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Sep 27, 2009, 05:56 PM
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I am on 50 mg of serequil for sleep and also to raise the effectiveness of my dose of effexor. Now when i take the seroquil, i still have a time falling asleep and an even harder time waking up. Does not matter how loud my alarms are or how many alarms there are. Even when i do wake up, i sound like i have been drinking. I have tried ambian for sleep with a higher dose of effexor and that stopped working. Have tried abilify which sucked...made me irritable. I know the effexor works but does anyone have any options that i can run by my pdoc?
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Sep 27, 2009, 06:51 PM
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How about Lunesta or desyrel (trazadone)?
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Sep 27, 2009, 10:51 PM
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I had good results with trazodone (desyrel). I took 50mg at bedtime, and I slept pretty well. There was a bit of a hangover effect in the morning for the first week or so, but it went away. If I didn't leave enough time for sleep, though (ie; at least 8 hours) I had trouble waking up.
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Sep 28, 2009, 11:20 AM
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Been on the traz trip and i become a zombie even at 50 mg....i do not think lunesta is available in their formulary. I am thinking maybe change in routine. I love the meds in every other way.
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Sep 30, 2009, 09:17 PM
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That's strange, I take 1000 mg of seroquel a night and it has no effects on me other then doing what it's meant to do.
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#6
Sep 30, 2009, 11:41 PM
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Lunesta can be very good if you take it right. The instruction: "do not take with or after meals," however, means what it says! billieJ
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Oct 01, 2009, 03:19 PM
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Thank you all for the feedback. I think i will run all this by pdoc tomorrow and see what he says.
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Oct 05, 2009, 11:51 PM
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Quote:
 I am late at seeing this...but Restoril seemed to always do the trick for me back when i used it.No hungover feeling in the AM at all.Seroquel was aaawwfffuuulll for me......i went down to the lowest dose,12.5mg and i was still completely zombified the next day.Rozeram was a good one...nice solid sleep,said to be nonaddicting but OMG.....the headaches in the morning made me want to literally slam my brain into a wall  Right now i am pretty much using simple ole benadryl when i need it.......sleep usually isnt the problem its getting up and having to deal with life the next day..... Good luck,let me know how it goes
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