Posted by Colleen D. on May 21, 2006, at 21:37:24
Whenever I take Klonopin during the day, I end up falling asleep sitting up where ever I am. The highest dosage I've taken during the day is .5mg. I think this is really strange because I have to take SOMETHING for sleep every night and my choice med right now is doxepin 25 to 50mg. I've been taking it for over two years.
I'm seriously thinking I may have a sleep disorder of some sort. The doxepin works very well, but when I'm anxious about someting that happened during the day (especially at work) and thinking about the upcoming day when I go to bed, I can take 50mg of doxepin and 1mg of Klonopin and then I toss and turn all night long.
What is up with me? I also take 20mg Lexapro at night. Maybe I should take the Lexapro in the morning? Or maybe I should ask for something else to replace the doxepin that would really "knock me out" and stop the ruminations?
I fell asleep twice today. Once in the early afternoon and once again after supper. I took .5mg of Klonopin about noon because I was hosting a social event (these always make me anxious to some extent, but today it was my daughter's 4th birthday party.) As soon as the crowd was gone...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I feel exhausted most of the time and I don't know what to do. By the end of the work week, I want crawl into bed as soon as I get home on Thursday and sleep through the weekend, which is impossible because I'm a single mom with 3 children.
Does anyone have suggestions or comments? I have toyed around with the idea of quitting a good paying job that I love, because I can't seem to get it together enough to be good and alert through a 24-hour work week. I can't imagine going up to 30 or 40 hours per week which is what my company wants me do do in the fall.
And to top this all off, I'm making too much money to still get any assistance. I've lost my food and rent assistance, and the next thing to come under the axe will be by child care assistance, and then I literally won't be able to afford to go to work.
Life stinks when you have to struggle so much! Effexor gave me so much energy for two years. I miss that feeling soooo much!
Thanks in advance for anything you might have to offer.
Colleen
MDD, OCD, GAD and SP
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