I'm still having an enormous amount of trouble sleeping on 25mg of Seroquel, which I've been taking for sleep for a couple of years now. It used to pretty much make me pass out after a while, and now it's hardly working at all (50mg works but gives me the hangover from hell). Not sleeping much is beginning to really affect my mood. I was revved up for some days and now I'm feeling very down and irritable (which may or may not be BP-related, maybe it's just a normal reaction to not sleeping?).

I'm going to call my pdoc soon, but before I do, I'd love some suggestions on sleep meds that are NOT AP's. Abilify (along with Lamictal) has kept me stable for so long, I don't want to shake the boat and add another psych med. So I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what regular sleep meds work and if any have affected your mood. I mean, I say I don't want to rock the boat, but maybe even a regular sleep med would put me off-kilter. I just don't know. I'm lost here...

i'm in the same insomniac boat as you; most times 1/2 of 25mg seroquel works like a charm, sometimes i need to take 25mg of it or 37-1/2 mg. seroquel but fear the weight gain tho i exercise hard 5x a week; i'm always mixing and matching; zzzquill i think helped when i tried it severall times; now always add 5mg melatonin to whatever i take for sleep; 10mg ambien does almost nothing for me and it seems that seroquel poops out on me after several weeks so i'll try to use something else and now have added and use and so far, so good: 1/2 25mg. seroquel+5 mg melatonin, 15mg. temazapem....i'm female, 71, never had sleep issues up until about a year ago and i wish there were some magic pill(s) that work each and every time; i don't mind the hangover as i'm retired and have no rush to go anywhere in the morning other than to the health club to work out. let me know if you find the magic pills(s)

Thanks!