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Apr 24, 2013, 09:44 PM
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Hi Everyone,
Since daylight savings time I've been waking up in the middle of the morning (2,3,4 am). Once I wake up I can't get back to sleep. I started taking Trazadone once I wake up. Well last night I messed up. I couldn't fall asleep so I took a Trazadone ard 9 pm. I woke up at 3am. I was afraid to take another Trazadone. Once I wake up I tried getting something to eat/ drink, it still doesn't put me back to sleep.
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Apr 25, 2013, 01:56 AM
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Hi Cocosurviving. I wake up and can't fall back to sleep either, but 6 hours sleep is decent. I find Seroquel good for that and good for bipolar, but Trazodone is great for sleep as well of course. It's tough being up in the wee hours cuz no one else is, and there is little to do--no place to go. I always get up for a bit and get myself tired enough to go back to sleep for an hour or so; I do some relaxing things. I hope you get your sleep in order. It's tough having insomnia. I wonder what is waking you up. I always find if I am calm and settled, I sleep okay. If I am discombobulated in any way though, revved and anxious, it's game over. Good luck to you.
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Apr 25, 2013, 02:37 AM
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I was in that waking up at 2,3,4 am for a long time getting adjusted to new meds. I started going to sleep at the same time. I try to take my meds at the same time. However, yesterday I took my geodon at 5 pm because I had just eaten and I have to take it with food. So I fell asleep at 7:30 pm...ooooops. Now it's 3am and I am up. I will take them at night before bed from now on and just eat a spoonful of peanut butter with it if I am not hungry. It works best if you take it with protein.
I live in an old hotel. When I can't sleep I ride the elevator to all 6 floors and walk the halls on each floor. I get up and make a cup of coffee and pretend its morning because I have already slept enough. I try to just sit and read or do something quiet. I think the hardest part about being bipolar is consistency. Consistency with med taking, the time of meds, meals, having a bedtime....all of that is hard for me to do! |
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Apr 25, 2013, 02:54 AM
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i don't sleep at all... and i've tried everything under the sun!
meds, meditation, soft music, i envy those that sleep well |
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Apr 25, 2013, 12:36 PM
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My weekday bedtime is 8pm and I take my meds right before. I'll be sure to eat protein. The thing I hate abt being up is getting up at 6am. After laying in bed missing hours of sleep, I feel like a train wreck. My body is use to having more sleep. I'm not sure what's waking me up, not sure if its a dream. One night my daughter woke me up. She went back to sleep but I was not able to. This all started after daylight savings time. It's taken such I toll that I've been missing appts due to being sleepy.
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Apr 25, 2013, 12:50 PM
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Does any light come into your room? You could try covering your windows in your room so it stays dark.
I think your body doesn't realize day lights savings has occured and it thinks that 2-4 is the right time to wake up. |
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Apr 25, 2013, 12:54 PM
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Reminds me of when I was a kid and I would wake up before everyone else at 4:30 or 5 and not know what to do with myself for several hours in the dark and quiet until others woke up. Luckily, when my grandpa woke up, when we were visiting him, I'd get up that early and sit with him while he had coffee or go with him to deliver papers on his stepsons' paper route. I loved that.
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