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Anyone wake feeling exhausted after seemingly dreaming all night
Sleep Health | Last Active: May 25 1:22am | Replies (128)Comment receiving replies
Glad to see an ecxellent conversation about this. I started taking my antidepressant med at night and it seemed to alleviate the excessive dreaming but now finding that I may not be benefitting from the meds as much during the daytime. Tonight I'm going back to taking it in the morning and take a magnesium and half mg of lorazepam and see what happens. Too bad sleep studies can't help identify anything with this issue!
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I saved an article from Life Extension magazine dated October 2022, titled "The Problem with Sleep-Aid Drugs". It speaks to the fact that those who take benzos for sleep at nighttime have a significant reduction in melatonin production (by half or so), which could/would result in poor sleep. It says to take 3 mg of oral melatonin before bedtime if the person is on benzos for sleep. I take 5 mg of melatonin along with my 2 mg of clonazepam and it works for me. But, note that I take the clonazepam for anti-anxiety, not as a sleep med. Yet it obviously works for me in that regard. If I were to take clonazepam in the AM, it makes my muscle and driving responses highly sluggish.