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Many years taking sleep medications
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I’ve taken trazadone, sonata, temazapam, Ativan, diazepam, mirtazapine, rozerem, belsomra, melatonin and other OTC pills including magnesium, doxepin, seroquel, ambien, and lunesta, which I take now. Trazadone worked for a few years but then stopped. Sonata only helped for about 2 hours. Doxepin helps a little bit but not very well, even if I double the dose. I couldn’t handle the side effects of seroquel. Ambien puts me to sleep, but the side effects are also an issue with it. Blurry vision and depression. All the benzodiazepines work, but doctors here in San Angelo, Texas, where I live, won’t prescribe them. I guess they think it’s better if I just don’t sleep. We moved back here 3 years ago from Georgia. At that time I was alternating nights with lunesta and temazapam and it was working fine. But after moving here, temazapam was out. So I was left with Lunesta, but only 1 mg. I went to a neurologist, advertised as a sleep specialist. She would only prescribe doxepin and when I ask for something more effective, she wouldn’t help me anymore. So I finally had to drive 90 miles to see a neurologist in another town. He upped the lunesta to 3 mg. It still works, but not as well as it used to. He said those with chronic insomnia will always have to take medication. I don’t know what he’ll say when I see him again. I also follow the guidelines for CBT-I. So I’m still searching.
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What were your side effects from seraquil? I’ve just been prescribed this. Thanks
@toren123 I take 3 mg of lunesta and it does put me to sleep but I have to get up to use the bathroom a couple of times a night but I always wake up at 3:00 a.m. and sometimes cannot go back to sleep or I ruminate. Doctor prescribed me to 1 mg of prazosin to take with my lunesta to calm my nervous system down. As I am two weeks weaned off of Seroquel for 15 years my nervous system is still high. I am still waking up getting an average of 4 hours of sleep, waiting for my nervous system to calm down. Seroquel was the worst drug I ever took because it was so hard to get off it made me depressed in the morning and lethargic during the day.
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I'm sorry that it is so hard for you to sleep. I have had insomnia for many years; 40? I am going to a therapist and with her help have greatly reduced my anxiety and depression. I am taking trazodone to help me sleep but I am off Zoloft for anxiety/ depression which I started taking to help with work stress and menopause symptoms.
Besides the therapy to help me be happier and the trazodone, I listen to a mindful meditation/ hypnosis podcast before I go to sleep. My bedroom is really dark too and sometimes having a sound machine helps as I have pulsing tinnitus which is annoying. I only slept 5 last night but that is not usual when it was the normal... There are a lot of sleep podcasts that I find helpful to help me wind down at night. I really do hope you get some rest and relief.