Issues with weird sleep

[LeaAnn807]

Hey everybody.  I am having some trouble, and I wanted to know if anyone else does or did this?  

I am falling asleep around 11:00 pm after I take clonidine, but I don't take any OTC or prescription sleep meds.  Just the BP pill and some Cal/Mag supplement.  I have been waking up at like 3:20 every morning, wide awake.  Then I fall back to sleep around 5 and sleep till maybe 7.  The strange thing is that it's like my body is DONE sleeping a little after 3. Like I could get up and drive across country and not be the least bit sleepy!  I had to take some tylenol to get back to sleep this morning.  It's just crazy.  After 4 or so hours, could my body be feeling like that's all I need?  Maybe it is just early in all of this to be sleeping all night?  OR....is the clonidine putting me to sleep and then I am waking up, because my sleep cycle is not back to normal and the clonidine wears off??  

I just wonder if the clonidine is just doing more harm than good??  I want to take it so that I can at least fall asleep. I don't feel like I would even be able to do that without it.  Plus, my doc gave me plenty and told me to take it at night. BUT...if it's causing me to wake when it wears off, then I think I should taper off it.  I have another BP med that the same doctor gives me that he says I can change back to when the WD was over.  I wouldn't be doing anything without talking to the doctor, but I DO need SOME sleep, even if it is just 4 hours!!!

What do you guys think?  Anybody do that weird waking up thing, even if not taking meds?

[taperme]

Oh no, I got bleeped too...I wonder if it is my first time. Am I in trouble?

[taperme]

I think it is totally normal for where we both are in this process. I hate to tell you this, but even with ambien I can't sleep through the night yet. I was doing the same 3-5ish thing you are going through but this week it has been a 4:30 to 6ish. And it totally *****. I have to take deep breaths so I don't have a complete anxiety attack when I wake up. I'm not taking the clonodine anymore, but am still taking ambien (a SLEEPING pill!) and don't sleep more than 3 maybe 4 hours at a time. I'm sure your surgery is messing with your energy too. I know you don't want to hear this, but it is just gonna take more time Miss (In)Patience. :)

[dominosarah]

Give yourself some time to get your body back to normal.  If you just had surgery that is probably one of the reasons and if i am thinking the same thing as avis it would make sense.  Patience my dear patience!!!!       sara

[vicki595]

Bleeped? Where?  Oh...did you write the "s" word ?            LOL

Wait til you get deleted for the first time...LOL

[LeaAnn807]

Ha....I just got bleeped for the first time!  I must be starting to fit in!

[LeaAnn807]

I am in NO way ready for a convent!!!  I'm way to mean for that!!! : )

I think you defined part of my problem.  I am a type A, perfectionist.  DUH, right?  Anyway, I want to feel good EVERY day. Good mood every day.  Smiles all around every day.  Etc, etc, etc.  It just doesn't work that way!!!  Sooner I face it....better off I'll be.  Had I never met pills, I would have been satisfied with a good day....whenever!  But I am finding that part of each day is starting to be good now.  Maybe not a whole day, but moments of happiness thrown in, if that makes sense?  Hey....at least all day, everyday no longer *****!