Posted by med_empowered on November 4, 2005, at 23:35:11
In reply to Re: Sick of beung alert -sleptness Seconal?, posted by Ame Sans Vie on November 4, 2005, at 23:13:29
hey! To Ame--how does Alurate make you feel? I've always been curious about it...its a schedule III,unlike most other barbs so you could get re-fills, and I think it is or was primarily an anti-anxiety drug...do you take it for sleep, or treatment-resistant anxiety?
I dont know why docs use Phenobarbital for sleep..I mean, it works, but it lasts sooooo long; I really think the patient would fare better using Tuinal or something, as long as suicide isnt in the picture. Seconal, from what I understand, is pretty intense and dumbs people down...if you look at prescribing habits, it seems that Nembutal and Amytal were the preferred barbs for anxiety; although Seconal **can** be used for anxiety, it seems it was used most often for sleep. There's also Tuinal but I doubt that's RX'd very much *at all*; when barbs were big, Tuinal was apparently the most problematic of them all (although seconal was used by more people since it was RX'd more). Chloral hydrate is absolutely horrid and vile. Sometimes some "mixing" (with your doctor's guidance) can be helpful. Example: when I had super-severe insomnia (which seems to somehow have lifted since), taking an extra .5mgs Klonopin at dinner along with 600-900mgs Neurontin, plus 5-10mgs Ambien (if needed) did the trick..it sounds like a lot, I know, but I actually tolerated it pretty well w/ minimal hang over. My doc worked my meds so instead of relying on a single med at pre-set dosages, I could adjust a couple meds to get maximum effect w/ minimal problems. The medication costs were kind rough up-front, even with insurance, but...since I could use small amounts of each med (or none at all), they lasted forever. I think now that we're in the age of Lunesta and Ambien, you can have more flexibility in treating insomnia with multiple agents.
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