Psychiatrist won't give me sleeping pills?

Thanks Velcro. Yuk-be careful!

Do you wake up feeling refreshed? Any fatigue throughout the day worse or better since taking it?

My T, who is also a pdoc, put in a referral for me. I know my GP would have also put in the referral - the 2 of them talked and decided that for the T to do it. So it kind of depends on your area of the world, the support circle you have going, and your insurance. You might check with the pdoc first and just say something about needing to see if there is a biological reason for the issues... ect.

I go for toast or oatmeal or milk (not warm) - something light but filling.

Yoga - happy baby pose usually helps me most.

Doesn't he want to prescribe sleeping pills at all, or just no benzo's? If the latter, you might ask to try a low dose of an antipsychotic such as Quetiapine (Seroquel).. Olanzapine (Zyprexa) helped me sleep, but I've never heard of it prescribed as a sleeping aid (it was prescribed to me as an antispsychotic, as was Clozapine, which also helps me sleep)

The benefit of sleep-inducing antipsychotics is that you can use them every night, whereas benzo's lose their efficiacy if you take them too often.

There was a position paper that came out about a year and half ago on the use of APS, they may help you sleep short term but long term they alter the brain and sleep architecture in very bad ways so it has been passed to psychiatrists do not use APS as first line treatment for insomnia .

Doxepin as some one brought up is similar to Trazdone however it has been a very big failure as an anti depressant , but it has been studied extensively and is sedating and is a positive effect on sleep and the brain , it was repatened last year as a medication for sleep , I hate big pharma did I mention big pharma sucks OK that's out of the way , they repatened in the name... inspired by the song silent night as Silenor, however if you are independently wealthy Silenor is for you, for the rest of us( oh that's punny) just use small dose's of Doxepin . Or if you have real problems most pulmonologist have cross trained in areas of sleep medicine beyond that find one of 6000 licensed (doesn't mean they are doing patient care , lots do just research in labs) a sleep pathologist who is a Physician that is board certified in sleep disordered medicine and can look at your sleep and figure out what's going on when it shouldn't be , now go to sleep it's late and daylight savings time is just another bank without any cashiers or customer service . I hope this helps in some way .

there was a big to do a little while back when a meta-analysis showed an increased risk of death from all sorts of causes (including cancer) in those who used sleeping pills. scary...

having said that, if you can't sleep and its making you have problems, that should be addressed. ive had better luck with female shrinks than male shrinks. male shrinks seem to give controlled substances to rich people and/or the ladies. female shrinks aren't as rough on their patients and they give better pills ((personal opinion)).

doxepin, trazadone, seroquel, low dose thorazine, hydroxyzine, gabapentin, I think docs in some countries use promethazine for sleep...

you have options. i think you just need a new doctor, honestly.