mornings...

[[Da...]]

Is it just me or do symptoms like to go into overdrive anyone time i wake up?,no matter how well i slept or lack of bad dreams,really is a pain.

[[Be...]]

There is a post about this which attributes morning anxiety to increased cortisol levels, low blood sugar levels, and the anxiety of leaving a "safe place." It seems to make sense to me. I am doing so much better in the morning this time with my slow water titration taper than I did with my dry cuts the last time I tapered. I used to hate mornings because I had insomnia most of the night and wanted to stay in bed and the nervousness just seemed worse in the morning.

[[sa...]]

I have read this all over the forum. It was comforting to discover that others had this. I woke to a panic attack every morning, I laid in bed and talked myself out of it. It was nice to know that once I got up and got a cup of coffee it eased up. But it was scarey and annoying when I didn't know what it was. My ears would ring like crazy and my hands were always numb. I felt like I was going crazy.

 

I still feel like that first thing sometimes, but nothing near as intense as before I began to come down. Overall I feel better and better the lower I get. The symptoms change around, but overall it's better.

 

Side note, I've been able to get a nap in some days, hadn't napped in 2 years after being a huge nap lover my whole life. Even as a kid. When I wake from a day nap, it rare that I feel that weird feeling. I take my medication at night so think that might have something to do with it.

 

It does get better, hang in there.

 

Sarah~

PS: interesting xray. 

[[Be...]]

Sarah,

 

I too am finding myself able to nap when I couldn't do that before tapering down to the levels I am on currently. It's pretty nice I must say (when I get the chance ... which is not often because I'm a parent).

[[sa...]]

bi B3

Isnt it feel good? That and dreams were my first signs. I'm a parent, too. He's 12 and loves it when I nap a he his full reign on computer. Lol. Oh man parenting and benzo withdrawl...mass kudos to you. 

have good weekend!

S~

[[Be...]]

Thanks, Sarah. Taking it slow really helps.

[[re...]]

Yeah, mornings are bad. I was hoping this year, when we set the clocks ahead, we could jump maybe 8 hours, instead of just one, and skip morning all together.

[[sa...]]

 

Here! Here! on eliminating mornings alltogether!  :thumbsup:So not a morning person.

 

 

Evan, you had some real trouble with mornings as I recall. Has that subsided? Lightened up a bit?

 

S~

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hey Evan what happens in your mornings?  I wake up with huge adrenaline surges and the anxiety just keeps happening.

 

Lizzy

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Well, when I was tapering, mornings were really bad. I didn't just wake up with anxiety. The anxiety woke me up. And it wasn't just mild anxiety. It was terror. Every single morning.

 

Then, after I was done with the taper and off the drug, it got better for a while. I'd wake up feeling sort of numb. Not afraid. But not good either.

 

That lasted a couple weeks. Then I started waking up depressed. That lasted a long time, several weeks. Then I started feeling some anxiety on waking. Not as bad as before, but bad enough.

 

Now I'm waking feeling ok, at first, but sliding gradually into a mild form of worry and dread. Not unbearable. Much milder than before. I get up and have a cup of coffee, and I feel much better. More than a cup ignites the anxiety.

 

I see all this as part of a larger picture that includes sleep problems. My sleep went right down the drain after I began cutting, and it's only slowly improving. As it improves, so does my morning mood.

 

I was often tempted to start taking some antidepressant during this time. But I decided to give this recovery at least 6 months before I added some new drug. As I said, I'm feeling better, so I think I may be able to survive without prozac or remeron or whatever.

 

I've never been a morning person, but I'm hoping some day I'll wake up feeling excited, but not anxious, about the day ahead, looking forward to it, and not dreading it. A few more months of recovery should do the trick.

 

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A nice lottery win would help too.

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hey Evan

 

this post means so much to me to have someone ackowledge this horrible situation.  I completely understand how you felt the sheer terror is overwhelming and its hard to focus the rest of the day when this is how you wake up.  the anxiety is ridiculous and knowing that you said it gets better.  I agree with not adding any antidepressants will just inflame the situation i took them before the benzos and anxiety and terror went of the richter scale.

 

Im glad you are feeling a little better and waking up excited for the day would be great.

 

cant see you sign line are you still on or are you off this crap.

 

Lizzy

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cant see you sign line are you still on or are you off this crap.

 

Lizzy

 

Hi Lizzy,

 

I've been off clonazepam 3 months, 1 week, and 1 day.

 

It says that right under my ticker, but it's very small type.

To the right of the ticker, there is this graphic:

If you click on that, you get more information about my benzo history.

 

Hope your mornings get better soon.

Evan