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Would like to seek for opinion on the sleep restriction and medicine tapering. Does people usually go for sleep restriction to build enough sleep drive then only start tapering down the medicine along the way? Or the other way round, as in just taper as per schedule and then use sleep restriction to ressolve the sleep issue? I wonder which i suppose to go first…
Please advice…
Thanks for the great question, Bee! To be honest, I don’t think it really matters which way around you do things — of course, you shouldn’t make any changes to your medication without talking to your doctor first.
In the short-term, you may experience some sleep disruption as you taper-off medication — and that’s often down to the heightened short-term monitoring that occurs whenever we make such a change. The fact of the matter is, though, that if we remain awake for long enough, we will always sleep — whether we take medication or not.
So, please don’t feel rushed or pressured to make any changes until you feel ready to do so! I’d encourage you to get started with sleep restriction and go from there!
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