Topic Title: Sleep, dreams, and dosages?
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, Tue 17 Sep 08:38
Hi all!
Since my last posting here, I am happy to say that after the first 3 weeks or so, SJW is having a generally positive effect - I do feel emotionally more stable, and that's nice. I haven't been feeling wildly euphoric either, but stable is better than not.
I have experienced a bit of the headaches and a feeling of tension in my head and eyes, but I'm hoping that will pass. My eyes are more senstive to sun now - I actually need the sunglasses or I squint like crazy. And has anyone noticed a weird sensitivity to certain colors? Green traffic lights and red and pink flower petals (like geraniums and impatiens) look amazingly bright and almost glowing now. I know that sounds weird, but it's true.
What I was hoping to get some insight into, though, is the matter of dreams/sleep. A lot of people have mentioned dreaming more vividly, and I've been having unbelievably vivid dreams which I remember in detail the next day. They're not good dreams but not nightmares, either - they're just sort of tense and complex/confusing. I don't mind the dreams per se, but what bothers me is that I don't feel like I sleep as deeply as I used to. (I've never had any problems with sleeping before). I wake up feeling sort of uneasy and perturbed rather than well-rested, and I've been developing permanent dark circles under my eyes.
I wondered whether I could alter the timing of my doses to effect some sort of change in my sleep patterns. Now I take one 450 mg capsule in the morning (around 10 or so) and another at around 11pm or so before bed. Has anyone found that taking the full dosage at once helps you sleep sounder? Or spreading it out into three doses instead of two?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and best wishes!
Katherine
Posts: 2 | | Registered: Wed 28 Aug 2002 19:46 |
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| |  "Re(1):Sleep, dreams, and dosages?"
, Sat 28 Dec 08:57
Actually, I find the dreams uncanny. I wish there were more discussion about them. First, some seem to be very closely related to real life issues going on much more so than when not on sjw. They are intense because they are hitting home. If I were in therapy, I would take this stuff just for that. Just for the hell of it...here is my last dream...I had this dream that I had to remember this Halcyon viking death ship. I repeated it over and over in my sleep. I didn't know what the heck halcyon was or meant. Its a type of mythical bird that calms the waters during the winter solstice which coincidentally is now. And the viking death ship which at first I thought might be some ghost ship is I think the practice they had of sending bodies out to sea in a small ship which served as a coffin. I just have this eerie feeling today. An interesting eerie feeling. Anyone else find their dreams highly symbolic?
Posts: 11 | | Registered: Thu 12 Dec 2002 8:2 |
| | "Re(1):Sleep, dreams, and dosages?" , Wed 18 Sep 15:22
Hi Katherine,
I'm glad to hear SJW is starting to work for you!
I have been taking SJW for almost 3 1/2 weeks now and I haven't had vivid or bad dreams. I take 1 caplet around 7am, another around 12pm and the last one around 5pm. Maybe if instead of taking your last dosage at 11pm you took it earlier it would help you stop those vivid dreams. Just a guess!
Some people here take them all together at night and it seems to work well for them, maybe it could help you too??? I guess every individual has to experiment to see what’s best for him or her.
About the side effects, I've also had headaches, feeling of tension in my head and eyes, and my eyes are sensitive to sun too.
SJW is helping a little bit but I think I could use some more help from it, I need to give it more time, the anxiety still is pretty bad!
Good luck
Catz
Posts: 13 | | Registered: Wed 11 Sep 2002 12:17 |
| | |  "Re(2):Sleep, dreams, and dosages?"
, Mon 30 Sep 22:54
Hi - Just to update, I decided to quit SJW, after about 4 weeks. I originally said I'd stay with it for 6 weeks no matter what, but the sleep problems upset me too much. I went from two 450 mg pills/day to one, but after a couple days of that I just stopped taking them altogether. The effects it had on my sleep and dreams were almost immediate - I woke up the first morning after taking just one pill and, though I could remember some of my dream, I didn't feel like I hadn't slept at all, and could only remember pieces here and there rather than the whole dream in vivid detail. It was so refreshing! I feel so much better now, can keep the late-night hours that I love to be able to keep, and then am so relieved to be able to return to the good sleep I had before SJW! I had also felt my heart pumping extremely hard, often just before bed, and that had alarmed me - that has now disappeared.
I wonder if the 900 mg/day dosage was too much for my system to handle. I'm 5'5" and 120 lbs, so not exactly petite but smaller than the average human being, I guess, though I'm not terribly sensitive to other substances like caffeine and alcohol.
I might, someday, experiment with trying just one 450 mg or 300 mg SJW pill a day. But for now, I know SJW works well for many, and I think that's great, but it's probably not for me. In a way I didn't want to post this because I don't want to deter people from trying it, as it really seems to have been perfect for many people, and experiences like mine seem less common. The problem could be that I feel I'm only mildly depressed, most of the time - perhaps too mild for SJW to work well. I hope I can find other ways of dealing with the problem. Best of luck to everyone out there, and thanks for your help!
-katherine
Posts: 3 | | Registered: Wed 28 Aug 2002 19:46 |
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