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Yes I certainly feel crazy, the sleep I do get is just REM sleep so when I wake up I feel like I've been running around in my sleep, I've also started acting out my dreams so I'm getting too much REM sleep, every day I battle with whats real and what isn't, I'm on trazodone too, as well as olanzapine, propranalol, zopiclone and vitamins to help.
I swear no one I know how it feels to be crazy from sleep deprivation, does any one else hate it when some one complains that they had only one nights bad sleep when you have these problems every night?
I was started on 300mg of Trazodone hydrochloride last summer which initially did nothing but I was told to continue the course as it would take up to 6 weeks to take affect. I think it did make my sleep worse for a while but I was in such a mess from not sleeping & depression that I couldn't tell what was & what wasn't making it worse.
A few months after taking them I stopped taking Zopiclone 7.5mg because these had started working as a sedative & they were calming me down physically, I asked to be put onto a lower dose so I was put down to 225mg.
Trazodone is known to give nightmares, suicidal & negative thoughts in some cases, but if you're getting those side affects you need to tell your doctor. Apparently these symptoms are worse if you have post traumatic stress syndrome.
It's mainly an anti-depressant with some sedative affects, it increases your serotonin levels but not everyone who can't sleep needs their serotonin levels increased. Have you tried Zopiclone?
I certainly think they fuel each other negatively, if you have depression you are likely to get insomnia because of the negative thought process & lower serotonin levels. & Vice versa, I've had insomnia since I was a child & I've gone through bouts of depression & solitude throughout periods of my life.
Once you're in that loop it's incredibly hard to get out, I felt the more I tried to get of it the worse I got. I went through an 8 month period last year in which I rarely slept at all, I'd have one or two hours sleep on one night and none the next, if I had slept a few hours on one night I would never sleep the next night. Although I would go through a few days at a time of no sleep at all. I think this happened because of stress, depression & finding out I had a rare syndrome which affected my mobility so I was no longer able to do most of the things I was physically able to do before.
I stopped seeing people because I was too ill or I couldn't socialize, the depression got worse which made my sleep worse. The lack of sleep & stress made my syndrome more & more painful. Which made daily tasks impossible and I ended up just not sleeping at all. The doctors said I was clinically disabled with insomnia!
Its impossible, that experience has made me change my view of life though, I'm now a lot happier that I'm no where near as ill as I could be.
