I’ve been noticing a pattern. I start off the day with energy and focus to meet the day, but by 6pm the depression settles back in and it feels like the weight of the world is on my shoulders. Not sure if I’m in a hypomanic state or not, I have been hearing buzzing and phones ringing in my head, but I might also be getting sick as there is a bug going around. Its like I’m sundowning. It’s not good because I’m an evening student and I have to interact in groups, clinical, with patients and instructors.
What time of the day are your symptoms the worst? Any other sundowners?
I think my meds from the night before have worn off. Thats why my symptoms return so early in the PM. I’ll have to look up the half life or duration of the meds.
Probably could ask your pdoc if ok to take around lunch time. Would be a pain to carry around all the time. But knew many that had to do it that way. Just set an alarm and keep some sort of pill box with you. You ladies do also have the advantage of handbags etc.
Long acting injectables are a great alternative more stable release no ups or downs but they can get quite expensive sometimes. I think the Risperdal Consta is the cheapest.
Something within me has been changing. The patterns that I was getting used to have been shifting around.
Break through symptoms used to hit first thing in the morning. I would be met with some confusing visuals and that is when my voices were still out and playing. Then as the day went on and my brain woke up more… it would go away. (plus morning meds helped.)
Now the flat disconnect is with me when I wake up and the voices and paranoia spikes and can’t keep a sentence straight will hit at night.
Some mornings I’ve been waking up euphoric. Other mornings, I don’t want to even face… my body is too heavy to move. I see my doc this Thursday.
used to be mornings…but now…anytime , no reasoning to it…tiredness brings on symptoms, i am finding.
take care
dark sith starts eating his and sipping on his coffee and pours a little cup for darth bug .
Mornings are definatly worse for me. Getting out of bed in the morning is somthing I dont want to do, all I want to do is sleep. In the evening is when I seem to be best.
I am not sure. Early evening around 5pm or so is usually awful for me. I get tired during the day at times; but, have this problem of waking up about midnight when I should be working on sleeping. I am comforted in the night; because the bright light of the sun does not “hurt” my eyes. This is weird as my rising sign is Leo; the Sun Sign. I have Venus in the sixth house which is supposed to cause me to enjoy my house! Somehow, I guess I have not yet received the cosmic message! Here I am at 1:04 am EST on the internet when I really should be in bed at least attempting sleep.
Tomorrow, (or rather today-this afternoon) I see both my therapist and my psychiatrist to finally get my meds straight. Maybe then, I will start sleeping a “:little better” My problem with meds. I can no longer swallow the pills anymore. I gag and spit them out; then cough and sometimes “throw up.” Yesterday evening, I had a headache and tried to take Tylenol; gagged and spit them it out. I finally got them down; but, it was pure torture. I do not understand this as I have been taking pills since I was a teenager.
Undoubtedly night. I used to dread night time. Things are a lot better now, but it’s still not perfect. Most of my triggers occur at night too, examples being silence, being alone, darkness, etc.
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