I slept last night

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Registered: 03-25-2003
I slept last night
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Sat, 11-04-2006 - 7:33am

After 2 sleepless nights I laid around yesterday - called in sick to work, and called one of my friends from church and told her I wasn't going on the retreat. Finally around 4 pm I was tired of waiting for my doctor to call (he was in surgery so I knew it would be a while) and I took a Xanax. Just as I was drifting off to sleep he calls.

I told him about my insomnia, so he asked how I felt otherwise. Besides the blurred vision and yawning (which subsided after a couple of days) I felt that the meds were helping the anxiety. So he said he will put me on 10 mg Lexapro and see how that goes. He said the insomnia is a side effect of Effexor, but he can't guarantee it will go away so we'll just try something else.

So I slept until about 6 am this morning. I woke up every couple of hours, but no panic and was able to get back to sleep. I had a wicked headache but I'm sure that's from no sleep and also no caffeine yesterday. (I don't drink much caffeine - just a couple of diet Cokes a day).

Wish me luck!

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Sat, 11-04-2006 - 8:45am

WHOO HOO!


Finally some sleep! That's great news. We have many ppl posting about their success with lexapro. Good luck! (((hugs))) jan


 

 


 



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Registered: 03-22-2003
Sat, 11-04-2006 - 5:55pm
I am so happy to hear that you got some sleep!

Sheri Ann