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Has anyone else had sleep issues when decreasing bupropion dosage?
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 10, 2023 | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
I completely agree that another prescription is not something to seek out.
I've gone days without sleeping, I have to admit. I was always a short-sleeper, but the Wellbutrin has enhanced that.
Now that I've gone a couple of days waking up around 7 instead, I'm feeling less depressed.
One "trick" to get me to drop off quickly that I discovered by accident is to just let my mind wander and throw any images at me that it wants to. Once the images start flowing, I'm out very quickly. If I can't get any images, then I'm going to be up for a while and fall back to reading until I'm sleepier.
Coffee is unpredictable for me. Sometimes, it keeps me up, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it keeps me up two nights later. I guess I'd try to eliminate any and everything that *could* keep you awake (even if you don't think it would).
Good luck to you.
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Great idea. I tend to be up wee hours of the morning routinely if I am already up writing at about 1:00 am to 6:00 am when daylight happens. Or routinely, I have to get up to urinate near 4ish in the morning and since I know that I won't be able to get back to sleep, I am up for the morning. But like just now, I can be laying down watching something and fall asleep, but not for long though. Like naps during the day. I never get to what is called REM sleep, deep sleep that is restful. I have a sound machine near my bed, I can if I make a solid effort at times turn it on to say rain falling or the ocean and manage at some point to doze off. I think I am so afraid of the before sleep that trying to get some more sleep seems like a daunting effort.