Posted by notfred on October 28, 2006, at 10:35:01
In reply to Re: Lunesta » notfred, posted by yxibow on October 28, 2006, at 1:15:12
> 6.. wow... I don't think my psychiatrist would start out at that :). That's like 30mg of Ambien or something. I did once take 25mg of Ambien, not much difference.
>I see a top psycopharmacologist, he is the first doc to have recognized I am a fast metabolizer.
It is nice to not be limited the standard PDR dose or at least being able to quickly move to the higher ranges indicated
by the monograph. I burn up normal doses too fast for them to often be effective, for some drugs.My pdoc is/or did do research w/Lunesta. He was telling me about a conference he went to, there may be a change in the dosage indications for this drug.
I would not compare it to Ambien, the half lives are very different. The indications are different,
It does not seem Ambien CR is really more effective in stopping early waking.Of course I did not start at 6. Lunesta did not work for me till I went to 6 mg, I started at 3. I don't have any real sig. hangover, I just woke up from 8 hrs sleep and am typing on the laptop w/i 10 mins of waking.
I just checked, I have been on lunesta for 10 months now (I have been saying 7, which was a guess). In the past I have avoided true hypnotics for sleep for several reasons.
1) They all cause speech problems. I have a background in speech pathology so I am very sensitive to fluency and articulation problems,
most people might call this slurring ones words.
I always have it, usually after waking, on hypnotics. It tends to happen a bit during the day
and although very minor, I do not suspect people notice, but it drives me crazy.
2) memory problems
3) Interaction with PRN Ativan, increasing common benzo side effects.Lunesta is not causing any of this yet, & at 10 months it is getting quite likely it is not going to happen. Ambien most likely would not either; it is just too short acting to work for me.
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