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Indie_Kid

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

The sleepies are lessening! I am now sleeping for around 12 hours a day, this is much improved! It is a huge relief.

Mine are increasing. In bed at 9 / 10. Up around 5 and 7 and napping for about 30 minutes in the afternoon. Only woke up because my phone went off. Went out earlier to get some food and hoped that would wake me up a bit. It didn't work!:(

Tiredness appears to have coincided with a new lot (same tablet; just a new box) of tablets. Odd.

Waves_and_Smiles

Eeeeep! I hope sleepies aren't contagious and I didn't pass them onto you Indie! Joking, I hope!

That's interesting about the new tablets. Do you have an old box to try to take a couple of those? I swapped to a new packet of antidepressants a while back and went straight into withdrawal as if I wasn't taking them. I told my GP who gave me a new prescription and asked for the batch number off of the packet. It is rare but sometimes a faulty batch can get through.

Indie_Kid

Sadly not. I've finished my old box of tablets.

Strangely, I was told to take them at night and when I did, I couldn't sleep. GP said they are known for some sleep issues.

Waves_and_Smiles

Ah, personally I would ask your GP if you can maybe try taking them at night again as a one off to see what happens? My antidepressant is supposed to be taken when waking up because it can stop you sleeping. In my case that isn't true at all, it makes me very drowsy 20 minutes later so I now take it directly before bed. They work in different ways with different brain structures. If they are now making you sleepy you might want to swap around. Or even early evening? My GP told me it doesn't really matter when they are taken as long as it is at a regular time. Other medication might be slightly different if you have to take it with food for example.

codemonkey

Same thing happened to me WaS. For 15 years I was really good friends with a guy. When we were younger, there was chemistry but we were never single at the same time and by the time we were, we were very firmly in the friend zone. We've stayed at each others houses, slept in the same bed, been ludicrously drunk together and nothing, not even a kiss has ever passed between us. I introduced him to a friend from uni and they got together and ended up getting married, but he doesn't talk to me anymore because she doesn't believe that nothing happened between us. It's very sad and I miss him, but at the same time I'm angry that he would throw away our friendship. The saddest thing is, I was out with her one night and she told me she doesn't like this about him and she doesn't like that and he's rubbish in bed and so on, but that as nobody else was interested in her, he'd do.

Indie - has the pharmacy switched brand on your medication? Sometimes a change from branded to generic or the other way, or even between brands can affect the way your body tolerates the meds.

Waves_and_Smiles

It was exactly the same for me Code. I was such close friends with his guy that when he thought he had an STD he dragged me into the men's toilets in a pub and flipped his bits out and asked if they looked normal! We weren't attracted to each other in the slightest but just got on incredibly well and he became a really close friend of WaSp's too. His new girlfriend was extremely threatened by our friendship, she didn't even attempt to be pleasant to me in public. We had been friends for 8 years before he met her and I was very sad when I no longer saw him. She told him outright that she didn't believe that men and women could be just friends which left him with a choice. He had also formed friendships with several of my female friends too so he lost those as well.

elsien

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Katy! Now? Maybe now? What about now?
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Just wanted to say WaS that you do make me laugh.

Wellyboots6

Not yet! Although she has moved, hubby found a bum where elbows used to be whilst he was telling her a story. Not sure if that is a good sign or not.

Would be cool if she did escape today, we have got proper big thunder storms!

It'd be all Wuthering heights!

Indie_Kid

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Ah, personally I would ask your GP if you can maybe try taking them at night again as a one off to see what happens? My antidepressant is supposed to be taken when waking up because it can stop you sleeping. In my case that isn't true at all, it makes me very drowsy 20 minutes later so I now take it directly before bed. They work in different ways with different brain structures. If they are now making you sleepy you might want to swap around. Or even early evening? My GP told me it doesn't really matter when they are taken as long as it is at a regular time. Other medication might be slightly different if you have to take it with food for example.

Well, box does just say 2 daily. Going to take one at night and see if that helps.

Waves_and_Smiles

Good idea Indie, see if that helps.

Just a tad impatient, elsien!

(Now???)

It would be the perfect time Katy! A big, dramatic entrance with crashing thunder and lightning! If she has moved maybe she is preparing herself, so exciting!