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Yeah, i experienced that pretty frequently when things were bad. It’s just a sign of hyperarousal usually, nothing to be scared about.
I did find taking magnesium glycinate helped. I didn’t take it with the thought it would help me sleep, it’s more for some relaxation and muscle tension relief.
Well i went and did both classes, and pushed myself. According to my watch I burned almost 900 calories. This really is great to show her that even after a really bad night i can do amazing things!! To anyone reading this in the future so can you!!
Well everything is not sunshine and rainbows, and that’s something I’m really learning to be more present with. My default for all my life was to push away the feelings, take a benzo to make my calm down, etc.
Last night was tough. I napped during the day, and wasn’t tired at bedtime. Stayed awake, but as the night wore on i got more and more anxious. In and out of bed restless and kinda shaky. In the past i would have taken an ativan in the holes to make it stop. This time i decided it was good practice to just feel so the feeling and worse the sensations. I think i got about 2.5/3 hours of sleep. I really thought about canceling my first martial arts teaching class tonight but what am i going to do at home? Wallow in misery? That’s dumb lol. So I’ll still be going, and having a good time.
Even a month ago i would have given up at this point. I’m proud of myself.
Hi! Have you asked your doctor to help with a plan to taper the sleeping meds?
I was taking two things, seroquel (quetiapine) and clonidine. I got off the seroquel first with a pretty fast taper. Didn’t really experience any issues. I am now tapering the clonidine, I’m down from .3 to .1, and will go to .05 for a few days starting tomorrow. This was pretty scary to do, so I totally get it. You just have to really try and trust your body knows how to sleep and it will happen eventually. You might have a few bad nights, but they will get better!
Oh and i forgot to mention the 3 good things. This is something I’ve done before but fell out of the habit a year ago. I really like doing it again! It makes me laugh how many of mine are related to good food i ate that day though 🤣🤣
Right there with you. I had a bad night last night after 6 days in a row of great sleep. Struggling with how I’m not dead ass tired right now when i only slept at best 2 hours last night.
I think all we can really do is keep practicing acceptance and realize we’re not in any danger. Yes it absolutely is hard to get through, but so is sleeping badly every single night instead of once a week (that’s what kinda happened for me the first 2 weeks of the course i went from 1 or 2 good nights a week to 1 or 2 bad and the rest good.) things are improving, which i think makes the bad nights even worse somehow. Just keep practicing is all we can really do.
As far as meds, i mean im not you or a doctor but you’ve made it this far without. I know it sounds so nice to take a pill and (maybe) sleep…. But what happens when it stops working. Up the dose? Change the meds? And personally i am way more groggy when ice taken them vs just slept poorly. Just my opinion tho, you gotta do what’s best for you!
It looks like we’re at roughly the same point in the course, so hi! Just wanted you to know you’re not alone here!!
Maybe, when you’re feeling all that anxiety instead of trying to breathe or all that stuff, to make it stop what if you just let it happen? Or egg it on, dare it to be as bad as it can? I read a book about anxiety, nothing to do with sleep, and that was something i really resonated with. Instead of fighting the anxiety, or trying to suppress it, challenge it to do its worst. You’ll realize you can coexist with the awful feelings. The book was called Dare by Barry McDonagh if you like reading as much as i do 🙂 ❤️
We’ll both get through this, I’m sure of it!!
