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Originally Posted by Scooter9
Welll the zopiclone didn't work. I'm up after just 4 hours sleep.
It was just a starter dose of 1/2 pill so I guess I need more.
I can go to 1 pill so I'll try that tonight.
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I don’t know how Doxipen could or would interact with whatever your current cocktail is
It’s a tricyclic AD , normally I can’t take an AD’s as they fling me into a mixed episode with in a week. But ... this Med is used for Hives and for insomnia. It really helped me for about a year. Now I wasn’t sleeping every night but better than I am now. I started at 50mg eventually I had to go up to 100mg at bedtime.
It’s not a Med that will chemically force you to sleep , it’s more of a “ allow you to fall asleep and stay asleep more naturally” I never had a Med hangover from it.
It is one medication I might go back on as I’ve had a long break from it.
I did have to monitor myself closely when I first started to make sure it didn’t cause a mood shift.
I do know at one point I was put on Geodon and they can not be taken at the same time long QT so I stopped it , but close to 2 months on Geodon it was useless so I dumped it and went back on Doxipen.
Might be worth asking. So even tho I can’t take an AD in general , Doxipen is just a tad different so for some reason I can tolerate and it can offer better quality of sleep.