5 hours. Supposedly I can go up to 3x the dose after a while though so I’ll give it some time but goddamn. If I can’t get some sleep soon, I’m going to have to go off the meds. Which blows because I REALLY like Cymbalta. It just doesn’t let me fucking sleep.
TLDR; productivity remains in the toilet because sleep deprivation and I fully understand why they use this as torture \o/ But expect a calendar update tonight and note responses.
Hope things get better for you!
Thank you!