Posted by yxibow on December 14, 2008, at 6:12:14
In reply to I have a question....about getting good sleep, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on December 14, 2008, at 1:42:41
> My previous doctor, had put me on 30mg Restoril at night for 2 years. And you know what funny...? i stopped it and "nothing", and Temazepam was not really effective at all. Xanax (Alprazolam) is so effective with panic attacks, anxiety, and sleep.
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> My current doctor just said "Seroquel", temazepam is for severe insomnia. Well...no big deal, exept Seroquel is so dirty in the it makes you feel, it's just going in the trash.
That's a little odd -- Restoril is pretty weak, its a metabolite of Valium and I've staid up right through it but then I guess I had a bit more of a tolerance to benzodiazepines (I basically do at this point). Seroquel is much stronger for insomnia.I find Trazodone much "dirtier" and unsettling, being so lightheaded if you get up in the night that you have to lay down or feel nauseated.
> That's funny, but still, he thinks it's best for me. He just say's, well....let's go to a lower dose. The dose...is 0! it does not work at all for sleep, it keeps me up, just stare. You know?? i'll just say, well, since it makes me feel like a dead person, let's just go to Halerpersitol....
Haldol could easily give ome EPS and akathisia which wouldn't make one sleep, although I suppose not so much as other conventional APs
> Basically Meletonin causes sleep, but if the mind is to active, something like Prosom would be the best.
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> Estazolam......any imput.Never have taken it but I would say that in the long run for sleep problems benzodiazepines or pseudobenzodiazepines are potentially going to become fairly ineffective. Lunesta is supposedly promoted for more long term use though it too can lose effectiveness I would imagine.
> by the way...Alcohol will get you to sleep, "Southern Comfort" but it interput's the sleep process. You wake up feeling horrible. That's a no-no, same thing to seroquel.
Mm... I wouldn't compare it to Seroquel, I'd say worse than Benadryl, it just leaves you cranky or nauseated, hangovers, etc, the next day and yes, is not conducive to regular sleep.
Doxylamine succinate is better than Benadryl in my opinion (it supposedly is stronger), its one of the two formulas of Unisom (OTC)
-- Jay
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