Comments on Profile Post by ErikaS

  1. DeanD
    DeanD
    Sorry to hear you're going through this as well.
    Haven't slept in 3 days, or a full night sleep in 3 weeks. Can't take meds as one is giving me eye problems and don't know which.
    Sadly, I know how you feel :(
    Are you taking any sleep meds?
    How is the neuromodulation going?
    Jan 17, 2023
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  2. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @DeanD I just read your latest update. My heart breaks for you and all of us who try so hard to adapt and “do the right things” to just get screwed some how. It’s so hard to say how things are going when I go through an insomnia slump. It happens around my cycle, but before that I was getting 3-4 decent nights of sleep in a row.
    Jan 17, 2023
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  3. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @DeanD i take 7.5mg Remeron for sleep along with melatonin and that does help and do the trick when I’m not in my monthly cycle. I also still take .25mg Ativan in evening which allows me to calm down, but I love/hate it as it’s a benzo.
    What meds have you tried?
    Jan 17, 2023
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  4. Strawberryblonde
    Strawberryblonde
    Sorry to hear that @ErikaS this condition tests strengths you didn't know you had. Hope much sleep are you getting?
    Jan 17, 2023
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  5. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @Strawberryblonde i had a 3-4 night span of very little sleep, it started to turn around the past two nights but the lack of sleep always tends to hit me a couple days after and really sends my anxiety, panic, and depression.
    Jan 17, 2023
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  6. Sammy0225
    Sammy0225
    Hang in there Erika you’ve been in my thoughts and prayers I know you can and will get through this! Keep fighting things will get better ❤️‍
    Jan 17, 2023
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  7. Strawberryblonde
    Strawberryblonde
    Hormones can play havoc on a sleep cycle ☹️ you will get back to were you were sleep wise when the anxiety depression and panic eases off. You've had a good time sleep wise before and you will get there again soon :D
    Jan 17, 2023
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  8. DeanD
    DeanD
    @ErikaS - I have been taking 15mg Martazapine (Remeron) and 10mg Propranolol. These were doing the trick until a worsening. GP swapped me to Zapiclone. First night on them I got 10 hours, but then they stopped working. Now trying to work out what I can take other than magnesium supplement.
    Really hope you manage to get a good night sleep tonight!
    Jan 17, 2023
  9. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    Thank you @Sammy0225. I think one of the most maddening, scariest things with this is how no one around you can understand, and they feel helpless and you see how helpless they feel and it’s just scary because no one or no turn makes you truly feel that “things will be okay” feeling. At least I have not gotten there yet.
    Jan 17, 2023
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  10. NYCGuy
    NYCGuy
    Is so hard, habituation may start sitting with you in 6 months to 12 months, someday you will see that you don't even listen it to it during the day but at night there is no way to not hear it, is awful as always.
    Jan 17, 2023
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  11. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @Strawberryblonde thanks girly ❤️ As if this isn’t hard enough, we have to deal with the normal cycle stuff that can exacerbate things. Brighter days ahead
    Jan 17, 2023
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  12. ErikaS
    ErikaS
    @DeanD Ugh I’m sorry things stopped working. Have you tried melatonin + benedryl + magnesium ? That could help
    Jan 17, 2023