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'xdunlapx' wrote on '26:
Yes that's hwat happens to me, I say I'll take them later and then never do… Then i'm up all night, too and its too late to take them. 😛
I take a plethora of pills for various medical issues.
Silenor – sleeping pill
Neurotin – for anxiety
Lexapro – for anxiety
Risperdal – for bipolar mania and depression
zocor – for high cholesterol (which is under 200 now but my doc still has me on it)
Tricor – for high triglycerides
Unithroid – for slow thyroid
Nexium – for GERD/possible ulcer in stomach
Zyrtec – for allergies
Flonase – for allergies (nasal spray)
lisinopril – for high blood pressure
Relafen – for bursitis (NSAID)
Metformin for type 2 diabetes
and soon I'll be taking birth control pills for Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
I don't think I left any out but I may have.. I used to take a powder inhaler called Pulmicort for asthma but since I quit smoking I don't need it anymore.
Oh the joys of taking medicine every night and morning. I usually forget to take my morning pills.
Blimey, no wonder you forget sometimes !!
I take 200mg amitriptaline which is supposed to be multi-purporse (tension/anxiety/depression and to act as a low level sedative), diazapam (obvious what that's for), 30mg codeine (chronic tension headaches, can't take paracetamol etc with my kidneys but I seem to handle codeine OK) and that's about it for now!
Hey Snow, welcome from a fellow newbie.
This caught my eye “I do know that I feel like my brain is buzzing and I sometimes go into a semi-awake/sleep mode. Interested in whether there is some kind of connection with interruption of brain chemicals/signals within the spine and what others did about it. “
I feel exactly the same most nights. Like, I haven't slept since Monday night, and I just wondered if you experience the same as the following..
Sometimes, especially if I've been sat down a while and haven't slept for a couple of days, when I stand up, it, it's weird to explain, it almost feels like a tiny seizure, you know, everything just goes hazy and you can feel your legs and arms jerking but can't do anything about it, it only lasts a few seconds, and then suddenly passes and I can move again.
This is what I'm seeing specialist about when GP refers me, because, with the depression, insomnia, and the case of I was in a coma 3 months ago it's just difficult to tell where one problem ends and another one starts.
But as I said, after 2-3 days without sleep, I tend to have these little 'episodes', it just feels like a few seconds of where everything goes hazy and my body jerks, then I 'come round' and I suddenly feel better, and actually less tired. So I wonder if it is brain signals.
'emmaree' wrote on '01:What are 3 things you must have !! for me its
1 Coffee 2 cups every morning before I start day
2 Chocolate
3 Perfume *( feel naked if I don't wear some)
1) My leather jacket
2) Real Ale
3) Punk music
My life dream was always to rule the world.
Now that I'm older, wiser, more mature, and really thinking about it…
…It still is.
9 PM? Ah why not, I'll pop in if I'm not in town, biker nights in town Sundays so if I'm here then you know I'm skint 😛
'AuraTodd' wrote on '23:I do spinning classes at the gym (exercises on an exercise bike) but lately i booked one and spent the previouse night awake as I couldn't switch off, so didn't get to go to my class because of exhaustion. Have booked another, if I don't sleep again I will still go. Anyone else had this problem?
I tend to have the opposite problem, someone once suggested to me that I exercise before bed, but, that'd only make me MORE awake. Which makes sense, considering exercising stimulates you. At 3/4 AM I tend to take my dog for a walk through the local woods, hoping that by time I get back at around 6 AM I'll just go to sleep, but most of the time once I get back, I just fancy a cup of tea and I'm wide again after the exercise.
I would say, though, that even if you haven't slept, still go. Not only will the exercise perk you up during the day, but also once your muscles have relaxed and the adrenaline/serotonin released wear off it may actually help you to sleep the night after.
'xdunlapx' wrote on '02:I made the mistake of not taking my pills tonight, which means I'm up all night again. I'm so lazy. If I would just take my pills I would probably be sleeping right now, being it's 5:30am. *sigh* I just remembered I didn't take them so if i took them now, I'd be sleeping the whole day away today. I swear I should kick myself. I kept saying Oh I'll do it later (take my pills) and then never got around to it. I look at the clock and hours have passed. Jeez. What a dope I am.
I know how you feel, I do that often. What pills are you on may I ask? My GP is keeping me on 200mg of amitriptaline for now while I await a referral with a specialist, and the specialist is referring me on to a sleep clinic (as I suffer from depression as well as insomnia, but they're not sure which is causing which).
But as I said I often do that “ah I'll take 'em later”, then never do. Then I'm up all night, and by time I really WANT to sleep, it's too late to take them cos they'll just make me groggy all day.
Listening to Adam Ant, cos I saw him live last night and now I have a craving for more. 😛
