Sleeping meds - my experience.
I’ve just taken my sleep medication, and thought I’d write down something I’ve noticed. It’s probaby obvious, and it probably won’t help anyone because no one reads my blog anyway, but if people did read it they might had gotten helped…
Anyway. I’ve noticed that I usually don’t get very tired after taking the pills if I’m just sitting in front or the computer (I assume reading and other being-still-activities are the same thing). Then when I get up to go to the bathroom and prepare myself for bed anyway the pills almost always hit me full-on. Sometimes I can’t even make a straight line to the bathroom… I assume moving around a bit helps get the substances circulate and having greater effect. Well, maybe not “circulate”, but ah you get it. It’s not just whileI’m moving; I can’t just go back to the computer afterwards because I feel completely lost (and according to the few people who’ve seen this happen, I act like an alcoholic).
So, if you want your pills to have effect: Wait a while so they get the time needed to kick in. (Mine have effect within half an hour, if I wait more than an hour the effect tends to just go away and then moving won’t work either…) Then get up and have a fast-paced stroll around the room, go take a pee or whatever, and you should be wasted. If anyone actually tries this out I’d like to know if you get the same experience!
Well my pills should have kicked in by now, I’m feeling a bit sleepy but not I-can-go-to-bed-and-fall-asleep-at-once, so Ima go to the bathroom, take a pee, and then hopefully collapse on my bed. Oh, by the way, I’m taking Imovane/Zopiclone, and those pills are for helping you fall asleep within half an hour. I assume this would work on any medicine that’s supposed to make you fall asleep fast, however it does not work on my Lergigan, which are the pills I usually take (Imovane I take when I forget Lergigan). Lergigan needs two hours to work and it doesn’t make me sleepy. However, it makes it easier for me to fall asleep when I do go to bed. I lay awake for maybe 15 minutes - without any medication I can lie awake for three hours.
At the end of the day none of this is probably useful to anyone but me, but I thought I’d post my thoughts and experiences anyway. Experiences are up there, and well thought… I really like Imovane because you don’t need to take it two hours before going to bed. However it’s addictive, and my doctor only gives me a small amout of them to use when I’ve forgotten my Lergigan. Lergigan works satisfactory and I don’t feel the need to change my current ways of sleep medicating, but if I was asked what exactly I’d want, I’d probably say I’d like to have Imovane as my main medication - to me being hooked on one more pill but getting to sleep when you want to is worth it.
I’ve also had Propavan, and that was too much. It was supposed to help me stay asleep during the night, but it knocked me out so completely my mum came home from work during her lunch break to see if I was alive because I’d been sleeping when she left, she’d been unable to wake me up, and I wouldn’t pick up the phone now… I later found out that I should probably had taken just half a pill istead of the two pills the old doctor recommended. Now I haven’t had problems with staying asleep in a long time, just problems falling asleep, so I haven’t tried any lower dose of Propavan.
Finally, I’ve had some crap that my doctor at the time said works well for people with Asperger’s most of the time. It was supposed to work like Lergagan works for me now, but it didn’t do anything. There, list of my sleeping meds through the years completed!
I’ll end this post with Emil’s oppinions about Imovane: He and Tobias are the only people who’ve experienced me on Imovane in real life, and as I said I act like I’m drunk out of my mind. Thus Emil is very careful about it, he helps me remember my Lergigan when he’s here - heck he even brings me the pill and a glass of water every evening. I think something snapped inside him when he had to spend half an hour listening to me telling him a “good night story” which first consisted of my head moving around in space and me telling him what I saw, and then merged into an extraordinarily detailed description of a teapot I saw in my head. When I noticed he’d fallen asleep in the middle of it, I woke him up by yelling “BUTTE”. I presonally can’t confirm, neiter dismiss any of this, because I have a memory loss from that particular night. All I remember is this image of a turquoise teapot…
