Mary
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I had been doing pretty well with a cocktail of sleep supplements (l-theanine, niacin, 5-htp, inositol, glycine, melatonin, vitamin C), and was tapering off 1 mg. lorazepam (taken in the middle of the night) for sleep (after looong use - 10 years). Anyways, I was managing it and then a few weeks a go my sleep took a nosedive, it coincided with getting down to 0.125 mg. lorazepam (after a very slow taper), but also I started andrographis and that may have affected my sleep. I am cutting out the andrographis to see if it will help.
Anyways, I would sleep well for 3 or 4 hours, and then have trouble getting any real sleep after that. I started taking Seriphos thinking perhaps cortisol was elevated in the middle of the night (it worked before) but that did not seem to be the case.
So I finally asked my nurse practitioner for Baclofen. She gave me 10 mg. to take at night, but I tend to react quite strongly to meds so I cut it in quarters and 2 nights ago took 2.5 mg. of Baclofen at 2:00 a.m. And felt it within 10 or 15 minutes and was drugged and tired all day yesterday, and even some today. I did not take any more last night.
I don't know what's going on, why I should still feel drugged. I wondered about Baclofen and serotonin syndrome thought I don't really have the symptoms. Any ideas? I do feel better today than yesterday .....
Anyways, I would sleep well for 3 or 4 hours, and then have trouble getting any real sleep after that. I started taking Seriphos thinking perhaps cortisol was elevated in the middle of the night (it worked before) but that did not seem to be the case.
So I finally asked my nurse practitioner for Baclofen. She gave me 10 mg. to take at night, but I tend to react quite strongly to meds so I cut it in quarters and 2 nights ago took 2.5 mg. of Baclofen at 2:00 a.m. And felt it within 10 or 15 minutes and was drugged and tired all day yesterday, and even some today. I did not take any more last night.
I don't know what's going on, why I should still feel drugged. I wondered about Baclofen and serotonin syndrome thought I don't really have the symptoms. Any ideas? I do feel better today than yesterday .....