Posted by alienatari on January 27, 2005, at 5:05:44
Hey all. I posted yesterday about how i couldnt sleep. I phoned my psychatrist and he wants me to not sleep for 24 hours and then see if my body will tire doing that and I can get some sleep. He was also talking about upping my zyprexa. Personaly, i do not find zyprexa at all sedating. So i dont think that will fix my insomnia. I have Bipolar I and Im on Parnate, Zyprexa and Epilim (Depakote). I dont think im manic. I really think im just having insomnia caused by the Parnate, it just seems odd that i didnt have it all along.
Anyway, he said Stilnox (Ambien) would probably not work if Xanax isnt making me sleep. I just took some more xanax, but twice as much as I did yesterday. I really dont want to spend another night awake doing nothing i cant stand it.
I hope he perscribes me something that will work better for my sleep. Actually I hope he perscribes me a low dose of Thorazine as sugested in my last post, or a related typical neuroleptic as I have a lot of nausea from Parnate (im taking Ativan to stop the nausea, it is doing the job but its hard for me to get my doc to perscribe it). Also, Parnate has not made my blood pressure lower, it sits mostly at 120/80.
So yea, im so confused and I dont know what to do. What if my doc wont perscribe me something to sleep? Will i stay awake forever lol???!
And btw, I really hate Zyprexa, I think the only thing its done for me is made me fat. It has done NOTHING for my paranoia. Seroquel was great for my paranoia but I had to stop it because it made my throat close up.Take care and thanks for reading.
poster:alienatari
thread:448517
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050124/msgs/448517.html