DarkStarCrashes
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Addicted to Gabapentin, Phenibut, Tramadol, & Caffeine - Reverse Insomnia KILLING ME
I have been having an issue now one and off for years with the same symptoms - I wake up around 5am with a racing heart, high BP, RACING thoughts, and crippling anxiety. My anxiety is so bad and I wake up with my brain speeding so fast that I have to sit up and move out of my bed to a chair to focus on my breathing. For about an hour my gag reflex is so weak that I have to watch my breathing so I do not start dry heaving or vomiting and I have an urge to cough, which triggers me to vomit either my stomach contents or bile. It *is* possible for me to fall back asleep if I can calm myself down after being awake for 30-45 minutes but by then it will only be a few minutes before I awaken again with the same symptoms.
These problems are causing all sorts of issues. My girlfriend and my family who I live with think I may be using hard drugs again and am just going through morning withdrawals. I wake up at 4:45am-5:00am on Sundays or my days off. The time I awaken is pretty much the same time, often to the minute, regardless of when I had went to sleep. I have been having issues with a couple teeth cracking and I think it is due to puking bile so often. I do not need to wake until 6:30am so I am loosing valuable shut eye time, and I have recently began struggling with some serious depression that is being exaggerated by waking up every day like this.
When I am like this I cannot even speak to my girlfriend or anyone else for that matter because my nerves are so tense and gag reflex so weak that talking can often provoke vomiting. I am also a chainsmoker so at this point I am smoking half a pack of Marlboros before I even clock into my 9-5 job.
Once I can breath and can start to calm my thoughts, I take my "medications". I am currently taking 2g of phenibut/day, 1200mg gabapentin/day, 400mg/tramadol today.
The phenibut and gabapentin are both GABAergics and I have read anecdotal reports of dopamine rebound from the Neurontin and Phenibut - but why would it be at 5am every day when I normally only dose them early in the day.
The Tramadol is also of course an SSRI SNRI and opiod receptoor agonist and I suspect also plays a role in all of this.
Could it just be stress and maybe anxiety disorder? Has anyone else ever experienced any symptoms like this? I NEED my sleep and am so tired of this. What could be causing it every single day and what can I do to let my body wake up gently like I want it to. My thoughts are moving so fast in the morning that I can hardly deal with it. I will have a song playing in my head, have random lines from movies run through it, be thinking about mistakes I've made, and about what I have upcoming during the day all at the same time with no off switch...
I have been having an issue now one and off for years with the same symptoms - I wake up around 5am with a racing heart, high BP, RACING thoughts, and crippling anxiety. My anxiety is so bad and I wake up with my brain speeding so fast that I have to sit up and move out of my bed to a chair to focus on my breathing. For about an hour my gag reflex is so weak that I have to watch my breathing so I do not start dry heaving or vomiting and I have an urge to cough, which triggers me to vomit either my stomach contents or bile. It *is* possible for me to fall back asleep if I can calm myself down after being awake for 30-45 minutes but by then it will only be a few minutes before I awaken again with the same symptoms.
These problems are causing all sorts of issues. My girlfriend and my family who I live with think I may be using hard drugs again and am just going through morning withdrawals. I wake up at 4:45am-5:00am on Sundays or my days off. The time I awaken is pretty much the same time, often to the minute, regardless of when I had went to sleep. I have been having issues with a couple teeth cracking and I think it is due to puking bile so often. I do not need to wake until 6:30am so I am loosing valuable shut eye time, and I have recently began struggling with some serious depression that is being exaggerated by waking up every day like this.
When I am like this I cannot even speak to my girlfriend or anyone else for that matter because my nerves are so tense and gag reflex so weak that talking can often provoke vomiting. I am also a chainsmoker so at this point I am smoking half a pack of Marlboros before I even clock into my 9-5 job.
Once I can breath and can start to calm my thoughts, I take my "medications". I am currently taking 2g of phenibut/day, 1200mg gabapentin/day, 400mg/tramadol today.
The phenibut and gabapentin are both GABAergics and I have read anecdotal reports of dopamine rebound from the Neurontin and Phenibut - but why would it be at 5am every day when I normally only dose them early in the day.
The Tramadol is also of course an SSRI SNRI and opiod receptoor agonist and I suspect also plays a role in all of this.
Could it just be stress and maybe anxiety disorder? Has anyone else ever experienced any symptoms like this? I NEED my sleep and am so tired of this. What could be causing it every single day and what can I do to let my body wake up gently like I want it to. My thoughts are moving so fast in the morning that I can hardly deal with it. I will have a song playing in my head, have random lines from movies run through it, be thinking about mistakes I've made, and about what I have upcoming during the day all at the same time with no off switch...
