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Originally Posted by cocoabeans
How do I function without sleep? Well, I've posted enough about sleep to say I don't have any other choice.
I'm also anxious a lot, nearly all the time right now but, ever notice anxiety feels just like being excited about something? I can trick myself into thinking I'm happy 
The last two weeks I feel like I'm on the verge of a migraine and I guess the pain killers are just holding it back because they seem to be doing nothing. Probably a result of lack of sleep!
You slept more in one night than I have in two days! |
My anxiety does not feel exciting at all! The feeling of squeezed heart is nothing exciting. There is no way I can believe that this is mania. And I know, 7 hours is a lot for some people - Madonna claims that she is functional on 5 only, but NOT ME!
Well,
-- left two VMs for the p-doc asking for a low dose of Seroquel. Akathisia did not start for me until a fairly high dose - higher than the usual sleeping aid dose. I remember sleeping very soundly on Seroquel - frighteningly soundly, as in "would I ever wake up?". So can try that again. Alas, no call back from the doctor
-- SURPISE, SURPRISE! Ex gave me one cannabis capsule to try for insomnia. I did not expect it after what happened (I coincidentally attempted suicide having tried a brownie for the second time in my life the night before - brownie at night, OD at about 5PM the next day, long after the effect of the high wore off but THC was still present in the system). He told me to research cannabis-geodon interactions online. There are only anecdotal reports and they vary: good and bad. So I will try and see for myself. If it does not work for insomnia, I will take Elavil and will have a hard time fighting increased appetite tomorrow, which is not the end of the world for a day but in the long-term Elavil is not a viable option.
I will post tomorrow with the results of my trial. Something tells me that I will not experience anything: no relief from insomnia, no high, no nothing. But we shall see.