[AROCH]

Hello everyone!
I am new to this website and this is my first posting. So please bear with me if i sound scattered!

I began feeling really depressed and anxious back in May, just a few weeks before I graduated from university. It got so bad that I started to take Xanax .25mg as needed to reduce my anxiety, but this hardly helped.
At the suggestion of my Primary physician, I reinstated my Lexapro at 10mg after I had successfully been off of it for 4 months. (I been on and off lexapro 20mg for the past 6 years). I had all these plans for traveling abroad and living overseas, but suddenly I started to develop sleep problems which led me to drop it all and focus on my health. I developed severe insomnia and tried everything from 300mg trazadone, 300mg soroquel, 3mg lunesta, 10mg ambien, 50mg zzyquil, 9mg melatonin and passion flower drops.

I was prescribed Soroquel after a trip to the ER. A nurse assessed me for about 1 hour and spoke with a psychiatrist over the phone. To my great surprise, they diagnosed me as mixed bipolar (whatever that means) and gave me soroquel for sleep. I began at 50mg, then moved up to 100, 200 and eventually 300 as prescribed by my psychiatrist. The side effects were horrific. I had night sweats, jittery hands, chest pain, lower back pain, numb arms and feet, twitches, you name it.

I finally told me psychiatrist that I couldn't handle it anymore and so he prescribed me zyprexa 10mg for sleep. I am actually able to sleep on zyprexa however I never feel tired or sleepy. I just take my pill around 10pm-12am and wake up 6-7 hours later without remembering falling asleep. It's like having amnesia. All i want is to feel sleepy and be able to rest on my own. It's been so long since I've been able to naturally fall asleep, 3 months to be exact. Has anyone here been prescribed zyprexa strictly for sleep and if so what dosage was effective for them?

I'm looking to take a new antidepressant and I was wondering also, if anyone knows of a good antidepressant that makes you feel like napping or sleeping? I want to feel sleepy so bad!

I appreciate any and all sincere suggestions, advice, personal stories, etc.

--In need of sleep

[IndieVisible]

The ambien would have done it for me. Higher doses of benzos work for me but docs don't want to prescribe the stuff that actually works. Sorry sarcasm but it is frustrating having to go thru their list of meds to try paying a co-payment to see them every time it doesn't work.

[trumanshow]

Originally Posted by AROCH

Hello everyone!
I am new to this website and this is my first posting. So please bear with me if i sound scattered!

I began feeling really depressed and anxious back in May, just a few weeks before I graduated from university. It got so bad that I started to take Xanax .25mg as needed to reduce my anxiety, but this hardly helped.
At the suggestion of my Primary physician, I reinstated my Lexapro at 10mg after I had successfully been off of it for 4 months. (I been on and off lexapro 20mg for the past 6 years). I had all these plans for traveling abroad and living overseas, but suddenly I started to develop sleep problems which led me to drop it all and focus on my health. I developed severe insomnia and tried everything from 300mg trazadone, 300mg soroquel, 3mg lunesta, 10mg ambien, 50mg zzyquil, 9mg melatonin and passion flower drops.

I was prescribed Soroquel after a trip to the ER. A nurse assessed me for about 1 hour and spoke with a psychiatrist over the phone. To my great surprise, they diagnosed me as mixed bipolar (whatever that means) and gave me soroquel for sleep. I began at 50mg, then moved up to 100, 200 and eventually 300 as prescribed by my psychiatrist. The side effects were horrific. I had night sweats, jittery hands, chest pain, lower back pain, numb arms and feet, twitches, you name it.

I finally told me psychiatrist that I couldn't handle it anymore and so he prescribed me zyprexa 10mg for sleep. I am actually able to sleep on zyprexa however I never feel tired or sleepy. I just take my pill around 10pm-12am and wake up 6-7 hours later without remembering falling asleep. It's like having amnesia. All i want is to feel sleepy and be able to rest on my own. It's been so long since I've been able to naturally fall asleep, 3 months to be exact. Has anyone here been prescribed zyprexa strictly for sleep and if so what dosage was effective for them?

I'm looking to take a new antidepressant and I was wondering also, if anyone knows of a good antidepressant that makes you feel like napping or sleeping? I want to feel sleepy so bad!

I appreciate any and all sincere suggestions, advice, personal stories, etc.

--In need of sleep

I wasn't taking zyprexa for sleep but for first episode psychosis but one of the side effects is that it does defiantly make you sleepy. I was taking 15mg but found that even at 10mg it would be enough to make me sleepy.