Posted by headachequeen on June 9, 2005, at 22:14:58
In reply to Re: New to Topomax, posted by paintmom on June 3, 2005, at 14:36:27
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> I've always had sleep problems...I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome...Apnea.....Insomnia....etc.....I have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep...and because of the apnea....my quality of sleep is poor. But since I've raised the topamax above 50mg....my sleep has been horrible!!!!!! I cant fall asleep and when I finally do...I wake up over and over again.
Have you asked your primary care physician to give you something that will help you 'turn off your brain' at nights? I have problems sleeping, problems that date back to long before the Topomax came into my life...
and I checked, there is nothing on the bottle that mentions drowsiness....
When I go to bed, I read for a little while, right now I am reading about reiki as I am taking courses in it, or about the Ottoman empire, or books on training... nothing stimulating. After about three pages I usually find my eyes telling me that they are not able to process the symbols on the page, time to sleep...
but the slightest sound or movement and I am awake... and do not go back to sleep easily..
At the sleep lab they told me that I wakened as soon as I reached a deep sleep... trust me to get even that backwards!!!
I have a prescription for a very mild sleeping medication that simply tells my brain to stop thinking and it helps me sleep for a few hours ...
traditionally my best sleeping time has always been between five and eleven in the morning...
of course employers expect one to be at work in the morning and don't care that the only time I sleep soundly without wakening is the time they expect some sort of work for pay...
being a free lancer has helped and being able to set my own hours for training and such helps too...
but it would be nice to be able to go to bed and go to sleep and stay asleep until the alarm wakens one...
I understand that there are people who do that <sigh>
kat
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