I had a total of 7 hours (not in a row), which turns out to be sufficiently less than my normal 8-9 hours a night to feel wasted. Did not go to the offsite. Cannot concentrate on work. The most miserable feeling of something squeeeeezing my heart persists. Slight anxiety. Left a frantic VM for the p-doc asking for 50 mg Seroquel because everything else either fails or causes increased appetite (Elavil). Temazepam failed, Benadryl failed, Melatonin failed. Trazodone failed. Posted on the Sleep Issues and Dream Interpretation board and will ask you guys as well: what is happening to me - is it illness+age or unorgasmia at work? I remember when I was not medicated at all in my twenties and thirties I could fall asleep at any hour following sex, either with a partner or solo. Are orgasms such powerful sleep inducers or not? Should I hope for unmedicated sleep following the return of orgasms (hopefully after some time after I stop Geodon) or is it a lost hope?

And how do people FUNCTION on little sleep or no sleep? Do you not get this feeling that something or someone squeeeeeezes your heart?

I am going go for a walk - maybe that will help.

I did not always fall asleep after sex. Sometimes I had periods when I was wide awake, but looking back they were (hypo)manias or mixed episodes. It was a distinct symptom of hypomania for me to stop falling asleep after partner sex. With my first husband, a prolonged period of not falling asleep after sex resulted in a call to a suicide hotline (which talked me out of it but stupidly enough did not suggest that I visit a p-doc), with my second husband I actually attempted, out of a mixed state. So now looking back I know that these were golden opportunities to take some Zyprexa (just PRN, not on a regular basis) and SLEEP, not DO anything. I wonder if anyone else has this symptom: suddenly stopping to fall asleep following partner sex?