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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
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Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
Posts: 675
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Originally Posted by roadrunner63
Another thing is that it's hard to sleep. Seems like my brain is hardwired in the on position so even if I sleep I'm tired. My body rests but not my brain.
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I know exactly what you mean here, roadrunner. However, in the first months, I was hypersomnia; my brain needed "shutdown time" for 12-14 hours a day. I slept 4-5 hour 'naps' a couple of times a day and slept very well at night.
That is, until I got Rx of antidepressant. It seems for me a side effect of the med?
For over a year my mind was stuck in the 'on' position with obsessive fear, worry, anxiety, terror, negative-thinking of all sorts of self-condemning 'life review' stuff. Sort of a force-fed nonstop slideshow, if that makes any sense-?
Now a year and half post-injury, I still have major sleep disorder, just as you describe. The docs won't Rx any sleep meds, only additional antidepressants "with more sedating effects".
Trazodone (sp?) was horrible for me; I couldn't breathe through my nose! (Seriously, it is one side effect.)
Melatonin did not work for me nor did 5HTP, valerian, chamomile,Sleepytime Tea, etc. I know I need a sleep study, but no $$$$ for that. I've tried exercising in the morning, or afternoon, or evening; warm bath before bedtime, hot milk,
good 'sleep hygiene', etc etc.
When I "can" sleep is peculiar for me --- that is, I can best sleep between 6am-noon.  It's like my biorhythmns have gotten turned around somehow.
The 'swoozy-head', dizziness, vertigo is worse for me when I've had a more or less sleepless night.
So for me, the antidepressants are a trade off of benefits. Like you, I'd like to not be on them. I just don't want to rock this boat anymore for now. I am dizzy enough as it is.
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Originally Posted by oneid1hrn
I have been successful with melatonin in the past to help me readjust my sleep cycle. Take a look, give it a try, talk to your doc, see if it helps.
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oneid1hrn, I am so glad that melatonin works for you. That is excellent. Somehow for me, it seemed to have the opposite effect, i.e. sort of 'buzzing up'.
Thinking of you both with all good thoughts for your health and wellbeing.
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50s Babyboomer; 2008 high-impact rear-ended/totalled-MVC, closed-head injury->pcs ... "Still dealing with it."
1993, Fell on black ice; first closed-head injury; life-altering. // 2014 Now dealing with Peripheral Neuropathy, tremors, shakiness, vestibular disorder, akithesia, anhedonia, yada yada, likely thanks to rx meds // 2014: uprooted to the cold wet gray NW coast, trying to find a way back home ... where it's blue sky and warm!
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Each and every day I am better and better. I affirm and give thanks that it is so. // 2014-This was still true for me last year, I truly felt this a year ago. Unfortunately it holds no meaning for me now. Odd, it was the Theta mantra for years. Change change change.
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