Posted by mars on January 13, 2001, at 1:18:56
In reply to Me again!!!!! Can't Sleep, posted by tina on January 10, 2001, at 22:56:33
Hi Tina -
Meant to add this earlier, but I'm not functioning too well ;-)
After I had a bad reaction to my first SSRI (Prozac, in 1989, first med I'd been on in ten years), I've had a horrendous problem with insomnia - had to be hospitalized once because I literally didn't sleep for a month. I tried herbs, (valerian, passionflower, etc), which helped at first then stopped helping. I was eventually put on carisoprodol, then Klonopin, which I became addicted to. (Boy, that was fun.)
My current pdoc is a bit wiser than the one I had back then and won't prescribe anything addictive, except lorazepam in small quantities now and then. The weird thing is that the med I just started, Provigil (Modafinil), has had a really beneficial effect on my sleep.
I'm taking Provigil for level of energy, not narcolepsy, but I've found that at the end of my day I actually nod off to sleep now, instead of tossing and turning for hours. I'm even recalling some dreams, which I haven't done for at least a decade.
I realized after I posted my thing about the mantra that when I was having my worst insomnia I wouldn't have been able to use it to help myself at all. But now that I'm getting at least a little bit of sleep every night, I'm able to try to learn something like that to help myself.
Good luck. I'll be thinking of you.
mary
> Hi all
> Just me, lurking cuz I can't sleep again. Nothing interesting to say except this place has been kinda quiet lately. Isn't this time of year particularly bad for depressives like us?? Statistically I mean?
> Oh well, maybe it's just me. Nevermind. Just babbling.
> Later
> Tina
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