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?

[shinningmom]

Sleep is wierd for me also but my body will be completely awake and my mind will be soooo tired.  I am on day 7 and sleep has not got much better for me  in the past week but I feel it will get better.

[micheleTX]

I felt sluggish too for a really long time.  I wasnt on tramadol this last time though, it just took a long time to get that energy naturally back.  Try not to sweat it, I know its easy for me to say, I go to sleep at 9 30 or 10 and wake at 5, and am good with that.  Vicki is right (yet again-shes is so knowlegable, love u vick ;) as we age, we require less sleep.  Our bodies just don't need as much as when we were even in our 30's....
And Gnarly is also right (he is alot too ;), if you take a hot bath for about 20 minutes before you go to bed, it relaxes every muscle and eases your mind too.  You will sleep better, I'll bet all my money on that!  Buy you some Calgon or something fragrant to put in there, thats a plus.  You know, they have all that aromatherapy stuff.   Matter of fact, there is a line of product called "Aromatherapy" and they have a bath wash that has lavender or something in it that is specifically for relaxation and sleep.  It works!  Ive bought it many times, alas, I only have a shower now.  I miss my Bathtub!!! :(    But try that or something similar.
Im hoping you get a good good nights sleep soon my friend :)

[avisg]

Tram send me a PM tell me what kind of sugery you just had ? if it what i think then I had the same problem ....

[LeaAnn807]

Hey thanks everybody!  I'm sure it's probably being caused by a number of things.  My main thing is that I don't feel like I require as much sleep as most people.  If I get 5 or 6 hours, I'm good!!  If I slept 8 hours (OR till Noon again, Vicki!!!) I would be MISERABLE!  I would hurt from head to toe.  I take the Prozac in the a.m. already.  I would not DARE try to take it at night.  Everything messes me up if I take it at night!! (I mean, it keeps me awake!)

I can get back to sleep...kinda.  But not for about 2 hours!  About the time everyone else in the house is about ready to get up I get sleepy....sometimes.  But sometimes I just wake at 3 and stay awake!  I just hope that taking the clonidine isn't "waking" me up after a few hours.  But hey, at least I am getting that much sleep!  Better than nothing and that's what I'd be getting if I didn't take it.  Hubby is ready for me to stop taking it, but I said no way!  

Here's the other weird thing.  It's just after noon here, and I feel soooooo sluggish.  Almost a sleepy feeling, but not.....make sense?  Just like I'm worn completely out!  I probably couldn't go to sleep if I tried, but I fight it and do not nap cause I would NEVER sleep at night if I took a nap!  It has happened for the last 4 days or so.  I just yawn and feel so sleepy all day.  I even drank a Red Bull yesterday afternoon!!!!

Suggestions??  I am taking every vitamin and amino known to man I think!!!

[vicki595]

Hey~  It's most likely a combination of everything...Don't forget the Prozac has to enter into the mix.  A lot of folks wake up in the night...at least you can get back to sleep!

But,hey,I don't have the answer. I just think we change all the time as we get older.
Remember when we could sleep til noon???  Seems like a million years ago!
So, do you feel like you've gotten enough sleep?  Take the Prozac in the morning,if you're not already.
As for me,I get about 6 hrs a night. I'm usually up at 5am but I like the early am.
Vicki   xo

[gnarly_1]

HI the sleep issue always seam to be the last thing to come back to normal it took months for me to not wake up wide awake at 3.30 in the morning ..my dr prescribed
tamasapan on a short term script....it had the same effect your getting it would put you to sleep but not keep you asleep ....count your blessings at lest your able to get back to sleep once I was up I would lay awake no mater how hard I tried to go back to sleep
also my sleep was very restless I never dreamed on methadone so when I came off it
and started to dream again it was in tec/na/color and really bizarre dreams of people form my past...if it dident interrupt my sleep it would have been entertaining .....ooo who am I kidding I still find it amusing...LOL...just know that things slowly get better with time ...I now get a solid 6 hr a night on a good night 7 hrs...and im 171 days clean but it took a good 90+ days to get to where im at....so hang in there use what your dr says to and try a good long hot bath right b/4 you try and go to sleep ...I found that that worked better then the pills to relax me and give me a good nights sleep ...ive been following your story since you started your doing great so far try not to get discouraged by the sleep thing....good luck and God bless....Gnarly