My AF Journey Journal
Hi Lemonhead-so nice to meet you and thank you for stopping in to read my journal. I'm having fun with it and I've never been a journal keeper!! Why don't you post your question about sleep and dreams on either the General Board or the Just Starting Out board? I bet you will get a TON of replies!!
Me, I'm just now starting to have decent sleep this past week. The first month I figured, OK, it's going to take my body some time to adjust. The second month I was so scared I was going to end up like Michael Jackson!! Seriously!! Couldn't fall asleep, and when I finally did it was only for an hour or so. I don't even remember dreaming!! I tried every natural remedy on the market and nothing worked, nothing!! I finally got my doc to prescribe Ambien CR for 10 days (I stretched it to 20 by cutting the dose in half) but the GD Ins. Co wouldn't pay for it- I was so desperate I paid $75 out of my pocket. It worked well at putting me to sleep so that was great but I was still waking up every few hours. The difference between now and when I was drinking is that I'd pass out but wake up at 3 and never get back to sleep until 5 or 6 and then be wicked late for work most days. When the Ambien ran out, my doc prescribed Trazadone which interestingly enough is mainly an antidepressant. I took it twice and will never again. It left me totally drugged up the next day to the point of almost not being able to function AND talk about wierd wierd dreams and thoughts. No thank you. One of the things I changed after that experience was to cut out Diet Coke for lunch (most days) and stop taking the Calms Forte that the program recommended. The depression I had been experiencing that I thought was due to lack of sleep lifted almost immediately and I'm definitely sleeping better. Not great but better than I have for decades. My next goal is to add in daily exercise and to actually get out of bed when I naturally wake up at 5:30am.
My rescues are 3 oversized papillons and 2 kitties. they are what gets me out of bed every morning and a major reason I had to stop drinking. I couldn't take one more morning of realizing I had forgotten to feed them the night before or the thought that if one of them got sick or injured and had to go to Emergency, I would not be able to drive them and I have no one else I could turn to. That and the fact that AL was killing my body and my mind.
Welcome Back and hope to see you again soon.
Hi Lemonhead-so nice to meet you and thank you for stopping in to read my journal. I'm having fun with it and I've never been a journal keeper!! Why don't you post your question about sleep and dreams on either the General Board or the Just Starting Out board? I bet you will get a TON of replies!!
Me, I'm just now starting to have decent sleep this past week. The first month I figured, OK, it's going to take my body some time to adjust. The second month I was so scared I was going to end up like Michael Jackson!! Seriously!! Couldn't fall asleep, and when I finally did it was only for an hour or so. I don't even remember dreaming!! I tried every natural remedy on the market and nothing worked, nothing!! I finally got my doc to prescribe Ambien CR for 10 days (I stretched it to 20 by cutting the dose in half) but the GD Ins. Co wouldn't pay for it- I was so desperate I paid $75 out of my pocket. It worked well at putting me to sleep so that was great but I was still waking up every few hours. The difference between now and when I was drinking is that I'd pass out but wake up at 3 and never get back to sleep until 5 or 6 and then be wicked late for work most days. When the Ambien ran out, my doc prescribed Trazadone which interestingly enough is mainly an antidepressant. I took it twice and will never again. It left me totally drugged up the next day to the point of almost not being able to function AND talk about wierd wierd dreams and thoughts. No thank you. One of the things I changed after that experience was to cut out Diet Coke for lunch (most days) and stop taking the Calms Forte that the program recommended. The depression I had been experiencing that I thought was due to lack of sleep lifted almost immediately and I'm definitely sleeping better. Not great but better than I have for decades. My next goal is to add in daily exercise and to actually get out of bed when I naturally wake up at 5:30am.
My rescues are 3 oversized papillons and 2 kitties. they are what gets me out of bed every morning and a major reason I had to stop drinking. I couldn't take one more morning of realizing I had forgotten to feed them the night before or the thought that if one of them got sick or injured and had to go to Emergency, I would not be able to drive them and I have no one else I could turn to. That and the fact that AL was killing my body and my mind.
Welcome Back and hope to see you again soon.
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