Posted by randermin on March 4, 2007, at 19:24:29
In reply to Feeling great, then one night of insomnia ruins ev, posted by linkadge on March 1, 2007, at 20:05:50
> I just start to get to feeling a better, then for some reason I miss a night of sleep, and it always triggers a horrable and prolonged relapse of depression anxiety which can throw me off for days and days.
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> I don't know how to stop the cycle. Perhaps I am asking too much, but I need to sleep every night.
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> What do people find is the best way to take charge of sleep?
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> I mean, if I know that I am not going to sleep, what is the best course of action?
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> Insomnia makes me feel so helpless.
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>Insomnia sucks, it makes me paranoid, irritable, just sh*tty. lets see, seroquel had the same bad effect on me.
trazodone is not nearly as bad, but still a similar effect so I dont use it. I've tried miratazipine, ambien, lunesta,
chloral hydrate, etc. In the end I've found that the best I can do is establish an "old faithful" benzo, and then
work on non-drug methods and try not to take it so hard when I still dont get sleep. my main weapons now are
a huge lightbox, occasional chronotherapy, and getting out of the house as much as possible, and klonopin.
my back ups are "snooze-in" which is a bunch of herbs plus melatonin from a vitamin store or ativan,
but I try and stay away from both of them. hope that helps somewhat. -o
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