yet another med question wooo
ALRIGHT SO
I went to see the head shrinker about my insomnia. It was the only time I have come out of her office, in the year I have been seeing her, and felt much better. We talked about what could be stressing me out and such, and came to the conclusion that I am not a crazy person (at least, like, in this particular situation, I'm still a crazy person), my Mum is just driving me crazy.
So she prescribed me Ativan.
0.5mg to 1mg before bed, and I'm only to take it for about 2 weeks while I get my sleeping patterns back to normal and allow myself to sort my life out.
Reading through the tags here, it seems most people take this to come down from panic attacks, taking it "as needed." So most of those posts were not helpful to me, since they were complaining about the hypnotic feature of the drug, while I'm looking for that.
Is anyone taking Ativan like me to GET to sleep? Is it helping you?
Tonight will be my third night on it. So far it's been helping me sleep... but it's been waking me up all chipper at 5am. Weird. Does it do this to you?
EDIT:
Right, I should mention I am also on 1000mg Depakote and 100mg Wellbutrin.
I went to see the head shrinker about my insomnia. It was the only time I have come out of her office, in the year I have been seeing her, and felt much better. We talked about what could be stressing me out and such, and came to the conclusion that I am not a crazy person (at least, like, in this particular situation, I'm still a crazy person), my Mum is just driving me crazy.
So she prescribed me Ativan.
0.5mg to 1mg before bed, and I'm only to take it for about 2 weeks while I get my sleeping patterns back to normal and allow myself to sort my life out.
Reading through the tags here, it seems most people take this to come down from panic attacks, taking it "as needed." So most of those posts were not helpful to me, since they were complaining about the hypnotic feature of the drug, while I'm looking for that.
Is anyone taking Ativan like me to GET to sleep? Is it helping you?
Tonight will be my third night on it. So far it's been helping me sleep... but it's been waking me up all chipper at 5am. Weird. Does it do this to you?
EDIT:
Right, I should mention I am also on 1000mg Depakote and 100mg Wellbutrin.