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Seems an appropriate morning to introduce myself, as I only slept 4 hours last night, despite being ridiculously tired.
I'm Remy, from New Zealand. I have severe insomnia, medicated with quetiapine, clonazepam and melatonin. I haven't slept naturally for five years, and have been through sleep-dep psychosis.
I'm 22, like sports and comic books, and enjoy writing weird stories.
Hello! Welcome to the madness 😀
I love comics, have for, well, as long as you've been alive (that makes me sound older than I am *facepalm* Oh well). Which ones do you read?
I'm a bit of a Vertigo brat, love Sandman (irony…), Lucifer, Fables, Transmetropolitan, and right now I'm spending all my money on collecting Hellblazer. Haven't made it up to the year I was born yet.
I also love me some Batman, but only the noir stuff. The first comic I bought was “Arkham Asylum” so I was into creepy right from the start.
Welcome to the gang, Remy. If you enjoy writing, please take a look around the writer's corner forum here at Insomnia Land. We'd love to read some of your stuff!
Hopefully we can offer you some new tips and insomnia advice. If not, at the very least you'll get plenty of support here from people who know what you're going through.
Enjoy your stay; I look forward to getting to know you 🙂
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'Remy' wrote on '01:Seems an appropriate morning to introduce myself, as I only slept 4 hours last night, despite being ridiculously tired.
I'm Remy, from New Zealand. I have severe insomnia, medicated with quetiapine, clonazepam and melatonin. I haven't slept naturally for five years, and have been through sleep-dep psychosis.
I'm 22, like sports and comic books, and enjoy writing weird stories.
Remy,
You are SOOOOO… welcome here! I too have had chronic insomnia since my 30ies (I'm 67 now). You mentioned taking quetiapine. I've been taking quetiapine for about 5 years now too with Temazepam and Ativan. This combo worked so great for me for so long but all of a sudden (or maybe slowly and I just didn't notice)my wonderful sleeps I could count on every night are gone! My doctor recommended increasing my quetiapine from 25mg to 50mg. Had a BAD reaction to 50mg on the 4th night. Had a great sleep (and I was so unbelieveably happy to think I'd solved my problem). But my happiness soon turned in a real, real downer. So I've been taking about 37mg quetiapine for the past 3 nights (crappy sleeps). Tonight I'm going to try the full 50mg because I have 1 more day until I have to go back to work. so if disaster strikes again, I can compensate tomorrow night.
'1949Molly' wrote on '02:Remy,
You are SOOOOO… welcome here! I too have had chronic insomnia since my 30ies (I'm 67 now). You mentioned taking quetiapine. I've been taking quetiapine for about 5 years now too with Temazepam and Ativan. This combo worked so great for me for so long but all of a sudden (or maybe slowly and I just didn't notice)my wonderful sleeps I could count on every night are gone! My doctor recommended increasing my quetiapine from 25mg to 50mg. Had a BAD reaction to 50mg on the 4th night. Had a great sleep (and I was so unbelieveably happy to think I'd solved my problem). But my happiness soon turned in a real, real downer. So I've been taking about 37mg quetiapine for the past 3 nights (crappy sleeps). Tonight I'm going to try the full 50mg because I have 1 more day until I have to go back to work. so if disaster strikes again, I can compensate tomorrow night.
I'm on 75mg of Quetiapine and every time I've gone up a dose the hangovers have been BAD. Head-thumping, eat everything, feel gross all day bad. But I've gotten used to it. I'm now thinking a switch up to 100mgs might work. I also take an anti-depressant which helps because it's a stimulant and kicks me off into sleep (yay ADHD!) but I have issues staying asleep. once I'm awake, I'm awake.
'Remy' wrote on '01:Seems an appropriate morning to introduce myself, as I only slept 4 hours last night, despite being ridiculously tired.
I'm Remy, from New Zealand. I have severe insomnia, medicated with quetiapine, clonazepam and melatonin. I haven't slept naturally for five years, and have been through sleep-dep psychosis.
I'm 22, like sports and comic books, and enjoy writing weird stories.
Hey Rem, I just got here today as well. I wish I could sleep in a field of poppies. Sometimes I read graphic novels.
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