Last night I was feeling "Tired But Wired". My body was exhausted but my brain was running at full speed ahead. I should have realised that something wasn't quite right when I was still on line, joining a new ME/CFS Forum, searching the Web and playing games on my iPad at midnight. When I finally went to bed it was well after one.
I was still tossing and turning at 2am when it dawned on me that I might not have taken my dinner time tablets. Sure enough, when I got up and checked, I hadn't taken them.
I used to get Tired But Wired a lot. In fact it was a very common occurrence for me in the first few years of the illness. Now I take Rivotril (Klonopin), Lexapro and Melatonin every night. This combination reduces my brain activity and helps me gently drift off to sleep, although I do still wake a few times during the night.
Dr. Paul R. Cheney, M.D., Ph.D., a prominent ME/CFS Dr. and an advocate for the use of Klonopin says, "...many patients report feeling exhausted, yet also strangely "wired." The "wired" feeling is the slight shift towards seizure that occurs as a result of the excitatory neurotoxicity".
http://www.prohealth.com/lirbrary/showarticle.cfm?libid=8021
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