I don’t get it. For years it was all too easy to stay awake until the wee hours in the morning. Sometimes those wee hours turned into staying up a full 24 hours.
Now, in the last two months, all I can do is sleep. I drop off reading, working in front of my computer, the bus.
It isn’t because I’m not getting enough sleep. I am. I’m averaging 6-7 hours of sleep, now.
I thought at first that maybe it was sugary food. Except I’m not dropping off just after sugary food. Any meal has me nodding off. If I don’t eat, I nod off.
What’s truly annoying is that most times my eyelids are so heavy, it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, I have to sleep, or fall on my face.
Other things to blame have been depression, or my meds. The only thing I can possibly connect this change to is a 2nd blood pressure med I began taking to knock my BP down. I have asked the doc if the now lowered BP could cause this, but he says no.
I’m wondering if he’s wrong.
Friday is a 6-month appointment. I’ll ask again.
Tags: depression, Health, medications
That is a bit on the low side…
Yeah. I take it twice a day. It averages about 100/60 – that’s too damn low, so that’s gotta be the problem.
Metoprolol is a beta blocker. Even if it doesn’t drop your BP too low, it can make you tired because it slows down your heart rate.
Have you been checking your blood pressure?
My main BP med is Micardis, which I’ve been taking without any side effects. My other doc added Metropolol to it about two months ago when this all began.
After doing some research last night, I’m definitely suspecting that the second med is knocking my BP too low.
Jayne, what is your new BP med? Lowered BP (at least if it’s just lowered to the normal, healthy range) shouldn’t make you tired, but a beta blocker sure as hell can.
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