Wednesday, October 5, 2011

10 mg Celexa
6mg Trazodone
2 benadryl

I haven’t written in a while. Things were going well all the way through 50mg of trazodone. When I switched to 25mg I started having more problems falling and staying asleep. Then I went down to 12.5mg and then I started cutting those in half last night. I haven’t been sleeping well for most of the nights now. If I do fall asleep I wake up fairly soon and then have trouble falling back asleep as I feel very awake. I have been sleeping on the couch almost exclusively for several weeks as when I try to sleep in the bed and can’t it makes it harder for me to get to sleep at all after I move out to the couch. Last night I fell asleep around 10:45pm watching tv. Woke up at 11:30pm and was awake until at least 2:00am. I had finally resigned myself to being awake and put my contacts back in and started reading the news on my phone when I fell back asleep until my alarm went off at 6:00am. I am very tired today and the insomnia is beginning to wear me down. I am going to take 15mg of Celexa tonight and no trazodone. It is hard for me not to view this as a big defeat, as it took me months to get used to taking only 10mg, but at least if I can get off the trazodone I will only be on one medication. I don’t feel depressed in general but on the days when I haven’t gotten enough sleep the night before my mood is definitely a lot worse. Since this is happening more often than not now, my mood is suffering a lot. I don’t have a lot of energy to do the things I want to do and that upsets me.  

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