Posted by Sad Panda on January 22, 2004, at 6:00:40
In reply to Re: Anxiety and Lamactil + Rumination, posted by Tony P on January 20, 2004, at 6:29:34
> I am now getting insomnia, occasional depression, rumination esp. at night (anxiety & pointless revolving thoughts about what I'll do in future about...), some hypomania and angry/resentful thoughts which my hypomania is leading me to act on when perhaps I should let sleeping dogs lie....
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> Additional clonazepam helps, but I'm already probably taking more than I should be. I missed my pdoc and MD appointments last week as I was a)in a depression b) couldn't find my 2003 datebook and didn't care to phone.
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> Anyone else been there, especially the insomnia and rumination?
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> Tony PI'm not on Lamicital, but for most of my life I have been troubled by ruminations/revolving thoughts before trying to get to sleep. I have taken up to 60mg of Temazepam or 40mg of Valium without them giving me sleep. It use to take me roughly 2 hours of tossing & turning & thinking before getting to sleep before I discovered Remeron. 15mg of Remeron turns off my mind & gives me the best sleep I have ever had in my life & my bed no longer looks like an animal has slept in it. Remeron sleep is mostly induced by it being a powerful anti-histamine, all the tertiary tricyclics are anti-histamines, the strongest of them would be Doxepin.
Cheers,
Panda.
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