THE MORE I SLEEP..

Recently, I’ve been doing that 5am thing again and I am now convinced that the more I sleep, the more I need to sleep.

A rather debilitating side effect of Sertraline for me has been fatigue. I mean to the point where I could sleep all day and all night and still feel tired. I did see the doctor about it and he suggested halving my (already small) dose but it really didn’t help. Feeling out of control, I decided to try and restart my circadian rhythm with a week of early mornings and TO MY SURPRISE, I no longer felt like I needed to nap by midday.

I’m almost 2 weeks in to this and can say, hand on heart, if I sleep late I feel worse.Example: I woke up 5 days in a row at 5am, no naps during the day, went to bed at around 11pm as usual.. no issues. I decided to let myself sleep in at the weekend and by Sunday, 2 days of getting up at 9am had me sleeping on the sofa for hours.