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Re: Serzone for mood disorder » Mr Cushing

Posted by BeardedLady on December 3, 2002, at 6:11:02

In reply to Re: Serzone for mood disorder, posted by Mr Cushing on December 2, 2002, at 20:00:23

You have been through hell! I'm glad you toughed it out. It's amazing how you can be so compassionate. Some people will say, "Headache? Honey, I've had a brain tumor. You don't know what a headache is!"

> Maybe you should make sure that it's not just a night time thing.

Oh, it's definitely partly worry. I am a worrier, and it got worse after my daughter was born.

That's what the Serzone is for. It's similar to Effexor in that it treats anxiety (though it says it's for depression, my doc says it's the best anxiety med with the fewest side effects). Really, I don't have any except dry eyes when I up my dose. But I take it at night because it makes me drowsy, and that made more sense than taking it in the morning! So it's my Effexor, so to speak, and I would consider changing it after my 2nd opinion. (By the way, my therapist thinks it's mostly sleep related, too, and that most of my worry is about my sleep!)

I also tend to suffer from stress illnesses that didn't bother me when I smoked. Each time I quit smoking, I got something else. Each time I started back up again, all those things went away. I keep thinking I should start smoking again, as I quit when I learned I was pregnant. I think insomnia waited until I was finished nursing to hit me as the smoke-free stress illness.

>Or, if this is even possible (my PDoc says that one exists anyways), Try to get into a Sleep Clinic to see what they think.

Mine just recommended me for a sleep clinic. I will be seeing the top sleep doc at Hopkins some time in January.

> Maybe you're just missing a piece of the puzzle and it has more to do with not being able to sleep?

Yeah, we're working on that.

> wondering, Hell, how do the rest of the world sleep so soundly and hating them all for it lol...

No kidding! I sometimes look at my husband in disgust at 3:00 a.m.--just because he's doing what everyone else in this part of the world is doing.

I spoke with pdoc last night and upped my Serzone. I slept about 8.5 hours, with wakeups every hour after 2:30, but I fell back to sleep, and that's the key. (Sometimes I think my body wakes up just to make sure it really was sleeping.)

Anyway, thanks so much for all your help. You're a gem.

beardy


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