Drugs and sleep
Nov. 25th, 2007 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenAstute readers may have noticed a theme over the last few months in which I whine about not sleeping. Earlier I posited that it might be the drugs I'm taking, since the one time I slept a full eight hours was the same day I forgot to take any of my medications.
But realistically, it can't be the drugs. Of the four drugs I take, I've taken three of them for a minimum of three years. If it was any one of those, or an interaction between them, I'd have had problems sleeping for a lot longer than two months. The newest drug was introduced slightly less than a month ago, so if it was that drug or an interaction between that drug and one of the older drugs, I shouldn't have had the trouble sleeping beforehand. It CAN'T be the drugs.
But yesterday I deliberately did not take my medications, in an effort to either replicate or disprove past results. And last night, I slept for eight solid hours.
It can't be the drugs, and yet it has to be the drugs.
Since not taking my medications is not an option, my next experiment will be to switch the time of day that I take them. Perhaps it is not the drugs so much as it is when the drugs wear off.
But realistically, it can't be the drugs. Of the four drugs I take, I've taken three of them for a minimum of three years. If it was any one of those, or an interaction between them, I'd have had problems sleeping for a lot longer than two months. The newest drug was introduced slightly less than a month ago, so if it was that drug or an interaction between that drug and one of the older drugs, I shouldn't have had the trouble sleeping beforehand. It CAN'T be the drugs.
But yesterday I deliberately did not take my medications, in an effort to either replicate or disprove past results. And last night, I slept for eight solid hours.
It can't be the drugs, and yet it has to be the drugs.
Since not taking my medications is not an option, my next experiment will be to switch the time of day that I take them. Perhaps it is not the drugs so much as it is when the drugs wear off.
