hoping to be able to go back to work next week

I am slowly recovering the ability to wake up / get up at fairly reasonable hours. Tomorrow I will try to make a 9AM meeting from home to see if this is a viable proposition. This morning I was up at 8:44 AM but that it not enough time to start a workday at 9 and continue for the whole day. Maybe if I get up at 8. And even then, only if I work from home as much more time is needed to prep for and leave for work and commute if I work from the office, even though my commute is short.

I still seem to require 11 hours in bed, at least. It is not straightforward to have a high pressure job with such sleep requirements. But at least it is no longer 14 hours in bed which was the case not long ago.

Meds-wise, I have raised Latuda to 100 mg and the pdoc and I decided to stop raising it for now since there was a risk I would flip from depression into hypomania. right now I seem to be at a reasonably level mood.

If I am able to return to work, then in mid-February I will go on a short company trip to Vegas. I am not a fan of Vegas but I do look forward to seeing so many out-of-town (remote) team members in person. Most of them I last saw in March 2022.

I'm glad that things are improving for you and I hope your Las Vegas trip will go well.

Well, it looks like it was a message with wistful thinking last night. I tried getting up for the 9AM meeting but it was impossible. I then slept and woke up and got up only at 11:15. That was more than 12 hours in bed: an untenable proposition.

I used to require 11 hours of sleep every night. Now I'm getting much less. For me, it's all about which meds I'm on.

Maybe I should keep trying different meds. I started needing that much sleep when I was on Zyprexa (but immediately upon starting it) and now I need that much on Latuda+Thorazine.

There are very few meds of the 30 or so I've been on (or tried) that don't cause hangover and the need for excessive sleep. For me, Lamictal does not cause sleepiness, nor does Gabapentin. I do find that the earlier I go to bed, then less sleep I need...to a degree.

Lamictal: insomnia for me. It did not do it initially, but when I tried reintroducing it in 2016, it caused insomnia and I had to stop.

I think I also, to a degree, need less sleep if I go to bed early.

See and lamictal put me on my butt but I also just started it so we will see if that goes away.

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Yeah, a lot of people find that with Lamictal. It isn't sedating for me, at all. But not much is.