Posted by jedi on July 29, 2010, at 1:10:39
In reply to Parnate Insomnia, 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.
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> 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.
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> Help!!! Any advice appreciated.Hi, If low dose Seroquel worked, maybe you are sensitive to the histamine blockers like I am. I currently use 50mg of Benadryl to offset Nardil induced insomnia. Knocks me for a loop. I have used micro doses of Seroquel (12.5 and 25mg) with the same effect. Trazodone also works but I really dislike the drugged feeling I get with it. I'm actually quite amazed that I have not built tolerance to the sleepiness effect of the Benadryl. But the histamine blockers have always worked for me.
Good Luck,
Jedi
Jedi
Treatment resistant, atypical, double depression with social anxiety.
Nardil + clonazepam
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