Posted by emmanuel98 on July 28, 2010, at 21:44:05
I started taking parnate a year ago and from the very start, it gave me the most severe insomnia I ever experienced. I started taking seroquel and that worked, but made me gain weight (I am already overweight from several trials of AAPs).
I tried perphenazine and that worked for a while, but made me so dizzy (in combination with the parnate) when I got up in the middle of the night that I fell a couple of times. Since the stairwell is right between my bedroom and the bathroom, this was pretty dangerous.Finally, my p-doc prescribed ativan, 1mg, but I've found I need 2mg to get to sleep. As a result, I run out mid-month, then have night after night of no sleep. I asked my p-doc to increase the dose but now the pharmacy is balking that I have over-used the drug and am not scheduled for a refill for another 10 days. Also, I'm finding the ativan is less and less effective as time goes on and I need more and more of it to stay asleep.
Help!!! Any advice appreciated.
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