Posted by BekkaH on April 17, 2003, at 22:12:00
In reply to What the heck is it about 3 am?, posted by Dinah on April 17, 2003, at 3:58:58
In THE CRACKUP, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning." And Napoleon spoke of that rare "two o'clock in the morning courage." For me, however, three o'clock requires more courage than two o'clock.
On the other hand, it could be something as simple as the blood levels of your medication peaking at that time. When I was on Celexa, I used to wake up every single night, exactly four hours after I'd taken it, and I would toss and turn, prowl around the house, eat cookies and drink warm milk, and nothing, absolutely nothing, would put me back to sleep except the passage of time -- exactly two hours. Unless you have the luxury of sleeping several hours later every morning, to make up for the drug's inconvenient pharmacokinetics, this does not work in the real world. That's one of many reasons I stopped taking that medication.
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