Posted by Don_Bristol on April 11, 2006, at 22:59:25
Am on 50mg Parnate. It's not a large dose but if I take the Parnate a bit late in the day and that night if I forget to take my sleeping tabs then I will stay up through the night. My other meds do not seem to be causing this.
OK so I am not 101% alert during the night but I am surprisingly untired. I recall there's an inconclusive debate about the relationship between Parnate to amphetamine.
Subjectively I feel untired throughout the whole night, I do not get dressed for bed nor do lie on the bed or on anything else to get some sleep. I just carry on for the whole night.
During the following day I may get 2, 3, or 4 hours sleep at some point. It's not much sleep for someone who usually sleeps about 7 to 7.5 hours a night. And I can repeat this for several nights in a row. In fact I can go for a few weeks like this.
The QUESTION to you all is ... how long can one go with such reduced sleep without problems? It seems intuitively sensible that after a while the tiredness is going to affect me. Slow my decision making. Affect co-ordination. All that sort of thing. But subjectively I do not feel I am awfully low in functioning in those areas.
Having the extra time is very useful and I would like to use those nighttime hours.
If I were to get a regular 4 hours sleep a night on this regime then I figure I would be able to continue almost indefinitely. Surely this can't be right? My body seems designed for the 7 to 7.5 hours I used to get until recently and now hours a night seems like a luxury compared to what I do get. One 11 day period saw me get only 21 hours sleep - so that an average of less than 2 hours in 24.
Thought please guys.
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