Scared To Sleep...

[Abstract]

Hi looking4help.

You describe it well. It always feels like a damned if you and damned if you don't thing for me. Normally exhausted and desperate for escape but with no escape via sleep.

The other thing for me was that hypervigilance means I am terrified of being sedated. I normally react paradoxically to sleep medication. Become super vigilant as I feel more sleepy and don't sleep any more than usual. But feel sedated during the day and that freaks the living life out of me.

 

[MissKat]

That sounds about right. I've continued to have dreams like this unfortunatley, but I'm going to my neuropsche tomorrow to talk with her more about it.

 

[Canotia]

Clonadine makes me exhausted. It is a BP medication and it lowers my blood pressure below the functioning level. That is what exhausts me. It's a tough choice, nightmares that panic me or dead the next day. With clonadine, I know I dreamed, I even wake up, but in a second they slip away.