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Many years taking sleep medications

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@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 certainly know how you must feel. I don’t know anything about prazosin. Ativan might help, but it’s a benzodiazepine which doctors may not want to prescribe. Also gabapentin is a possibility. I wish you well.