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Mar 09, 2016, 01:38 PM
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I know a lot of people with BP also have a sleep disorder. How are you sleeping lately? What do you take for sleep? Does it help?
If I do sleep then I'm waking up every couple hours from a wacky dream that seroquel causes. Or I don't sleep enough hours at all. My pdoc had to more than double my dose and it's not working very good so I'm considering geodon. And since I'm looking into a new sleep med, I'd love to hear what's working for you guys! So please do share. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Mar 09, 2016, 01:45 PM
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I'm taking Latuda at bedtime, knocks me right out, waking at 6am or so, do have crazy dreams but getting solid sleep in. Before sleep was an issue even with trazodone
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Mar 09, 2016, 02:06 PM
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Latuda is another one I've been thinking about. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Mar 09, 2016, 02:39 PM
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I take those two listed. I usually wake 2-3 times per night but I get about 10 hours total.
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Mar 09, 2016, 04:12 PM
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Traz, that is no working, Remeron, that is too new for me to know if it works and Xanax. Sometimes I wonder how long to Serotonin Syndrome.
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#6
Mar 09, 2016, 04:28 PM
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I struggle bad with sleep. That's the main reason I was put on zyprexa. But bc of the weight gain I'm weaning off of it. I'm down from 15 mgs to 7.5 mgs now. I also take trazadone, hydroxyzine, lorazepam, oh that's it. But each time I go down on the zyprexa, I have to increase the other meds. Not the lorazepam tho. She won't up benzos. But I can only go up so much. Idk what we're gonna do with next decrease.
So you could try trazadone and hydroxyzine. I hope you find something that works for you... |
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#7
Mar 09, 2016, 04:58 PM
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A good-sized dose of gabapentin plus clozaril is making me sleep better than ever (?) before. I didn't even sleep as an infant and the only time I remember sleeping easily like this was when I was first on Emsam combined with 600 mg of Seroquel XR. Then I fell asleep at 11 and woke at 4. It worked for me but a lot of people thought it wasn't enough sleep.
At this point I'm probably sleeping too much so I probably need less gabapentin but I don't even care right now; my body has been through so much this year that I'm very willing to let myself rest. Even in the hospital they were encouraging me to sleep and heal. I see my pdoc pretty soon and probably will try less gabapentin then.
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Mar 09, 2016, 06:19 PM
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I sleep 4 hours tops ... I blame geodon ... took geodon for 2 years and slept like a rock ... nothing and I mean nothing could wake me ... when I went off geodon sleep went to hell ... I believe geodon so over whelmed my system that years later it is still not back to where it used to be ... never had sleeping issues before geodon ... don't you just love your ap ...
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Mar 09, 2016, 06:35 PM
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Yea nothing other than seroquel makes me sleep now. I tried everything OTC and vitamin wise. Nothing touches me. Once in awhile if I'm very desperate and seroquel doesn't work then I take two ativan. But I'm up in 3 hrs! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Mar 09, 2016, 06:46 PM
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I feel like I'm the only one that doesn't get knocked out on Latuda, and I take 60mg of it. For my sleep is really erratic, especially when I'm hypomanic/manic. And to even get to sleep, I have to take benadryl, and that doesn't always help, I still wake up through out the night. It sucks to be honest, I just want some decent sleep.
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#11
Mar 09, 2016, 06:57 PM
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I actually have a diagnosis of "insomnia due to other mental disorder" because my pdoc thinks it's part of my bipolar. So I'm on a snootful of meds to make me sleep, among other reasons. Even so, I've been having trouble getting to sleep before 2 AM lately, probably because I'm just a little hypomanic and have been for about three weeks. I sleep enough, I just don't seem to be able to do it at the "proper" time. I also wake up at least once a night.
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#12
Mar 09, 2016, 07:00 PM
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Latuda didn't knock me out. Which would have been good probably at the time except it didn't work either.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Mar 09, 2016, 07:06 PM
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What sucks about my sleep is that I won't sleep when I take my meds yet I can nap all day after from its hangover it has. So maybe I should just take it at lunch? Lol
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Mar 09, 2016, 08:31 PM
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Is Latuda an AP or AD? I think I've seen commercials but I can't remember Edit: derrrrr. nvm just looked it up lol. It's an AP, 2nd generation. Looked up geodon too. Does it have to taken twice a day?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Mar 09, 2016, 08:38 PM
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AP.Often really effective
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Mar 09, 2016, 09:02 PM
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I was taking 200 mg lamictal, 80 latuda, 20 ambien, two Benadryl and 10, melatonin and still waking up. Then she dropped the lamictal to 150 and I've been sleeping better, even lowered the ambien to 15. I should probably switch the lamictal to am and see if that helps even more.
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#17
Mar 10, 2016, 01:40 AM
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The only cure I found for the insomnia that comes with bp is working the night shift. Sure your sleeping during the day but at least you sleep without meds lol
Well most of the time
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#18
Mar 10, 2016, 09:54 AM
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I'm prescribed trazodone but I rarely ever take it, like I've taken it only a few times in the past year. I sleep really good. No problems since I've been stable on my meds. I sleep straight through the night. I used to have a lot of trouble sleeping but that was usually when I was manic.
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