what the heck? just when I hought things couldn't get any weirder. woke up a few times for a minute and tried to take my meds but arms wouldn't do what they were told. what now

30 hours... wow! get hydrated is the first thing I would do!

You must have been exhausted.

Do you feel any better now after you've woken up more?

You stole sleep from me. I hardly slept at all last night. Forgot to take my gabapentin.

sorry Mark . maybe the gabapentin really knocks you for a loop when you increase it and it builds up in your system. I felt better a little better but not 30 hours worth!!

I'm sure you get all the sleep from us and we are awake every night and you really knock down!!! Maybe you were exhausted and needed that sleep so bad.
I'm glad you are ok and hope you keep resting well,gentle hugs from jesika .
Please tell us the secret!!!

thanks Jesika..alas I increased the gabapentin because of insomnia, night terrors, nightmares, tremors, and broken sleep. sometimes I am up 30 hours and now sometimes I sleep 30 hours never a dull moment with a tbi/pcs. perhaps the gabapentin will keep building up and I will sleep like a normal human being for the first time in years. here' hoping we all find the supplement/regimen/medication that brings that to all of us

god i would love to just sleep and sleep til this f'ing thing is over. but i'm terrified to try a new drug after dropping amatryptaline and starting sertaline (zoloft) caused an anxiety attack...which ended when i reversed course.

i'm getting 8 hours w/ occasional ambien, and the amatryp makes my legs jumpy when i take more than 12mg at night, so haven't found an approved way to knock myself out for say, 6 weeks. then i'd hopefully wake up and feel like myself again.

any advice? or...is it: "there's no way out but through."

just fantasizing here, but wouldn't it be great if we could just check ourselves into a swanky hospital, some sorta drug would knock us out and another drug would fix our brain. then we'd wake up with no memory of the horrors of pcs, but we would still be able to walk away with the wisdom gained. or not. f' wisdom.

are you kidding? I would LOVE that. it actually exists now for drug addicts. it's called rapid detox, they put you under anesthesia and pump you with a drug that takes you out of withdrawal and you wake up ok. or something like that.

if it existed for brain injury I would pay anything. I actually felt good for two hours the other day and was ready to send you guys a dear john letter but then the feeling good went away