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Re: sleep - melatonin, temazepam, bipolar manageme » survivin bpd

Posted by Jost on September 24, 2006, at 11:47:48

In reply to sleep - melatonin, temazepam, bipolar management, posted by survivin bpd on September 23, 2006, at 23:11:14

Hi.

I can't say much about bipolar per se. I do know, though, that recent studies suggest that melatonin is not effective for insomnia.

(It may help with jetlag, but not insomnia.)

There's a new product, Rozerem, which is a melatonin agonist-- ie gets your brain to produce more melatonin a few hours after your take it. It doesn't work for me, but it does seem to help some. It's a prescription med.

Don't know about melatonin and your meds, but my pdoc definitely didn't want me to take it with Parnate. That's an MAOI-- an AD that has a lot of drug interactions-- so that might be a very different case--but suggests that melatonin is not a completely non-problematic drug.

Maybe you could ask your pdoc about melatonin, or rozerem.

Jost


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