INSOMNIA SUCKS!

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Registered: 04-16-2003
INSOMNIA SUCKS!
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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 6:22am
Hey, gang. Well, I've pretty much been up all night! I can't get any solid sleep! This happened last night, too, but I was able to get a little more sleep than I did tonight. The main thing that's been bugging me is nausea. I've taken gravol all night, and that usually has a drowsy effect on people. Well, I'm drowsy, alright, I want to sleep sooooooo bad, but when I sleep I dream too much, and I wake up all agitated and antsy in the bed. I can't lie still, it's like I want to jump right out of my skin! I had the same kind of feeling over 2 months ago when I stopped taking Celexa, pretty much cold turkey. But my withdrawal symptoms went away after about 2 weeks, so I doubt this has anything to do with that. It's possible, I suppose, but I just think there is something more than that. I don't know where the nausea is coming from. And the weird part is, I still have an appetite. If anything, I almost have more of an appetite, and even though I don't usually have cravings for food I'm not supposed to have on Atkins, I have a hard time resisting it. There are butter tarts in the fridge that have been driving me bonkers, I almost had one the other night, but I somehow talked myself out of it.

Anyway, I'm up now, and having something to eat and a cup of tea, and then I'll try again to sleep. This is so frustrating! My body wants to sleep SOOOOO bad! ~Sabrina
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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 7:14am

(((((Sabrina))))), I so totally know what you're saying.

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Registered: 05-17-2004
Wed, 10-13-2004 - 8:26am

I'm sorry you girls are having sleeping trouble.

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Wed, 10-13-2004 - 9:23am
Ok ok...I will ask it since everyone is thinking it anyhow...

Could you be pregnant? Sounds like you have some symptoms that I had...when I laid down or just sat still, I felt sick. I was very sleepy during the day and not sleepy at all when it was bedtime. Nausea, sleeplessness while feeling exhausted, cravings for things you dont normally have and a larger appetite....it all adds up to me!

So maybe check into that Sabrina... :) I hope you get to feeling better regardless!

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Registered: 04-16-2003
Wed, 10-13-2004 - 3:35pm
Hi, Lady. About my medication, I'm not taking the Celexa anymore. I don't have a family doctor, and I took myself off the medication. I think that the insomnia could have been a withdrawal symptom, but I find it hard to believe because of the fact that I've been off it for over 2 months. And it doesn't explain the nausea, because I never had that as a withdrawal symptom before. I'm doing well off the medication, and I don't plan to go back on it! I wonder if maybe my hormones are out of whack or something, I don't know!

I did manage to get about 4 hours of sleep from 7 until 11, but even that sleep was filled with really strange dreams! One dream was about having to protect the residents in the nursing home I work in from these rabid gerbils that were infesting the place...I had to shoot them with guns!! It was gross, and I don't know where that dream came from!! I hope I can sleep well tonight, I have to work tomorrow.

Thanks for your reply, it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one who suffers from occasional insomnia! ~Sabrina
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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 4:41pm
Well, Shawna, I won't say it hasn't crossed my mind, but I am on the pill. I know, I know, everyone tells me you can still get pregnant on the pill...but I've been on it for probably about half a year and I haven't had any problems yet. Plus, I should have been ovulating on the weekend, but you're not supposed to ovulate on the pill, and even though Andre and I did have sex on the weekend, I doubt that symptoms of pregnancy would show up this early...could they?

The nausea isn't so bad today, I'm just really tired from the restless sleep I got last night. Hopefully tonight will be better! ~Sabrina
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Thu, 10-14-2004 - 10:33am
Well, i got a good 12 hours of sleep last night. I was relieved! I was planning to watch Seinfeld at 10, and I was lying on the couch, and the next thing I knew, the TV and lights were off! Andre must have seen that I was asleep and just let me be, since he knows I haven't been getting good sleep lately. Then I went to bed, and got up a few times to go to the bathroom, but I was able to fall asleep again right after.

About the whole pregnancy thing... I'm due for my period in a week and a half, and if I don't get it, THEN I'll start to look into it. But until then, I think I'll just put it on the back burner. I think the chances are slim, anyway.

I talked to Andre about this last night, and initially he was a little freaked, but then he got this smile on his face...like he'd be happy! And I was talking to my friend on the phone, asking her opinion, and I was saying "I think Andre would be..." and I paused for the right word, and he was standing right there and said, without pause, "happy"! This is definately not the right time for a baby in our lives, since Andre is in school, and I'm just beginning my career, but if it were to happen, it's nice to know that we could make it work! ~Sabrina