Dear Sleep Blog.

We got the new bed on Monday. I slept so-so on Monday night, but I think that was because I slept in too late on Monday morning (I had the day off). I had been tired from staying up past 1:00am for several nights before that, so I slept late. Then I worked out hard around 4:00pm - 5:00pm and had kind of a hard time winding down, plus I was a little anxious about going back to work after vacation. I did go to bed in the bed though. I felt like I wasn't sleeping, like I was still just thinking and then I got kind of startled and went looking for Jesse to tell him I wasn't sleeping. I thought he was in the living room but turns out he had already come to bed. I think that might've been what startled me but I didn't know it. I told him I wasn't sleeping but he said that was bullshit because I had been snoring. Either way I didn't feel like I had been sleeping. I did fall into a deeper sleep later but of course I was tired when I woke up. Also because I didn't even try to go to bed until after I should have considering I had to get up at 5:20am. But, Tuesday night I went to bed and fell asleep reading. I even woke up to pee and saw that my reading stuff was strewn all over the bed and the lamp was still on but I didn't even care, I just laid down and went right back to sleep. I ahd gone to bed about 9pm then. Last night (Wednesday) I went to bed to read around 8:30, read for a while, and then decided to go to sleep. I fell asleep right away and slept like a baby all night. I even woke up a while before my alarm went off and felt rested. That hasn't happened for a long time. When I slept on the couch I generally never work up feeling rested before the alarm. Oh and since I've gone back in the bedroom I have unplugged the clock and I never check the time when I wake up. I just try to go back to sleep. I could check on my phone or the clock in the bathroom but I don't. I must say, I absolutely love the new mattress. It is snuggly yet firm and my back doesn't hurt at all and I can even sleep on my side without it hurting. I don't have to put pillows under my legs either. It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than that crazy stupid sleep number air bed piece of crap. This new mattress was worth every penny.

So I have still be taking 10mg Celexa, 150mg Trazodone, and 2 benadryl. Tonight I am going to reduce the Celexa to 5mg. I would prefer to wait a week, but this is a long weekend for me and next week would be the only time I could conceivably miss work without causing a minor disaster in the next month or 2, and I don't want to wait that long to make another change, since once I do get off the Celexa completely I will have to start working my way off the Trazodone. I hopeful that this will go well, as really 10mg isn't even a theraputic does of Celexa. However, last time I reduced by 5mg, which was only 30% at the time, I felt really nauseous for like a day and a half. I dont want to have to miss work if that happens again, and this time a mg reduction will be a 50% reduction. Hopefully it won't make me nauseous or not sleep, but just in case I'm going to try it over the weekend.