The cool insomnia club #2

It's almost 4 am here. I have been dealing with insomnia for a while now. I think it's causing me to go hypomanic. My sleep is all mixed up. For some reason I just like being up at night. Being bipolar means it's really not healthy for me. I like watching the sun come up. I'm still in bed when the sun goes down. I sleep from 8:30am to 9pm. Vampire hours in my opinion. If I have shopping to do I do it around 7am. Don't know how I do it every day. Somehow I manage. It sure gets lonely though. Being a nighter isn't always great. My husband sleeps all night. I sit up front with music on and my forum page open. Back to my music now.

This is how I am. Including the shopping at 7 if I have to do it.

I fell asleep around 2. So up from 8:30-2 but I was in a good mood. I woke up at 5:54. I’m super anxious right now and not hungry even though I barely ate yesterday. I don’t even want an iced coffee or tea or a soda like I usually do in the mornings. I just want more sleep and anxiety meds.

I actually slept pretty well last night. I think I fell asleep around 11pm and got up at 4am. I'm told I was screaming in my sleep again.

I’m lightly sleeping for about 5-6 hours. I’m aware I’m in bed, I wake frequently and am tired all day. But I never could nap no matter how tired I am.

I’m in bed but I’m trying to stay up for a couple more hours. It’s still kind of early and I don’t want another night like last night.

I fell asleep right before midnight and I woke up right around 5. I feel ok despite the muscle aches.

Nammu I hate your Provider

3:30am over here, no sleep whatsoever for the second night in a row. I'm going to try taking the vraylar at night and see if that helps.

I guess 5:30-2:30 is enough sleep. I don’t feel like going back to sleep but I don’t feel like getting up either. If I were working I’d get up now and take a shower and watch Full House or whatever is on these days.

I’m on my second night of no sleep too, really sucks man.

Nammu can I beat someone up for this????

Sure. 😃 the doctor! The PT nurse told me to call the doctor and tell him what’s going on. At the very least he owes me an explanation! I’m having hot flashes then I’m chilled. PT was horrible today because of it. I also have double long vision. I really shouldn’t be driving. My head is roaring and pain!

I took 36 milligrams of melatonin at 6 last night. I didn’t fall asleep until 12:30. I woke up at 6:30. I feel tired but I also took my vertigo medication which causes drowsiness. I can’t even remember the last time I got decent sleep. It’s been weeks.

I’m not sure why my sleep was so bad last night. The only thing I did out of the ordinary was reading a book all afternoon.

When I can’t sleep at night I’m in a good mood and it makes falling asleep even harder. I’m not sure if I’m hypomanic or if it’s just real bad PMDD.

I just learned today that too much melatonin (5mg is the average recommended I found online) can actually make it harder to sleep because it screws with your circadian rhythm.

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I didn't sleep last night again. Nammu, may we both finally get some shuteye tonight!

I shall sleep tonight. I talked to the nurse, told her my symptoms and she talked to the doc and now I have my full dose script. But instead of two I’m only going to take 1. After so long without any 1 should work. I’m gonna see if I can wean myself off so this never happens again. The whole thing should never have happened.

I did take a cut up 10 milligrams tonight. So I’ll see how it works. So far I’m not as tired as I was earlier and I’m in my weird manic like phase the way I was last night. So I’ll see how things go.

I have been overserving myeslf Xanax not to dangerous level but I had no choice to sleep to stay safe.

Took an old klonopin and slept a couple hours so I guess that's good.

I took 5 milligrams of melatonin and I slept for about 9 hours. Through the night too. I had some weird dream about Halloween. I woke up feeling rested but kind of anxious because I hadn’t taken my Geodon in 14 hours and I didn’t take a Valium in about 18 hours.

Oh yeah! I slept!!! My normal dose is 2 but I wanted to see if I could get by with just 1. That didn’t work at 3am I was still awake so I took the second one then and fell asleep for the rest of the night. Pure bliss! Still I’m going to cut down to 1 1/2 so I can have left overs. I think I’ll make 1 1/2 my new dose then have just 1 some nights until I get down to one a night.

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Originally Posted by Nammu Oh yeah! I slept!!! My normal dose is 2 but I wanted to see if I could get by with just 1. That didn’t work at 3am I was still awake so I took the second one then and fell asleep for the rest of the night. Pure bliss! Still I’m going to cut down to 1 1/2 so I can have left overs. I think I’ll make 1 1/2 my new dose then have just 1 some nights until I get down to one a night.

Great news, Nammu!

I took a little more than my max dose of temazepam and slept at least 5 hours, maybe six, not really sure what time I fell asleep although I'm paying for it now feeling like crap mentally. Headache is gone though, so there's that.

I woke up at 3:30. I fell asleep around 7. So I got enough sleep. I don’t have my meds so there was nothing I could do except stay up. I drank some Oreo iced coffee and a Pepsi zero. I’m not sure if the coffee went bad. I couldn’t really tell if it tasted off. I thought it might have but I’m always thinking stuff is off. I also couldn’t tell if it was a reaction to the Valium, muscle relaxer, melatonin combo I took last night, but half an hour ago I had a ton of stomach problems. I feel decent though physically. Mentally I don’t feel that great.

Nammu My Heart is so happy that you got that mess sorted out and you are getting much needed sleep