Posted by falconman on January 24, 2007, at 9:59:51
In reply to Re: Klonopin/sleep » falconman, posted by laima on January 24, 2007, at 8:54:22
> Thanks loads for helping me. I thought it must mess with cycles 3+4 as essentially it is a benzo. Because it seems to be used more than most other benzo's for sleep(probably due to anticonvulsant properties as you said), I thought maybe it didn't mess with sleep architecture quite as much. Now I want to work out what I might be missing out on. In other words, what the purpose of cycle 3+4 are.
Thanks again> I understand it DOES act like the other benzos in terms of sleep. Another thing about it, it lasts all night. As an anticonvulsant, it can calm restless legs, stuff like that- but the trade off is sleep cycles are messed up. I had a couple of sleep studies while on klonopin, and showed very, very, very little stage 3 or 4.
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> > I've read that benzo's affect your sleep cycle. Typically stage 2 is increased whilst the deep sleep of stages 3 and 4 are decreased. Not good. However I've got the impression from somewhere that clonazepam does not behave like the other benzo's in this regard? Isn't it the benzo of choice for insomnia? Does it affect deep sleep?
> > Can somebody help me out here?
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