It’s been a week since I went down to 100mg of Trazodone. Overall I have been sleeping well and still in a very good mood, but there were two nights I didn’t sleep well. I don’t know that this had much to do with the change in meds though. Sunday night I was really tired after boating and fell asleep on the couch watching TV around 8-9pm. I got up and tried to go bed when Jesse woke me up. I felt really tired so I tried to fall asleep without watching tv, but my mind starting going about whatever random things popped into and I couldn’t fall asleep. Also, I felt really bloated and kept having to get up and pee. Maybe this was the radishes I ate earlier? I have no idea. I turned the tv back on and watched true blood, but still didn’t feel sleepy. I ended up going back out to the couch and watching tv and playing solitaire on my phone for a while and then I fell asleep. Wednesday night I also had trouble sleeping, but that was because I woke up when I started to feel extremely nauseous in my sleep. The sudden wave of nausea is what woke me up. I had trouble falling back to sleep after that because feeling nauseous all of the sudden like that made me feel anxious, plus I felt like I couldn’t turn on the tv in the middle of the night since it would wake Jesse. I played on my phone a little (this iphone has been really useful!) but still didn’t get sleepy. I laid there for about an hour and a half and then went out to the couch, watched some true blood and played on my phone, and fell back to sleep around 4:30am. Needless to say, getting up at 6am sucked and I was very tired and cranky all day on Thursday. I went to bed about 8:15pm, slept til about 10:30pm, got up to take out my contacts and pee and went right back to sleep. I got up once more to pee during the night. Woke up at 5am feeling totally rested. Went back to sleep til my alarm went off at 6:05am and then hit snooze once.

I think those two nights were kind of due to strange circumstances, but all the same I have been making an effort not to fall asleep on the couch before going to bed. Hopefully it will continue to go well. It seems to be going well in general. On another note, I have lost 5.2 pounds since 6/20/11, which I think is pretty darn good considering I have had many cheat days and haven’t been exercising at all. I plan to work some exercise back into my daily routine soon.

It's sunday. on Thursday night I went down to 100mg of trazodone. Everything is going well so far. I have noticed that since I went down from 150mg of trazodone that I have had a lot more energy and feel less drowsy during the day. Generally I wake up feeling rested after 7 - 7.5 hours of sleep. On the weekends I go back to sleep for 2-3 more though :-)  Still falling asleep watching true blood and with my contacts in.

Tonight will be one week since I went down to 125mg of Trazodone. I have generally slept well every night and have been waking up after 7 hours or so feeling rested. Of course I always lay in bed until about 5 minutes past the time I have to get up anyway. I should mention that I have been falling asleep watching True Blood in the bedroom and that I still leave my contacts in. Last night Jesse was making a bunch of noise that woke me up and I had a little trouble falling back to sleep because he came to bed then and started snoring, but I got up and took 2 more Benadryl and was able to fall asleep.

night # 2 at 125mg of trazodone went well :-) slept well, fell asleep right away both initially and after getting up to pee. woke up after about 7.5 hours but went back to sleep for 3 more :-)

Well I have been sleeping well for a few weeks now, so I decided to start stepping down on the trazodone. Last night I took 125mg instead of 150 and I slept fine. Hopefully it stays that way. Lately I have been waking up about ½ hour or 45 minutes before it’s time to get up and feeling pretty rested. Of course I don’t actually get up until the alarm goes off and then some, but it is nice to feel rested. It’s usually after about 7 – 7.5 hours of sleep. Still taking 10mg Celexa and 2 benadryl. My mood has been good.

Sleep is still going well :-) Fall asleep easily, go back to sleep easily after getting up to pee. Sleep as long as I want. Feel rested. Mood has been good. Have not made any changes to meds since last time I wrote. I should mention that today has been two weeks since I gave up caffeine. I had really bad headaches for a couple of days but since then I've been fine. I did cheat one day and had 2 cans of coke zero. I was starving and falling asleep at work. I could really feel the caffeine hit me after that. Before, when I was drinking about a million gallons a day, I never noticed the caffeine at all. That was my only cheat. I also gave up other diet pop, at least on a regular basis. I have had some the last few days that we've been working on the roof and when we went to someone's house for dinner, but in general I am not buying or drinking it. I'm trying to stick with water. Also, I lost 3.2 pounds in the first 12 days of my diet! I'm pretty sure I gained some back in the last two days because working on the roof in the hot sun and having a house full of goodies to feed the people helping with it led me to overeat and eat a lot of junk food. I was going to restart my diet today but I am so tired and sore that I just don't care. I want a steak. I will definitely be back on the diet as of Wednesday when I go back to work. Overall, things are going well.