Posted by SLS on April 16, 2012, at 19:56:07
In reply to Re: Adding Parnate and prazosin., posted by uncouth on April 16, 2012, at 15:11:20
> Scott what is your dosing schedule.
4 mg 3 times a day.
> I am taking 5-10mg at night for sleep, but it's not doing anything and I might try 15mg at night, or another dosing schedule, like starting with 5mg earlier in the day.
Prazosin is not improving my sleep at all. My sleep is disturbed by the other drugs I am taking. However, my main motivation for taking prazosin is to treat bipolar depression. For this purpose, it is working wonderfully.
I have not heard of anyone using prazosin to treat disturbed sleep except for in PTSD. If you are looking for a sympatholytic to be used for improving sleep, clonidine seems to be a better choice. You just need to be wary of clonidine producing depression as a side effect.
> What have you found works best for you? Do you feel any immediate effects...
I felt an improvement in depression within a 12 hours of increasing my dosage of prazosin from 6 mg to 12 mg.
> does it cause fatigue or sleepiness during the day?
I did experience sleepiness and fatigue for the first day after the dosage increase.
What conditions are you treating? What is the nature of your sleep disturbances?
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