Re: sleep - wake;

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Aletta,

Sorry hon. It must be just horrible for you. I wish I knew how to

help you.

Belinda

> Very timely all this discussion about sleep and wake. aw mydoctor

today in

> paart about my inability to sleep (Idon't think I've had a solid

hour in

> the past week. the benzodiazepines don't seem to work anymore, not

even

> when my doctor suggested I double them (no diffenrence). I use

dexedrine

> to wake up in the morning. I will ask about the provigil, but like

the new

> sleeping med I was supposed to try, it probably isn't covered in

which

> case, back to square one. If I take nothing, I just go in and out

of

> sleep, sleppwalking, hallucinating, memory loss - I will be neither

awake

> nor asleep, day or night makes no diffence at all. If I stop

taking meds

> while in the awake (dexedrine induced) state I will keep going

until I

> collapse (usually about 2-3 days) after a couple of hours I'm right

back to

> being the everready bunny. Teriribly bizarre and I have no name

for this,

> doctors usually just shrug (with noted disbelief) - that doesn't

> help. =jbf= noted sleep deprivation was a very effective torture -

I can

> concur with that. After a while sleep and death seem synonymous,

and I

> would gladly take either rather than stay sleep deprived. Most

people

> confuse this with difficulty sleeping; not the case. I have not

felt

> sleepy one single time in almost three years now (Good Friday

1999), before

> that I average four hours nightly from 1986 or so. In my earlier

healthy

> state I slept 8-10 hours and was a frequent napper.

> I'd really like someone to explain what is going on with me

> exactly. Doesn't look like there is a sleep study in my future

(too

> expensive). Like my doctor I feel much of my symptomology would set

itself

> right.

>

> aletta mes

> vancouver, bc Canada

> web: http://aletta.0catch.com

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