Bristow9091 said:
Yeah I've been told that by multiple people, and I've talked about it with both my epilepsy nurse and doctor... both medications I'm currently on, levetiracetam and phenobarbital, can be prescribed to help insomnia, and when i was first prescribed the phenobarbital they accidentally overdosed me on them, rather than 30mg a day (I'm now on 90mg a day after working up to it over a two year period), they gave me 150mg a day, and for about two month I was actually getting 8-10 hours of sleep per day, but I also had absolutely no energy whatsoever, was passing out more often, my speech was slurred (I already have a lisp but this was like I was drunk ANd on morphine or something), and I couldn't even process any thoughts properly, it was a very strange experience indeed. It was soon sorted out and they gave me the correct dosage (Turns out the pharmercy got my dosage mixed up with someone else who was prescribed the same medication... lovely) My doctor has said that since I've been sleeping so little for so long, my body has regulated to my unusual timetable and although he recommends trying everything I can to reset my bodyclock and get more sleep per night, my body is "healthy" in its current state... I put quotation marks because of the way he said it, my body isn't healthy as such, just that it's not in a terrible place, it's sort of in limbo where you're not sure how everything is working, it just sort of... is. |
Yeah, it will probably take a while for everything to sort itself back but you'll get there eventually. Hopefully if you get out of the limbo then the rest of your stressors might ease up as well.
