Posted by fachad on March 6, 2002, at 22:09:25
In reply to Re: Temazepam DOES NOT Work At All, posted by sleepingbeauty on March 6, 2002, at 18:37:53
A little more info helped me make sense of the total lack of result from temazepam.
After talking to my pdoc on Monday, he increased my temazepam to 30mg. It still did nothing.
Then I realized that I had been taking Ambien every night for about 8 months, and my body was just refusing to sleep without it, period.
So now I'm taking 5mg Ambien with the temazepam, and sleeping fairly well. In a few days, I'll try taking 2.5mg (quartering those tiny Ambien tablets is not easy), and then, if all goes well, no Ambien, just temazepam.
Less than 10mg of Ambien never put me to sleep before, and I'm sleeping OK on 5mg now, so I know the temazepam is doing something.
For your severe insomnia, have you tried doxepin or Remeron? They work so well for me but I am very sensitive to the weight gain from these meds.
But if you can tolerate them, they work extremely well. Better than Ambien, better than temazepam (so far anyway)and they last longer so they help with waking up too early. Also, people do not seem to develop tolerance to them like they do to BZ hypnotics.
I think the typical hypnotic dose of Remeron is 7.5 to 30mg, sometimes a higher dose having less hypnotic effect. The hypnotic dose of doxepin for me is 10mg but some people take up to 300mg.
Also, doxepin gives me sweet dreams - literally. I dream of eating jelly dougnuts and chocolate cake and ice cream with hot fudge...
> Ditto to the Temazepam not working!!!
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> I must be treatment resistant because Ambien and Sonata are like taking a placebo for me, does nada...anytime, any amount!
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> I finally just had to bite the bullet and take .50-1.00 mg of Xanax every night PLUS take 50 mg of Vistaril. Now at least I sleep a decent amount!
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> ~hence the name I chose for posting here....I only WISH I could sleep like her (sigh)~
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