Posted by tonyz on May 5, 2010, at 16:29:31
I'm worried about sleep of which I've gotten very little during the past 4 months. My current meds are 1.5mg clonazepam, 125mg Amitriptyline (going up to 150 tonight) and 30mg of temazepam, 300mg Li
Unfortunately, I am pretty much a basket case now, I have terrible memory problems, trouble reading, etc. I force myself to exercise every day, but beyond that and checking this forum I don't do very much.
Sorry for the long introduction just giving you some background. I've been on the benzos for about 3-4 months now and other antidepressant medications. My question is since the benzos are known to cause temporary memory and cognitive problems, I would like to get off as quickly as I can, but I also need to sleep. Last night was decent at about 6.5hours. I'm afraid to tweak things too much because of the sleep issues. What do you suggest?
Doc I'm seeing just says take as needed.
I know the clonazepam disrupts rem sleep, temazepam supposedly allows rem sleep but consolidates phase 3 and 4 or something like that. So although I am sleeping now, I don't know the quality of the sleep?
I had been on as much as 400mg of seroquel, and clonazepam and trileptal and sometimes as little as 2 hours sleep. This is when I was in hospital as an outpatient earlier in the year.
The problem I believe is that the hospital doc was insisting that I was bipolar even though he never said that directly, so I've not had a decent antidepressant on board.
What would you do?
What is a good augmentation strategy for the amitriptyline?
Amitriptyline has pulled me out before but it took some pretty large dosages.
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