Posted by mav27 on February 21, 2009, at 10:59:48
In reply to Re: Seroquel for Sleep Augmentation? Parnate Insomnia » AlexCanada, posted by myco on February 21, 2009, at 10:52:12
My experiance is different
For me if i try and force myself to stay awake for some reason like i've changed my mind about going to sleep then my head will feel cloudy.. but otherwise i just drop off to sleep nicely. I wake up about 8 hours later and the only thing that tells me i even took the stuff is a slightly dry mouth.
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> Seroquel feels somewhat similar to trazodone, if youve taken that one. It's not a nice easy relaxing drop into sleep...I like to say, regarding these two (seroq & traz), that they are like "elephant darts". It feels like a very high dose sedative antihistamine...it comes on slow, mild headache perhaps (for me), slight feeling of warmth, heart may speed up a little, nose gets stuffy (for me)...everything just intensifies...all movement ability and thinking slow way day and you crash out like a light. Waking up the initial first week or two is similar to trazodone...the morning feels like you are "slow", mildly 'retarded' lol (no mean to offend), kind of groggy-like or somepeople say feels "hungover". this may last a few hours into the next day, depending on when you take it at night. People who like seroquel and traz are very fond of them and others hate them. Seroquel is safe with maois and a good call for very severe insomnia that benzo's and pseudo-benzos wont touch.
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> > Hello I am on Parnate 25mg (was 20mg) since few days ago. I also take 5mg Ritalin 3-4 times a day as well as Valium 10mg twice daily.
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> > Insomnia on Parnate on 10mg, 20mg and other doses has been very SEVERE to the point of recieving only average 2.5 hours sleep a day.
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> > Risperidone (Risperdal) 0.5mg and 1mg have helped somewhat initially but that effect seemed to have dropped off expecially when I rose my 20mg Parnate to 25mg and it is tremendously difficult to sleep now. Ugh, maybe I need to go back down to 20mg Parnate for the time being.
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> > My doctor told me Seroquel is a good idea if Risperidone doesn't work and... here in Canada we dont have Ambien, Lunesta, and Zipricone doesn't work for me regardless of dose.
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> > So What can I expect from Seroquel 25-50mg? I dont need it for any depression augmentation just sleep. Weight gain if it happens would be nice though. Will I be super sleepy during the day or will it only effect me for a 8-10 hour sleep period? PLEASE offer any insight ASAP as I may have to cancel any plans made for the coming week.
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