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Originally Posted by still_crazy
hi. i think its now a fairly common combination. kind of like how back in the day, psychiatrists would put people on haldol plus thorazine, stelazine plus thorazine, etc.
if it works, that's great. there are other drugs for sleep. hydroxyzine comes to mind, for instance. that would do the antihistamine thing w/o the risk of td, weight gain, etc., and w/o the potential weirdness from being on 2 tranquilizers.
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I take Atarax to prevent akathisia from Seroquel. It probably adds sedation, but the reason I take it is to fight akathisia. I now get an occasional knee jerk (no pun intended - literally). In the past I had torture-like full body akathisia. So I am very thankful to Atarax as it allows me to take Seroquel. I cannot take beta blockers for akathisia since my blood pressure drops too low. Also, beta blockers are not effective. Atarax is 99% effective.
Alone Atarax is not enough for me, though, for sleep. Even with Ambien, it was not enough.