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« on: February 29, 2008, 02:39:47 PM » |
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 I thought I'd open a thread to talk about sleep troubles, too little or too much. I am ok right now, Allah be praised, and using seroquel to get to sleep, I have also tried trazadone (didnt like it) and Calms forte, which is a homeopathic sleep aid. So if anybody wants to talk about what gets them a good night's sleep, this is the place. clayton
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« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2008, 03:19:33 PM » |
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I've been having trouble sleeping the night through here lately. I was going to call my pdoc to see if she would call in an Rx of Lunesta for me, but I never did. I've been using Melatonin with my seroquel and ativan. It worked for one night.
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« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2008, 03:32:37 PM » |
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I agree with Clayton, trazodone is awful....they put me on that for awhile & It sucked. Did you get your RX for lunesta yet? Maybe cut back on coffee after 4pm?
Paz
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« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2008, 03:50:48 PM » |
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I drink all my coffee before noon while I have coffee talk.  |
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« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2008, 04:20:29 PM » |
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I'm with you all on the trazadone....I couldn't handle it ....
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« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2008, 04:58:56 PM » |
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Trazadone keeps me up ALL night. Not a good sleep med for me.
Jane
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« Reply #6 on: February 29, 2008, 06:49:18 PM » |
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L-triptophan can be helpful, too. Helped me for a while, until it was taken off the market
It is back.
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2008, 02:09:51 PM » |
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Do any sleeping pills work? None have done anything for me, not ambien, or lunesta or trazodone....etc.
Is this because I am a maniac? Pdoc had never given me a straight answer, only "you are a difficult case"
WTF?
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2008, 02:54:31 AM » |
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hi, I have trouble sleeping all the time. before meds sometime I slept all the time like 14 or more hours a day and sometimes not for weeks. when I was diagnosed an put on alot of meds they made me want to sleep all day and sometimes I did, since then they reduced my meds to just lithium and busbar but now I feel the swings or the illness and need just a little bit more lithium or something to stop that and I hope that a steady sleep pattern will fallow.
it's now 5 am and still up dosant this illness suck lol
Garry
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2008, 08:05:41 AM » |
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All Bipolars have trouble sleeping. I am BPtype 1, ultradian cycling, and on the high manic side. When I am manic, I sleep for maybe 2-3 hours a night, and I feel that sleep is overrated. The mania can last for a week or 2, then I crash. It takes awhile to get back to normal? sleep patterns, but they do come. Ask about your lithium[Itake lithium also] That may help....are you on a tranquilizer of some sort? You could ask about that too. I take Valium for a tranquilizer, and while it doesn't put me to sleep, it does relax me. Maybe something like that would help you get some shut eye. Usually Bipolars take at least 3 different meds. I take 4.
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2008, 03:40:57 PM » |
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what was bad about trazedone?
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« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2008, 03:45:43 PM » |
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I tried trazodone and thought it was terrible....bad taste in mouth, and a drug hangover the next day. I hear other people use it with success....that was just my experience.
Paz.
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« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2008, 08:45:35 AM » |
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The Seroquel has been the only sleep medicine that has EVER worked for me. I recently stopped taking it and I haven't slept since. I don't know what I'm going to do. I stopped taking it because of the weight gain ( i'm talking alot of gain ) and the fact that I slept at least 16 hours with the smallest dose. I've taken it for a year and lost a year of my life since I'm always in the bed. Please be careful with Rozerum, you wouldn't believe what it did to me.
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« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2008, 08:57:31 AM » |
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What did Rozerem do to you? I've taken it before and I had no side affects. Like you said before, funny how meds work for different people.
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« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2008, 09:03:19 AM » |
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OMG...I was like in a coma. I was asleep for about 10 hours, coming from a sever manic state, so my mom was here. During that time that I was sleeping I could see and hear them talking and wanted to move and pee and get a drink but was paralyzed, like you see in the movies when somebody is awake during their surgery. It had to be the worst thing I've taken.
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