well i had a sleeping disorder in 2003 but
it wasnt painfully horrible, they put me
on zyprexa for sleep (antipsychotic with
side effect of sleep) i guess i slept for
4 years while on it, but i finally got my
head str8 and decided to get off of it,
because of all the side effects...i got
taken off it and for 2 weeks i got
horrible sleep and stopped eating
completely, i got so nuts with the lack of
sleep and i lost 22 lbs from not eating
that i went to the ER, they had a hard
time believing that it was because of
getting off zyprexa that i wasnt sleeping
or eating, and blamed it on a mental
illness, i almost punched the doctor in
the mouth, anyway, they gave me some
klonopin for sleep and i went home, i took
it and i went to sleep for one night but
the next night took it and didnt sleep
again, i only did all this cause i couldnt
see my real doctor, so then i finally got
to see my real doctor and she gave me some
amitryptilene for sleep....when i took it
it made me extremely depressed but i did
sleep and the next day i just felt the
urge to eat so ive been eating normally
pretty much again, but then the next night
once again i couldnt sleep..so it seems
like the pills they give me only work for
one night and not again....if not sleeping
isnt so bad its the way i feel when im not
asleep, i feel like im so wide awake and
conscious and aware of everything around
me that every single SECOND i want to
sleep and i can not feel my body
attempting to fall asleep at all, like its
just lost the ability to sleep
altogether...i took the amytryptiline
again tonite and dont feel like ill sleep
at all, and if i keep feeling this way im
gona go back to the ER, i do NOT want to
take zyprexa again because it did not make
me feel good all it was good for was
killing my emotions and making me sleep
way too many hours a day, i really would
like to be medless like i have been all my
life, and hate to turn to meds to fix my
problems, but its better then going insane
from lack of sleep, so hopefully the meds
are only temporary, i got off zyprexa on
april 6th...i also fear that if i keep
trying new sleep meds my body will never
get the natural ability to sleep
again....nothing i do works for sleep,
tea, exercise, breathing exercises,
NOTHING, it has no natural ability to
sleep no matter what i do, like it forgot
how to sleep, i have tried almost
everything that i know of...lying in bed
for 7 hours and falling asleep for maybe 2
minutes, i mean thats a start i guess, but
lying in bed awake for that long is sooooo
boring, that drives me nuts as it
is...well dont know if i have a real
question just wanted to share what ive
been going thru with some terrible
insomnia
