if u wake up prematurely from your xyrem dose but it has been 2.5 hours do you try to fall back asleep or take your next dose?
Waking Up Prematurely
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, Jul 26 2012 06:13 PM
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 07:08 PM
if u wake up prematurely from your xyrem dose but it has been 2.5 hours do you try to fall back asleep or take your next dose?
Hi, I was told that anytime between 2.5 and 4 hrs. is safe to take 2nd dose by My Sleep Dr. Hope this helps.
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Posted 03 August 2012 - 12:01 AM
Yeah, same here. If I'm awake & it's been 2.5 hours, I go ahead and take my 2nd dose.
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Posted 06 August 2012 - 11:55 AM
Agreed, Take the next one... why toss and turn. I also read on another post that taking a small 3rd dose is okay if you wake way to early to get up...
Any thoughts on this?
Any thoughts on this?
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Posted 12 August 2012 - 10:47 AM
Yeah...I take second dose if it has been 2.5 hours. Even when I don't think I slept much at all on the first dose....but I'm just starting, so nurse says that should improve once I get up to higher doses.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 09:42 AM
Yeah...I take second dose if it has been 2.5 hours. Even when I don't think I slept much at all on the first dose....but I'm just starting, so nurse says that should improve once I get up to higher doses.
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I just got bumped to a higher dose and I do sleep a little longer on the first dose... I sleep till the alarm scares the crap out of me! The second dose still doesn't do the trick tho!
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 01:47 PM
if u wake up prematurely from your xyrem dose but it has been 2.5 hours do you try to fall back asleep or take your next dose?
If you're just starting, don't take your current experience as the one you'll be having long-term. The starting dose is very low on purpose, it's because this med has to be inched up a tiny bit at a time. So you start at a dose effective for no one, and go up until you're at the dose effective for you. Even then, it will be a "most of the time," thing, what your experience is.
"Most of the time" I sleep until almost four hours is up, take the next dose, and sleep till the alarm.
Sometimes I sleep two, wake up, get some disturbed sleep, give up and take the second dose, waking up at 5 AM.
Night before last, I woke up after two and a half hours. I watched a show and then took my second dose.
Sometimes I'll work on things in the midnight time.
By the way, there's some historical discussion about sleep in times before the industrial age having been, in the western world, done in two split intervals. http://www.history.v...commentary.html discusses it. So the idea of waking in the middle of the night, doing a little light reading or quiet work, and going back to sleep isn't an unheard of thing!
I have had a couple of random nights where even with the medicine, I didn't sleep. I've had one time when I had a panic attack, but I was really stressed when I went to bed. (I've switched to listening to a relaxation tape at bedtime and it radically changed the experience for me.)
Most of the time, the dose I'm on is just right and I get two intervals of really good sleep, 3.5-4 hours long.
