I (am not sure I) wanna be sedated...
Sep. 7th, 2012 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usernamenumberSo ok. At this point all of y'all probably know that I have been frenemies with sleep pretty much my whole life. As I've mentioned before, In the last year or so I've started working with doctors to try and actually deal with this stuff, with... limited success.
This week it's been worse than ever, and I'm not sure why. Ok yeah I barely slept while I was at DragonCon, and I know one doesn't recover from that overnight, but a week? Every morning this week I've woken up feeling like I barely slept at all. M says that I've been tossing and turning and twitching even more than usual, so I've been getting on my doctor about trying to figure something out.
This morning I got an email from the doc, who is making an effort but I'm pretty sure is stumped as to what the actual problem with me is, suggested two medications for me to try, both with the aim of helping me get into a deep sleep quickly and/or encourage deep breathing while asleep, and to increase my tolerance for the CPAP.
The first is Ambien, and the other is a "diuretic" (I'm glad we were having this conversation via email instead of over the phone or I would have been extremely confused by this word) called Diamox. In the past he's also suggested something for my twitchy legs... I don't remember the name, but he says it's normally used for treating Parkinson's, which kind of makes sense, but still... O.o
So, ok. I've heard a lot of horror stories about Ambien, like people sleepwalking and doing crazy things, and I've got an active enough imagination that I really worry about me doing that-- and yet it's still in use, so maybe these stories have been exaggerated?
I know bugger all about the others.
Of course I'm going do some proper research too, but do any of y'all have comments or advice?
Edit: Hmmm... this seems to describe too small a study for it to be completely conclusive, but it makes me a bit more tempted to at least try the Ambien...
This week it's been worse than ever, and I'm not sure why. Ok yeah I barely slept while I was at DragonCon, and I know one doesn't recover from that overnight, but a week? Every morning this week I've woken up feeling like I barely slept at all. M says that I've been tossing and turning and twitching even more than usual, so I've been getting on my doctor about trying to figure something out.
This morning I got an email from the doc, who is making an effort but I'm pretty sure is stumped as to what the actual problem with me is, suggested two medications for me to try, both with the aim of helping me get into a deep sleep quickly and/or encourage deep breathing while asleep, and to increase my tolerance for the CPAP.
The first is Ambien, and the other is a "diuretic" (I'm glad we were having this conversation via email instead of over the phone or I would have been extremely confused by this word) called Diamox. In the past he's also suggested something for my twitchy legs... I don't remember the name, but he says it's normally used for treating Parkinson's, which kind of makes sense, but still... O.o
So, ok. I've heard a lot of horror stories about Ambien, like people sleepwalking and doing crazy things, and I've got an active enough imagination that I really worry about me doing that-- and yet it's still in use, so maybe these stories have been exaggerated?
I know bugger all about the others.
Of course I'm going do some proper research too, but do any of y'all have comments or advice?
Edit: Hmmm... this seems to describe too small a study for it to be completely conclusive, but it makes me a bit more tempted to at least try the Ambien...
