Posted by blueboy on September 28, 2007, at 10:10:16
In reply to Re: Seriously Does Anyone Sleep Really Well????, posted by curiousfish on September 23, 2007, at 16:17:17
If you mean long-term drugs *permanently* hurt our sleep cycles, that isn't my experience. I was on Nardil for 3 years with constant bad insomnia. When I stopped taking it, my sleep eventually got back to normal, 7 1/2 to 8 hours.
Of course, I had had periodic insomnia problems all my life due to GAD. And when my depression hits, I'm likely to sleep in the daytime, but I still sleep like 12 to 7.30 or 8.00 every night.
I think, to some degree -- in fact, there is research that says this -- we lose our ability to sleep as we get older. We can't sleep as long but we need to sleep more often. It's like our batteries can't take as big a charge so they need to be charged more often.
> i kind of think being on long term med combos kind of destroys our natural sleep cycles.
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