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Posted by Larry Hoover on August 26, 2004, at 13:41:32
My white noise generator is awesome. Just one night, and I feel so much better. Yay!
Lar
Posted by Patient on August 26, 2004, at 15:52:53
In reply to a tantalizing tid-bit, posted by Larry Hoover on August 26, 2004, at 13:41:32
-is a circulating fan on low setting. To reduce me from concentrating on high trebly notes cause by motor, I place a very large pillow placed just this side of fan to act as a muffle. I especially found this useful at drowning out the ringing noise that resulted while I was taking Wellbutrin (bupropion).
I'll keep you busy in the future with questions that I find you are helpful with-I just don't get much time on the computer as I would like.
An update to anyone interested: Stopped taking 250mg divalproex sodium about a week ago due to hair loss. Hairstylist found the problem whilst trimming hair-I found the problem clogging the shower drain. I was taking 40mg Celexa and now take 2.5mg Lexapro. Was going through some stress that I wasn't handling well and found myself craving tobacco, as in wanting to smoke a pipe (strange, as I do not smoke and never have smoked tobacco, though do like the smell of a good tobacco burning.) I was also drinking more alcohol to relax, more than the usual small amount of homemade brew of wine or beer. The 2.5mg escitolpram causes more fatigue than the 40mg citalopram for me, and more sexual dysfunction, but otherwise it is helping and I am sleeping better. Last year I took 5mg and 10mg of Lexapro for roughly nine months. To counteract the lethargy Wellbutrin was added to it-helpful combination that, but not affordable. Now, SJW is all I need to help reduce the fatigue.
P.S. You don't knee jerk so much-I'm just too sensitive.
Regards! Glad to see you back : )
Posted by zenhussy on August 26, 2004, at 16:19:58
In reply to a tantalizing tid-bit, posted by Larry Hoover on August 26, 2004, at 13:41:32
> My white noise generator is awesome. Just one night, and I feel so much better. Yay!
>
> LarI was expecting something a bit more tantalizing ; ) but I'll take sleep as being tantalizing as it sooooooooo eludes me right now.
I didn't know you were looking into white noise. I've been using one in my room for years. When the meds or anxiety aren't blowing any chance of sleep out of the water the white noise thingy works wonderfully for quieting my mind and also the morning traffic on my busy road.
I'm happy yer happy. Yay indeed!
--zh
Posted by KaraS on August 26, 2004, at 20:27:36
In reply to a tantalizing tid-bit, posted by Larry Hoover on August 26, 2004, at 13:41:32
Posted by taylor18 on August 27, 2004, at 3:27:31
In reply to a tantalizing tid-bit, posted by Larry Hoover on August 26, 2004, at 13:41:32
What brand and model do you use Larry?
Posted by Larry Hoover on August 27, 2004, at 8:27:25
In reply to Re: a tantalizing tid-bit, posted by taylor18 on August 27, 2004, at 3:27:31
> What brand and model do you use Larry?
I bought a mechanical generator (no looping), the Marpac Sleep Mate 980. The 980 has greater control over volume, and I'm already glad I bought the louder one. I live right beside a stop sign on a truck route. The trucks have to turn there, and they go by all night long.
Lar
Posted by Larry Hoover on August 28, 2004, at 10:26:45
In reply to Re: my white noise alternative to hypnotics, posted by Patient on August 26, 2004, at 15:52:53
> P.S. You don't knee jerk so much-I'm just too sensitive.
My rhetoric can be very solid, if not harsh. I did not cushion my words. I'm sorry.
> Regards! Glad to see you back : )
You too.
Lar
Posted by Larry Hoover on August 28, 2004, at 10:29:54
In reply to Re: a tantalizing tid-bit » Larry Hoover, posted by zenhussy on August 26, 2004, at 16:19:58
> > My white noise generator is awesome. Just one night, and I feel so much better. Yay!
> >
> > Lar
>
> I was expecting something a bit more tantalizing ; )Zenhunny! I must have been trying to tantalize you, specifically. And it worked!
> but I'll take sleep as being tantalizing as it sooooooooo eludes me right now.
Sleep is my core dysfunction, I've come to believe. One bad night's sleep, and I'm a wreck.
> I didn't know you were looking into white noise. I've been using one in my room for years. When the meds or anxiety aren't blowing any chance of sleep out of the water the white noise thingy works wonderfully for quieting my mind and also the morning traffic on my busy road.
Yes! And it seems to promote the effectiveness of my attempts to "roll over and go back to sleep". My brain used to go into high alert from noises that broke into my sleep. With this device, it happens less often, and less severely, if it does happen.
> I'm happy yer happy. Yay indeed!
> --zhGroup Yay! Yay!
Lar
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