Thanks for your responses! I couldn't get in touch with my psychiatrist until today so I did a video appointment with a doctor through Amwell. He told me to take 2 25mg tablets of Benadryl. I tried it and it worked. He also told me I was going to bed too early (9:45) and told me that if I'm going to wake up between 5 and 6, I should go to bed at 11. Going to bed that late makes me a little uncomfortable.
I didn't want Benadryl to be a long term solution so I talked to my psychiatrist today and he prescribed Ambien. I started off with 1/2 tablet and woke up at 2 am. Tomorrow I'll try one tablet and see if that helps. I did go to bed around 9:30 tonight. If increasing the Ambien doesn't work then I'll take the doctor's suggestion and sleep at 11.
My mixed episode is calming down a little but I just don't feel great at all.
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