Don't try and force sleep

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I tried to sleep 2 hours ago. Wasn’t at all sleepy, more bored. Anyway after an hour of tossing and turning and basically convincing my self that I would never find peace I got up. I had some tea and toast and put the telly on.

Am a lot more content now. Lesson? Don’t force sleep folks.

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Sounds like me when my insomnia hits. I spend a lot of time in bed pretending I’m sleepy. Lol

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Lol. Thing is I only woke at 2:30pm today so had only been awake 7 hours! Don’t really need sleep in such circumstances.

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It’s interesting that you are on Seroquel and it isn’t regulating your sleep cycle. Maybe you have built up a tolerance over time?

I fall asleep at the same time everyday on 400mg Xr. On second thought it could be my morning med which is putting me to sleep.

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Hey. You are right. Have totally built up sleep tolerance to seroquel. Doesn’t make me drowsy at all. I sometimes wonder if it is even working on my psychosis either.

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Just try going off it for a little while and watch the fireworks.

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I go to sleep at the same time and wake up at roughly the same time every day. My meds make me sleepy. My slee is med regulated. Before I became MI and was on antipsychotics, I used xanax and melatonin to sleep. I slept like a baby. I miss it, lol, but my current pdoc would never prescribe xanax or ambien or anything like that. I sleep well enough, just not like a rock like a used to.

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Before MI my body regulated sleep pretty good. Sleep disturbances was the start of my illness

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Ismonia got me psychosis

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The problem with that for me is that I always have a hard time falling asleep, and when I don’t get enough I’m sleepy the next day.

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That’s one of the inconveniences of living in a group home. We can’t be up and about after 11p.m.

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same here. was suppose to go somewhere this morning. couldn’t sleep. turns out my brother’s orange soda has caffeine.

funny, he rarely offers soda.

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I’m a sleeper, I ly down I fall asleep. Probably sleep to much

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I sleep all the time. I stay up at night and sleep during the day.

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I sleep too much…
It feels like a waste of time…
I wish I were awake more…

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Seroquel never made me sleepy either. I took 900 mg a day back then and still couldn’t sleep more than 5-7 hours a week (yes, I do mean week). It doesn’t work on everyone I guess.

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sleep isn’t bad, Erez. I’d get bad headaches, and knew not why. but whenever I rested, I felt better.

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I know sleep is important.
But healthy people are fine if they sleep 7-8 hours.
I sleep more unfortunately,maybe 10+ hours.

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