STEPHEN FRY

Hi Zabstract!

Geeze, sorry to hear about the sleeping stuff! I know folks who have a similar sleeping pattern, of sleeping from like 11 to 3. Usually after a few days of it, the body is dog tired and lets you sleep at least one decent night.

However, it sounds like this is a new pattern for you, not the usual. It also sounds like you haven't had that day come where your body makes you catch up. Does your body feel really tired? Is the sleeplessness causing concentration problems, etc?

Even though you say that this started before you started taking the Celexa... when you say it started a day or two before, it's totally possible that you just happened to have a sleepless night before starting the meds and the rest of these are due to the med.

You should talk to your doc and see if this sounds normal. If it is a side effect, it might ease off over a month or so. Or you may need a combination of 2 meds or something.

If it's not your meds, well, at least you can rule that out... and then try other things.

I think somewhere on here there are some threads about ways to try and cure insomnia... but i have a hard time searching threads! we could start another

I used to have sleeping problems until i started taking olanzipine. I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until 3 or 4am, sometimes not at all. And if I did sleep normally through the day, I would still find myself exhausted during the day and would need to take a nap for a couple of hours, which would then start the cycle over again because I wouldn't be tired again until the wee hours of the morning. I stopped drinking pop, and coffee and tea, even chocolate, with little effect. The only thing that has helped me is Olanzipine, and when I run out and forget to fill my Rx I sleep normally for a few days, and then the cycle will start again so I make sure not to run out. My dr said its part of being bipolar. He doesn't know for sure what causes it but has guessed that perhaps my brain is convinced it is day time when it is nighttime and recommended not going on the computer in the evenings (yeh thats gunna happen) and also suggested I don't watch tv in the evenings either, which is ok with me because tv is boring anyway. Maybe it has something to do with the types of chemicals my brain produces or doesn't produce. I dunno. I've just accepted it as part of life for me now. I wish I didn't have to take the tranquilizers because of the slight side effects, but I would rather deal with those then problems with sleep. On nights where I've taken my tranqs and still cannot sleep I take a hot bath and listen to nature music, have a glass or two of wine and if it is really bad I will even try eating some turkey slices because of the aspartame or whatever in it lol. but thats when I am desperate. Usually the hot bath works, especially with aromatherapy bubbles/oil. I would try the warm milk and nutmeg but I am not fond of milk though I know some people who swear by it. but every once in a while I still have one of those nights where I will lie in bed all night long, relaxed but getting more and more frustrated punching my pillow because sleep just wont come.