-3 I've been feeling better today in regard to the medication withdrawal/side effects, but my ear has started hurting yesterday and today, and last night/this morning I didn't get to sleep until maybe 7:30 AM, both my parents had left for work before I managed to get any sleep.
It would make such a huge difference in my life if I could just sleep decently. I'd actually have energy, I could start the day rested and in a good mood instead of wanting to go right back to sleep, and I wouldn't spend so much of my time trying to sleep. But it takes doxepin (I don't remember the dosage) and 10 mg of melatonin for me to even get what sleep I do, if I miss my meds I get literally no sleep, or if I'm lucky, maybe half an hour. I've tried a bunch of other meds too, Trazodone did a halfway decent job (about the same quality of sleep I get now), the rest didn't work. We're looking at getting me in for a sleep study, but it seems like all that will do is tell me that I don't have sleep apnea (which I already know).
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"