Posted by detroitpistons on January 18, 2006, at 9:01:59
In reply to Re: Med-induced hypomania? Crazy and hopeless » detroitpistons, posted by 4WD on January 17, 2006, at 22:12:38
Sometimes at night it all goes away. And I take my last Klonopin dose of the day at about 2 or 3 pm. By maybe 9 or 10 at night, sometimes 11, I feel almost normal. Sometimes I even feel happy at night. But when I wake up in the morning, it's all back again. I feel bad every single morning. Scared and wired. That's what wakes me up- the nervous feeling. I don't get enough sleep because the nervousness wakes me up.
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> When do you feel okay? It is at regular intervals or is it random?
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> Until I started this thread I had no idea there were so many people here having these very same symptoms. Seems like *somebody's* pdoc could figure it out.
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> Marsha
Marsha,I take Trazadone at night, and sometimes I still don't sleep well. I never used to have a hard time sleeping when I was younger...Then I got into the habit of taking Xanax at night, and then everything changed. Now I can't sleep at all without chemical assistance -- that's a big concern of mine. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm all keyed up because of this supposed hypomania. Anyways, sometimes I wake up a couple hours early. I stay in bed in kind of a half sleep, but it feels like I'm actually thinking the whole time! I've been extremely irritable when I wake up, and not because I didn't sleep enough. You don't want to get in my way in the morning (recently).
I feel OK mostly when I'm home at night, although it seems like I can't relax. I don't really want to sit down and watch TV (this would be a great time to get back in the gym!) I spend a lot of time on the internet because it takes my mind away from things, and sort of allows me to try to dissipate all this excess energy because I can almost surf as fast as I can think (well, not really, but...)
Also, on the weekends I sometimes feel better too.
But being that I'm single and in my twenties, I go out on the weekends (when I'm not depressed). Usually I have some drinks, and that may have the effect of settling me down some the next day. But I still do feel anxiety on the weekends. It's just really hard to explain. My moods have been so variable lately. I can feel depressed/anxious one minute, and then be fine later on that day.I think I may be starting to feel the Lamictal, but very, very subtly. I have a good feeling about this.
Marc
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