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Scooter9 · Mar 08, 2022, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BethRags

Still no hot water, which means we certainly won't have any in the morning, either.

I had the appointment with my psychiatrist. It went pretty well. She wouldn't raise my Zoloft (concern about serotonin syndrome...I really don't think that would be a likely issue, but she comes up with some odd concerns). She did agree to increase the Gabapentin by 300mg. I believe that's the med that's most helping with hellish anxiety, so I'm hopeful about that increase. Amazingly, she agreed to prescribe 12.5mg. of Seroquel for sleep - buuut, only enough for half a month. She doesn't want me to take it every night. That makes no sense to me, but at least I'll have it sometimes. It will be nice to sleep well...sometimes

I did not tell her that I still have 1/2 a bottle of Seroquel from my previous pdoc. Being able to get decent sleep makes life so much more bearable, as we all know. So I figure that I have at least a month of good sleep. After that, I can supplement the Seroquel with ZzzQuil or other otc sleep meds. Melatonin. Whatever.

I was on Seroquel for about 15 days at one point to help my sleep too. It helped me, it seemed to reset my sleep.

I still have sleep problems now but I'm on latuda and remeron which make me very tired and result in at least 9 hours sleep. My pdoc tells me it's the depression that's causing the sleep issues for me.

I'm glad the gabapentin is helping you. I also got a lot of benefit from it when I was on it. The only downside is that I had to take 3 pills, 3 times a day.