First, I wanted to say thank you so much to everybody who wished me well or spoke a kind word or who was able to help me and chose to do : Thank you so very much !!! I am truly grateful !
I do have to share some unfortunate news: I passed out last night while sitting up reading daily kos on my phone and slammed into the tile face first. It felt as if I had been hit by somebody with a baseball bat as hard as possible. I came to. I was extremely dizzy and nauseous. I had a tremendous headache that is difficult for anybody else to understand. I went straight to the emergency room last night and they treated me. By the time they released me, it was 5 am and the doctor insisted I take the next two days off and do nothing but rest and sleep. She required that I stop following the instructions of my treatment center doctor who told me to take 2 gabepentin at 300 mg at night when I also take 50 milligrams of amitryptiline. The treatment center doctor gave the instructions to take the gabepentin at night and take both at the same time because I suffered greatly from insomnia which is known to be caused by buprenorphine which I take at the treatment center daily.
The problem is that I have been taking amitryptiline since I started my ph.d. back in 2008. It was prescribed to lower my anxiety and to help me sleep. 50 milligrams is not a small dosage for this medication. When I add the gabepentin to the amitryptiline, then I am taking two medications in relatively high dosages both of which tend to make the person very sleepy. Therefore, in this case, the cure (fixing the insomnia ]caused by the buprenorphine) is worse than the insomnia itself.
Please wish me well as I work on overcoming these issues !! Thank you so much !!