Posted by utopizen on February 10, 2004, at 15:40:56
Stuffy nose last night after taking 30mg of Remeron for the first time to make me go to sleep. I got very drowsy, but not sleepy enough to pass through stage 2.
Trazodone worked over the summer, but then I switched to Ambien because I found the early morning grogginess terrible as a morning person. I've tried my leftovers of it before, and it didn't work-- it just gave me a stuffy nose to stare at the ceiling with instead.
And now the Remeron gives me a stuffy nose. All this *with* a $90 nasal+throat irrigation machine I use.
And it didn't even put me to sleep, only my spare 1mg's of Risperdal that I was given for social anxiety a year ago worked, after taking 2mg.
Doc won't prescribe Ambien-- excessive doses of Desoxyn, no problem. Ambien? Uh-oh, I'm not comfortable, how about Elavil?
Okay, Remeron, Trazodone... stuffy nose... my guess is other trycyllics will cause a... can you guess... a stuffy nose?
And what happened 3 minutes after I tell him Trazodone gives me a stuffy nose? "Well, maybe we could try Trazodone again."
"But it gives me a stuffy nose, and it doesn't work!"
"Well, it worked before, didn't it?"
"Well, not anymore!"
"Well, can I at least have some Sonata in case Remeron doesn't put me to sleep? I have black marks under my eyes that make me look like I'm either dead or a dying insomniac or have a black eye, none of which are appealing to society."
"Why Sonata?"
"It has a 4-hour half life. I could try to avoid it, in case the Remeron works, and then take it half-way through the night in case it didn't."
"I'm not sure"
"How about a very low quantity? Like 3 doses? Emergency supply?"
"I don't think so. We want to limit the number of different drugs you're taking.
"And Remeron will help your anxiety (code word for "I think you're depressed, and that's why you have trouble sleeping, and even if I gave you Ambien, I still need to give you an anti-depressant somehow anyway").
Anyway, it's 5PM, and I'm still groggy. How is this suppose to make people feel less depressed? If I wasn't depressed yet, I certainly will be now. No wonder why docs skimp out on the Ambien and give you these. If they suspect depression, they'll get it-- these things make you feel so terrible, you'll go back and tell them you're depressed, and they'll be like "I knew it! Yay for me!"
In reality, I would be depressed only because my insomnia wasn't properly treated. Untreated insomnia after 6 weeks is clinically linked to depression.
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