[CopperStar]

My brain is a beast when it doesn't want to sleep, which seems to be lately. The past couple of nights, after taking Olanzapine, I didn't become drowsy. I felt a little drunkish after a couple hours, but not sleepy at all. I was awake well past midnight, and when I tried to just lay there in the dark to fall asleep, I started getting some serious restless legs (and arms) going on. Very uncomfortable tension builds up in my limbs until I stretch them out, and then it comes right back. If I don't move my limbs, the tension builds until my legs or arms (or both) start to flinch. This makes it extremely difficult to fall asleep. When I do finally nod off, I keep waking up over and over again with restless limbs. By morning, I feel really drunkish and lethargic.

Have any of you ever gotten these crazy restless limb issues? Have you ever had a mixed/manic state start to overpower an AP?

I swear my brain is just like an ornery toddler sometimes, doesn't want to sleep and then throws a fit if I try to make it go to sleep.

[Ripose]

I just woke up an hour ago because of restless arms, it is still going on even awake.
I HATE IT!

I don't know of anything that will stop it either except time.

[CopperStar]

Originally Posted by Ripose

I just woke up an hour ago because of restless arms, it is still going on even awake.
I HATE IT!

I don't know of anything that will stop it either except time.

Mine seems to happen only when I am trying to sleep, when I am trying to be still and embrace a quiet mind. As long as I'm actively distracting myself, I don't seem to notice it. So it makes me worried that it's just psychological, which worries me because I suck at coping with purely psychological things.

[elevatedsoul]

ive had this really bad, it stopped after i stopped taking trazodone... oddly
i found that muscle relaxer baclofen helped me

maybe it was just the mixture i was on at the time