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Oversleeping

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beckylili
beckylili

Since upping to 30mg just under 2 weeks ago have never slept so much. Was fine at the weekend and not gone into work today as had repeated nightmares and now slept all day. Is the normal and will it ease? Not sure if body relaxing.

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  • pat97934
    pat97934 beckylili

    Posted

    Hi Becky sorry you are so tired. I do feel like that a lot of the time. Now on hols with drunks etc even more difficult just go to bed early and get as much rest as possible . When your tired catch a now of you can, hard if working I am retired so no problems. Good luck .pat
  • sun47
    sun47 beckylili

    Posted

    hi becky it's such a rollercoaster isn't it - it's hard to give any definite answers (i've noticed even the doctors often just give a best guess!)

    perhaps if you can give it a couple more weeks, maybe you will adjust and be ok,  or if not, it could mean that you are taking too much which is overstimulating you - perhaps you are unsuited to this med once you go above a certain dose  (for example, with myself i found that with the med sertraline, if i went to 100mg it affected my sleep too much, but at doses below 100mg it didnt work effectively for me, so i had to give up on sertraline (i gave it a good 6 months though, which wasn't easy but anyway..)

    so now im on 20mg citalopram, few weeks in, hoping it works (im at the horrendous anxiety in the morning stage!)  rolleyes

    • beckylili
      beckylili sun47

      Posted

      It is so hard to know as I was doing better last week and not sure if beta blockers make it better or worse. I hope you feel better soon smile
    • sun47
      sun47 beckylili

      Posted

      have you tried something like clonazepam for the anxiety, perhaps if you dont get on well with the beta blockers
    • sun47
      sun47 beckylili

      Posted

      yes, i believe they are all similar,  the meds like:  diazepam, clonazepam, lorazepam, etc
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