I tried that a few times this week and was completely unable to sleep. When I first got on it, I would fall asleep after taking it and after 1 week, it was sort of okay and predictable. Since my sleep schedule got messed up this week from surgery, painkillers, I tried to take it at a new bedtime and felt I was in crisis. Yesterday morning, it was unbelievably bad. My doc said to try taking just half a pill a day and if it's intolerable, I could stop taking it since my dose is so low and I haven't even been on it a month. But I know I need to be on something stabilizing. As a migraineur who rapid cycles (I'm used to every day feeling like pits and valleys and when at my lowest I will go from "everything is fine" to "OH MY GOD" sometimes each minute), it seems like an anticonvulsant would be the way for me.

I drink 4-6 cups of coffee a day and smoke around 1 pack of menthols and along with 10 mg Lexapro that had given me enough control/predictability and a really good life for 10 years. 5 mg Lexapro may be too low for me right now but I think in many ways it's pooped out on me so I'm very much in need of both a new AP and a stabilizer.

Thank you for your response,

-B