Have you ever tried melatonin? It's the naturally occurring chemical in your body that triggers you to get tired and fall asleep. I have been taking 5mg nightly and it seems to work very well for me-no small feat since many meds that should knock me out don't make me sleepy at all...even the 20mg dose of baclofen I need to conquer spasms/spasticity that seem to plague me throughout each "episode" (no MS Dx yet) I have had so far.
Worth checking into to see if it's OK with your other meds...BTW, it's safe enough that it was recommended for my 10 year old son by a pediatric sleep center/pulmonology P.A. as a routine treatment for pediatric sleep problems. Works great for him, too!
Another up side-I don't have any "hangover" effect the next day.
Good Luck!!
Jen
Thanks guys. I did manage to get some sleep maybe. All the rest of the night I would doze off for maybe 45 minutes to an hour at a time. It was like as soon as I would fall asleep my mind would wake me back up in order to check the clock by my bad.
Dennis
I do the same, i am just more comfortable going in later..for many reasons.
I cannot sleep if I need to get up early, i worry about not getting any sleep so then I don't get any.
I cannot just get up and run out of the house either. I need to do all my stuff and get myself together.
this may be OT but its on my mind...
..I take trazodone for sleep... if I take it at 10:00 and don't go to sleep until 1:00 and wake up at 6:00..anyway, i have already wasted 3 hrs of the trazodone being awake..I get about 6 hrs on 2 trazodone. If I wake up at 4:00....well, you get the general idea, I am totally confused now.
hhugs, meg
I know exactly how you feel... it happens to me all the time too, if I have to get up early I cannot sleep the night before. I usually plan things for noon or after, but I know sometimes you just can't make it happen and you have these appt that are so early.
hope it goes well and you have had some sleep...
take care
wobbly
My solution is a compromise...I "tell" myself that we are taking a 'cat-nap" and it will only last 90 minutes. The is the average sleep cycle which does involve some , all-important REM sleep.
I can function on a GOOD cat-nap if it does include a full sleep cycle which the mind needs to 'RE-SET ITSELF'.
Perhaps one or two quality cat naps will get you through the day. It has worked for me in the past...
Good luck,
ren