Posted by Enigma on April 11, 2006, at 15:25:00
I have severe atypical depression and am on disability (for almost a year now).
After a million other meds, I finally tried MAOI's. Parnate was a side-effect nightmare, so I had to quit it.
I was then on Nardil for 3-4 months? Side-effects were bad, but not nearly to the degree of Parnate.
The worse side-effect was the insomnia and disrupted sleep. I would wake up with mania-type symptoms ever 1-2 hours, sometimes every 30 mins. Sleep aids didn't help much. Nardil DID help my depression, where SOOO many other drugs failed, so I just lived with the sleep problems for as long as I could.
Then I got ECT felt a considerable amount better and finally quit the Nardil, mainly because I couldn't stand not getting a decent nights sleep for months at a time AND wanted to gauge how effective the ECT was.
I slept a little "better", as in, not waking up ever 1-2 hours, BUT, it still takes me 1-3 hours to get to sleep at night. I just sit there and toss and turn and my brain goes into overdrive, racing thoughts, anxiety, worry, and other things I don't want to talk about (rage-related).
I play this game every single night. It doesn't matter when I try to go to bed.
I've tried seroquel at night, which gets me to sleep, but makes it VERY hard to get up in the morning.
Klonopin is the same. I wake up exhausted, and I think the Celexa is keeping me "down", tired, as well.
I haven't gone to bed and woken up "refreshed" in longer than I can remember, which I'm sure is based on more than just the MAOI's.
I tried a couple OTC sleeping pils and prescription. Same thing. I wake up exhausted, and that's IF I can even get out of bed.
Question is.. most of this stated with the MAOI's.
Will I EVER sleep normally again?
I used to be able to get to sleep in 15-20 mins after hitting the pillow. Now it's a battle, each and every night and it's driving me crazy. (Crazier than normal I should say).
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