These drug have me so hammered that I am not even ‘with it’ until 4pm. I take my fist full of meds at 10pm faithfully, I ‘go to sleep’ at 11pm which means I really toss and turn ALL NIGHT with no real quality sleep. The restlessness is unbearable. I wake up at 8 or so in the morning but I am so drugged I can’t get out of bed so I lay there until 10 or 11 tossing and turning. Finally…I drag my drugged body out of bed but I can’t even comb my hair because I am so drugged. I spend from 11am to 4 pm restless and tired and just like a restless zombie until finally at about 4pm I start to feel alert and awake. I need to feel like I do right now at 8am. Bright eyed and bushy tailed but my freaking antipsychotic prevents it. And possibly my mood stabilizer. I think my Trileptal also drugs me up. I am going to take just one night off my anti-psychotic. Just one. Not enough to cause a massive drop in blood levels. I’ll be back on tomorrow. But I want to sleep one night without tossing and turning all night. I never actually freaking SLEEP despite how long I stay in bed. I need to cut back on my Latuda and see if that helps. I know I need my AP but I need to cut back. How am I EVER going to make it through college like this? BTW: I take 40mg Latuda and 600 mg Trileptal every night.
That sounds awful. How long have you been on those 2 meds? Have you discussed it with your doctor? What did they say?
I mentioned the fact that I can’t sleep to my pdoc. He told me I need to exercise so I can get more tired. This is way past that. This is major drug side effects. No amount of going to the gym is going to fix this. I need to cut back on my antipsychotic or switch or something.