Another sleepless night...

[Patze]

Yeah, hate the sleepless nights....especially when you have to work the next day, ugh.  Some days I can sleep 4-5 hours straight and feel like a million, other days its barely an hour and then awake for the next 30 hours; misery.  I'm on trazodone, and sometimes it works okay, other days not at all (get headaches from it though).

Hang in there Sktaylor and hopefully your doctors will be able to figure it out and help you soon.

Take care of yourself -

Patze

[sktaylor]

Thanks Patze. I got about 3 hours last night and now have a migraine. Plus the 90+ temps don't help any. I hope we will have insurance within the next four months. Then maybe I can get some of the tests done they are suggesting. But then again, how do I know which ones are truly necessary?

[jazzlover]

I sleep well most nights .. by taking...

200 mg of trazodone
1/2 Ambien
1 timed release melatonin

when I wake up in the night I take the other half of the Ambien

SLEEP is essential to the human body!

[quietdynamics]

I sleep well most nights .. by taking...

200 mg of trazodone
1/2 Ambien
1 timed release melatonin

when I wake up in the night I take the other half of the Ambien

SLEEP is essential to the human body!

Jazzlover....was wondering why you take 1/2 Ambien and time release melantonin?
I take the same combination. 10mg Ambien and cheap generic OTC 3mg melantonin (when they are on sale 1/2 price; I pick up two). Sometimes I'll wake 6-7 hr into sleep for water, then go back to sleep.

I require about 10 hrs of sleep to function. With this combo I wake alert and refreshed. So my theory is that my body need the 10hrs. of RESTORATIVE sleep. Even then when I overdo...my body may need a nap.

At the onset of this syndrome...I would sleep for hours (I might as well have been an absentee Mom  )....and get up stumbling, weighted, disoriented, .... so fatigued I wanted to cry.

Then, after a time only adding plaquinel......I could not sleep, the pain increased so we increased Cymbalta, and I really could not sleep even with the Ambien.(I moved the pm dose to 5pm, rather than bedtime...and now can sleep).

I was told Drs. instruct patients to take meds in the morning and at bedtime so that patients do not forget or skip a dose = better compliance. However, some patients metabolize, can respond differently to meds and taking them at a different time can be the simple solution.  In my case with Cymbalta, I did not need to reduce/adjust dose.

You can look up the "half-life" of a med, and talk to Dr. to see if a time adjustment is warranted.