Just a note. It has been 5 nights of 75mg trazodone. I have not had any problems sleeping. Yay J

It’s Friday. Last night I went down to 75mg of Trazodone. Things went well at 100 so here’s hoping they go well at 75. I slept fine last night.

Other observations…

I have been starving all week. I had my period this week. I don’t know if that anything to do with it, but I’ve developed a habit of having a coke zero and a bag of microwave popcorn everyday at work. Even with that, many days this week I have been starving on top of that, eating an apple and a zone bar too, which all amounts to twice as many calories as I was eating at work a few weeks ago. I think it might be because of my period, because Monday night I worked out when I was really hungry and therefore was much hungrier afterwards, and also because I think Coke Zero makes me hungry. I will be giving up the coke and popcorn habit next week, but I will need to bring in some sort of snack to replace it because there aren’t very many days when I’m not still starving after only eating 700-900 calories at work all day.

Other than being extremely hungry this week, I have still been in a very good mood in general.

I have been feeling less rested this week than the past few weeks, although I have still be sleeping well. I think it’s because I stayed up too late on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, but also may because I added that caffeine back into my daily routine. For a few weeks there I was feeling really rested after only 7-7.5 hours of sleep and waking up before my alarm everyday. Not so this week. Jesse is convinced that I have sleep apnea because of my breathing at night. Who knows…

Normally Sunday I would be starting a new pack of bc pills but I am going off the pill. I wonder if I will notice any changes because of that.

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.