Posted by utopizen on November 15, 2002, at 10:57:54
In reply to Re: Sleeping pill?, posted by JonW on November 15, 2002, at 10:37:45
I actually asked my p-doc about Provigil and ADD, saying I knew the clinical trials found it ineffective but I was willing to give it a shot. Oddly, he's actually more comfortable with Adderall of all things. Must be pretty confident in my non-abuse.
Anyway, I would need a sleeping pill anyway, because my circadian rythms don't get me into sleeping until 1 or later anyway, and it's also nice because I'm a light sleeper and my roommate sometimes has the TV on in the common room of my dorm (which is a loft setup without a door).
I took a Klonopin yesterday for a nap and felt so refreshed four hours after going to sleep it was remarkable. I read someone on the net saying Klonopin disrupts 5th wave sleep, which is the part that refreshes you into feeling rested. Well, maybe it doesn't for me, because I felt like a million dollars after that nap.
My friend's father is a p-doc, and gives her Klonopin for anxiety and sleeping. She's told to take one .5 for anxiety and 2 .5 for when she wants to use it to sleep. I wish my doctor was that cool. Honestly, i'm well aware of Klonopin's habituation potential, but my p-doc just has to one accept that I am not responding to Effexor or anything else he can give me.
And by the way, if anyone can give me some insight over my tic issue and how it might relate to anxiety, please let me know. Dr. Sachs (s/p) of Awakenings/L-Dopa fame wrote a book on Dilantin called Nerves in Collission. His theory is that many people have benign or subtle forms of seizures that result from an electrical regulation flaw, correctly with Dilantin.
Since I sometimes get a shoulder-shrugging tic now and then, I wonder about this. My p-doc didn't know what to make of it, and said if it wasn't bothering me there's nothing to worry about, and if it was more severe, he'd just have to refer me to a neurologist. I'm not bothered by it, but I'm starting to see how it can connect to other issues, like anxiety, restlessness, fatigue, and cold hands and feet. In fact what really confirmed my theory is reading a Dilantin clinical abstracts collection that mentioned Dilantin normalizing patients who had cold or hot hands and feet-- my mom and I both have cold hands and feet, it's a circulation thing. I even have crow's feet on my ankle now, and I'm just 19. My dermatologist said it was a sign of aging.
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