What keeps you up at night?

[graceanne]

I'm like that with my pain meds. I've got scripts for flexerill and vicodin, but I can't take them if I have to get up and be usefull the next morning. If I REALLY need something, I'll break my flexerill into fourths so I can get up the next morning.

 

[Cattypuss]

Dear lord!!! The most I have ever taken is 100mg - I can't imagine what a 300mg dose would do! I'd probably sleep for 24 hours straight! I currently take 25-50mg and it eases me to sleep pretty well. (50mg if I don't have to get up the next morning, 25mg if I do.) When I was taking 100mg, I would fall asleep in the middle of eating or whatever I was doing, I used to compare it to being hit by the sleep train. Did you have to eat with your Trazodone? My wife is on it too, and if she eats it won't work. If I DON'T eat, it won't work! Kind of odd. Mine has always been strictly for insomnia though - I have Wellbutrin for depression.

Yeah, 300mg/day is the max allowed outpatient dose in the UK - any more and you have to be resident in hospital.

I was on two drugs concurrently for the depression - Lamotrigine, which I never had any side-effects whatsoever with, and the Trazodone.

The docs/pharmacists never said anything about eating. They just told me to avoid alcohol. But I did notice that eating seemed to make the Trazodone seem to affect me more strongly. If I needed to get up in the morning I'd be sure not to eat the night before.

 

[sb2009]

I have been on Trazadone before but for some reason, I have a wierd reaction to some meds that are supposed to make people sleepy - they make me wide awake and wired.

Last night was another crappy night of sleep, but I got a couple hours in this morning so hopefully will be on track tonight.

StrayKat - both my husband and other soldiers he worked with had horrible sleeping issue for awhile after they came back from Iraq and Afganistan. I can't imagine how it would be for you, it must be compounded multiple times. I think the Army has stock in Ambien, everyone I know is on it.

 

[DVS]

What keeps me up at night? Work. I work nights and I'd better stay awake or be fired. OK...sorry.

Some say silence is golden, but I beg to differ. I grew up with a very large attic fan that my dad installed. It was set up to blow out, so every window in the house that was open, sucked air in. That was our air conditioning when I was a kid. My bedroom window was at the head of my bed and the night air was blowing over my whole body. It was a wonderful way to grow up. If I got too cold, I could just cover up with blankets. Too hot, just lay there with nothing inhibiting the air coming into the window from outside and flowing over my body. Even if it was hot air, it was better than nothing at all.

The fan was upstairs and that's where all of the kid's bedrooms were. The fan was pretty loud and when it was on, it was often difficult to hear anything else, when you were in the same room (my sister's bedroom). Even the breeze coming into the windows was loud, as it passed over your ears, something similar to your head sticking out of a car window at 20 mph.

So, after a while, we kids got use to hearing the loud fan and actually preferred that noise, to sleep by. Sometimes, my dad would get up in the middle of the night and turn the fan off. I'd often hear that fan going off, and the silence was actually louder than the fan. I often couldn't sleep without the fan going.

To this day, I sleep quite well with anything loud going, i.e. a fan, music, street noise, a party next door, etc. in the background. In complete silence, it's impossible to sleep, as if that silence is very loud. In the day or the night, for a good sleep, give me a loud hum and breeze of a fan and I'm in heaven.

And just like when my dad would turn off the fan at night, if the electricity goes off while I'm sleeping, I'll always wake up. Because the silence is so terribly loud.

 

[graceanne]

And just like when my dad would turn off the fan at night, if the electricity goes off while I'm sleeping, I'll always wake up. Because the silence is so terribly loud.

I SO do that. I used to sleep with the radio on, but that bugs K, but he always sleeps with a fan - no matter the weather. I've gotten so used to the fan that the lights going out is never an issue, cause it will instantly wake me up. One time K'd pulled a muscle in his back. He was sleeping on the chair, cause it hurt to bad to sleep in our bed. I had to get up early the next morning so we agreed I could have the fan. In the middle of the night he tried to steal it and I was awake by the time he'd gotten to the end of the hall.

 

[DVS]

I SO do that. I used to sleep with the radio on, but that bugs K, but he always sleeps with a fan - no matter the weather. I've gotten so used to the fan that the lights going out is never an issue, cause it will instantly wake me up. One time K'd pulled a muscle in his back. He was sleeping on the chair, cause it hurt to bad to sleep in our bed. I had to get up early the next morning so we agreed I could have the fan. In the middle of the night he tried to steal it and I was awake by the time he'd gotten to the end of the hall.

Isn't it great to have a secret talent that nobody else knows about? It's like a special power that "normal" people can never understand. If K had only known...he thought because you were asleep, he could steal the fan. Little did he know it's soothing noise was one of the main reasons you were sleeping.

 

[bruisedangel]

Insomnia. Total insomnia. Or hyperactivity. I'm not sure wasting time in front of a computer at 3am could be considered hyperactivity, though. And then there's the fact I often work until 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning. Till I come home, unwind, putter around the house....no sleep! It's gotten to the point if I have more than four hours at a time, I wind up feeling more tired than I did before. The middle of the night is also the only time I really have strictly for my own use, and I take great advantage of that. Melatonin does nothing. Ambien makes me feel lousy. Lunesta works, but, it's expensive and it leaves a terrible taste in your mouth all the next day.


Oh, for the days of alcohol and illegal substances.....


I'm kidding. You couldn't pay me enough money to want to be that young, again. The older I get, the more I like me. Even though I refuse to let go of my inner child.