Posted by inanimate peanut on July 14, 2010, at 23:28:05
This is ridiculous. It's time to go to bed and I don't even want to go. This is how last night went.
midnight: took
12.5mg ambien CR,
8mg perphenazine,
300mg seroquel,
30mg nortriptyline (this was actually taken about 10pm so I could monitor before bed)tried to go to sleep at 12:30-- no luck
1am: took 2mg ativan
2am: took 1/2 ambien CR
3am: took 2mg ativan
sometime around 4:30 actually sleptI'm going to run out of my ambien before it's allowed to be refilled because I keep having to take 1.5 per night! I can't take more perphenazine because it makes me depressed. I would like to get off the perphenazine altogether as I think even the 8mg makes me somewhat more depressed, but then I would never ever sleep! I was thinking of cutting my dose of seroquel and seeing if a lower seroquel dose would actually be more sedating. I was thinking of adding Benadryl, but the would be a 6th medicine just for sleep!! I'm hoping when the nortriptyline gets higher it will be more sedating. At what dose is nortriptyline sedating? I was also thinking of maybe switching back to Lunesta-- I was doing better on it until my insurance started refusing to pay. I think though that I have a good case to appeal to the insurance company as to all I've tried to sleep! Otherwise, does anyone have any ideas? I'm scared to go to bed because I know it's going to happen again tonight and I'm just going to toss and turn and keep adding ativan or ambien each hour until 5am or so. This sucks. It's one thing that we can't get my meds to control my depression-- it's another that we can't even get them to get me to sleep at night! And, yes, I exercise. I actually taught quite a tough aerobics class tonight-- we did alot of intervals so all of us were exhausted. Any suggestions that will help me sleep would be appreciated!
poster:inanimate peanut
thread:954532
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