@johnhans, I certainly have sympathy for your sleep issues, as I, too, am plagued with difficulty in getting to sleep and/or sleeping through the night. As I have gotten older, this problem has become more difficult for me, and I just put up with it to a degree; like you, also getting a full night's sleep eventually when my body is too tired. Taking 100 mg of Trazodone will help me get sleepy, but it doesn't necessarily keep me asleep throughout the night, and a higher dose makes me too disoriented when I wake up to use the bathroom. Sometimes reading for an hour will let me go back to sleep, but often though awake I'm too tired to comfortably read. It's a pickle. I have not gone back to an older medication after a long period of time to see if it works, but for me the combination of Abilify with Lexapro seems to be working much better than anything alone in the past. Like you, I was unable to tolerate the side effects for me while taking Cymbalta, just FYI. I wish you as best of a set of outcomes as possible in your treatment and for your sleep. - Jay

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