Trouble sleeping. Injection in a few days. Coincidence?

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So my shot is due in 3 days now. The past week I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping. I go to bed at 8-8:30pm every night. I’ve been not sleeping at all or sleeping till 11pm and being up all night. I’ve started doing doordash food delivery from midnight to 3am because I figure making money is better than rolling around in bed. Once I’m home around 3:30am I lay around for 30 minutes but can’t sleep. I feed the dogs at 4am and start drinking coffee.

Do you think the shot potentially is wearing off and causing sleep disturbances? I’m thinking about switching from a monthly injection to daily pills just to see if I sleep better.

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Which injection are you on?

And drinking coffee is a bad idea.

Have you tried melatonin?

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I’m on the one month injection.

I have drank coffee every morning I’ve woke up for 13 years. I see no problem with 2 cups of coffee when I wake up.

I take 40-50mg of melatonin and still dont get tired.

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I meant which drug? Maybe you can ask for a prn? Zyprexa should be sedating.

It doesn’t work for me but you can always try?

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I think it could be. It happens to me as well, and my next shot is in 3 days coincidentally!

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When I was on Abilify 400mg that started to run out before I was due my next injection.

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Invega 15152515

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Maybe you can try a different medication like Onlazapine or Quetiapine because those are both sedating.

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Haldol is sedating but that made me feel horrible

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I think I’m going to ask for risperdone. It’s the same thing as invega. Just in pill form.

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How long have you been on invega.if you are new on that just let your body get used to it drug.i have been on this drug over 7 years and i sleep like babies.but first one years i had trouble to sleep.so my advice dont change your meds so quick

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It’s been three years. I think my body is used to it by now.

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Yes 3 years long time.i think its better to stay on invega because its really good drug

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What???! It says don’t take more than 10mg. I stopped melatonin too cause I read taking it too long makes you stop producing natural melatonin

Not sure if that is true, but that dose is way high for sure

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