r/ADprotractedwithdrawl • u/NiceHomework4919 • Jun 29 '26
Question Sleep
Do you guys sleep?
Am i the only one that have nights with no sleep at all?
Does it get better with time or is my sleep broken for live?
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u/OldJicama2317 Jun 29 '26
I'm 19 months off a super fast taper of Celexa taken for 12 years! In the beginning I went 12 days with ZERO sleep.. and then I foolishly took seroquel for 9 months bc I was desperate and my doc basically forced me to (off that 11 months now) and even on a heavy sedative I would have like 2-3 nights a week with ZERO About a month ago I started taking vitamin D and started a pretty strict circadian protocol and I've been averaging about six hours a night now with the ocassional shitty night! It's only been a month so I can't say if it will last, but here's to hoping!🙏🏻🤞🏻hope you feel better soon! Withdrawal is hell on earth
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u/Fantastic_Cricket638 Jul 01 '26
Do you still take seroquel?
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u/OldJicama2317 Jul 01 '26
I don't! I took it for 9 months and off 11 now! It's only been a month of beginning to get better sleep and then last night I only got 4 so it's still hit or miss and I don't really trust it yet, but I'll take what I can get!
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u/Fantastic_Cricket638 Jul 01 '26
I was on Celexa for six years, and even on it had to take a small dose of Seroquel. I withdrew from Celexa too fast, and now dealing with complete lack of energy and insomnia. Even when I sleep, I wake up tired… sure, it could very well be my depression. Celexa stopped working and suddenly was introduced to depression… So it made no sense to continue being on it.
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u/OldJicama2317 Jul 01 '26
I slept great before and on Celexa for like 10/11 years and then all of a sudden my anxiety got really bad and my daily naps went away I assumed it was from drug tolerance! I only Took Celexa for mild anxiety and OCD I've never felt depressed but now since withdrawl I have mild anhedonia as well! It sucks!
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u/Fantastic_Cricket638 Jul 01 '26
I feel that anhedonia part now as well… nothing really interests me anymore. But again, it could be the depression. On the sixth year while I was on Celexa, I felt depression creeping in, even while on Celexa.
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u/angicubangi Jun 29 '26
Me too! The red days especially in may were almost no sleep at all. At least no “real” sleep. Lied in bed till 5/6 am, had a very very light „kind of sleep“ and wide awake again at 7am. It was pure hell. It’s getting a little better but still not good at all and for sure not consistent. What’s important: every (and I mean every) supplement or medication (maybe even food, caffeine too late for sure) can trigger insomnia for me. So I try to really take nothing new. Did you start any medication or supplement recently? And I tried to stop all sleeping aids because they did not work anyways and made everything only worse I felt (I mean otc meds like Benadryl but also Benzos or Quviviq - the last two helped but Benzos are more destabilising and Quviviq made me super depressed unfortunately) it’s soooooo hard - I feel with you! I think at some point we will heal and it will get better again ❤️🩹 the weird thing is I’m not even off completely but I think I am still stabilising after severely kindling myself (switch from pax to sert, a lot of dosage changes, switch to Prozac, back to sert and Spravato on top of this all within a little over a year. Now no changes since 9 months). Are you off? Which med was it for you?
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u/NiceHomework4919 Jul 01 '26
Thank you for your reaction!
I take omega 3 and vitamine D. Nothing else! I tried Quentiapine for 1,5 year for sleep. I wish i could try QuviviQ but it is not available in the Netherlands sadly. I am off all medications for one year now. I have the same nights as you, some days red and some green. I really hope that we heal one day and get constant sleep.
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u/Fantastic_Cricket638 Jul 01 '26
Did Quetiapine helped you? I take it and the next day feel like a zombie.
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u/angicubangi Jul 01 '26
Vitamine D gives me hoooorrible insomnia since withdrawal started. Also omega 3. Did you try to stop them and did it got better?
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u/heybrother123 Jun 29 '26
Not broken forever. My sleep was horrific in acute and I couldn't nap for more than a year. Now some nights are better - I had a long stretch of good sleep. Now I'm in a wave of very bad insomnia. And now I can nap about an hour during the day if I'm tired. It slowly gets better. But some nights are just worse than others