My sleep has been crap for months despite being on medication. I wake several times during the night and struggle to get back to sleep. My mind is going ninety – mainly about work.
Recently this has progressed to being unable to sleep at all. Tonight/ this morning is one of these nights. At 5:20am, I gave up. I’ve had breakfast and am enjoying a cup of tea. Not the start to Christmas Day I had hoped for. Also not the Christmas I had hoped to have either but I know I’m not alone in that.
At my recent mental health assessment, my medication was changed from Mirtazapine to Quetiapine. I was told it would “knock me out.” It didn’t. What it did was leave me very groggy and foggy headed in the morning. I worked out that I had to take it a good 2 hours before bedtime so that I would sleep at a reasonable time. I still woke during the night.
Given the choice, I prefer Mirtazapine. What would really help is the resolution to me work situation that is the cause of all my anxiety. That’ll come in the new year but it is playing on my mind. I need it sorted once and for all. It’s dominated my life more than long enough.
