Posted by mugsy on May 9, 2005, at 20:14:17
In reply to Lunesta, Has Anyone Tried It?, posted by Phillipa on April 10, 2005, at 13:06:33
I've given up on Lunesta. It helps me sleep but I wake up in about 3-4 hours and can't get back to sleep. Also after I wake up from Lunesta it causes my blood pressure to increase to an uncomfortable level. Also that taste is pretty bad to me and lasts almost a whole day. If Lunesta gave me the sleep I needed I would probably put up with the taste but the blood pressure effect is definitely too hard on my body.
In the past I had tried GHB for sleep but had the same high blood pressure problem upon awakening from it. Makes me wonder if there is a common cause of that high blood pressure effect. According to what I had read about GHB, when the sedative effect wears off it causes a large spike in dopamine which would explain the high blood pressure rebound. For me that is too much. I might have been able to tolerate that when I was younger but now it would beat me up too much.
Anyway just wanted to give you an update on how Lunesta affected me.
As much as I don't like seroquel it's all I got right now. I would prefer a long term benzo/seroquel alternating treatment but doctors around here treat benzos like they are heroin or something (unless you're a female then for some strange reason that's ok with the docs it seems).
Maybe I need to dress in drag before I go see a doc for benzo rx.
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