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I have not slept for 2 nights, it's a pain in the ass. I feel like I have a current running through me! The thing that really gets me, I will lay there and not be able to sleep and then around 5:30am I fall asleep. Then, the alarm goes off at 6! So I get up, feeling tired and within 10 minutes I'm buzzing like I am plugged into an electrical socket. Maybe I need warm milk and a bedtime story, because I don't see sleep coming anytime soon! Ugh! Maybe it's the moon, maybe it's this or that. That's what I hear. I just want to sleep! I've mopped my kitchen floor 3 times in 2 days!
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Foreal, I just woke up from a blessed nap after not sleeping for 32 hours. Prior to that, I managed 4 hours max a night for about a week. Mine was a med issue -- too much Cymbalta -- which threw me into rapid cycling. As a result, I have a clean, organized, labeled pantry, spotless bathrooms, and baseboards that have been gone over thoroughly. Everything else is a mess. pdoc started me on Depakote today, along with Ativan as needed for agoraphobia/anxiety. Oh, and I slept! I just woke up from a nap that started at 2 p.m. I hope things change for you real soon. Being sleep deprived is a recipe for disaster, my tdoc says.
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Foreal dear, this is mania, or at the least, hypomania
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MHA, I think you're right, but I can't stop it. I go to a new p-doc on Thurs. (This will be my fourth in a year) They all seem to have the personality of a rock! I have productive hypomania as long as I keep moving. The only problem with that is that I beat my body up by overdoing it. I don't do crazy stuff, but I stay out until 2 in the morning (my neice and I have become professional shoppers at the 24 hr Shoprite). I just over do it all the time. I can do a 100 things in one day, like hard physical labor stuff and if my husband does not say "Okay thet's enough" I will keep going until I am physically ill.
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I just want to sleep before I really mess myself up. Any ideas?
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Well, I guess no one has any ideas so I will just go lay in bed now. I just want to sleep beccase I've had it! I guess I will do my usual thing and clean some more and then i wil crash at sometime I just need to slow down my mind and body and try to get things in check!
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Goodbye...
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Sorry hon, just found this again. Was checking messages. If you have any ativan or klonapin or other benzo, that usually helps bring it down. If not, do you have a small dose of seroquel? Or if no prescription prn's take some benadryl 25 - 50 mg. Should bring the hypomania down and makes many people drowsy too. Good luck hon, hope you get some sleep. Love ya, Mary
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foreal, when you go to your pdoc, see if he/she will prescribe you an anti-anxiety medication-xanax works for me. It will quiet your mind and help you to sleep. I am usually prescribed .5 mg and find that I can usually get relief with half of the dose (makes to Rx last longer, too). I find that it's the only thing that will help me sleep if I'm having the "running thoughts" and/or the hypomania. It sucks when you finally crash!!
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I cant sleep for atleast a week now
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