Posted by baseball55 on December 30, 2012, at 19:40:33
In reply to Re:question for SLS pdoc just shot down sleep aids, posted by metamorphosis on December 30, 2012, at 16:49:26
I went for three nights without sleep on parnate after I stopped augmenting it with perphenazine (my p-doc really wanted me off perphenazine because of the potential EPS effects). When I called him, he told me to up the perphenazine again to 12mg and that helped me sleep. Then that stopped working and he agreed to add trazadone. The pharmacy wouldn't fill the scrip without talking to him first. But I take 100mg with no problem, have been for a few years. I find trazadone keeps me asleep but doesn't get me to sleep, so I take ativan or xanax to put me out. At first he was resistant to this because I've had addiction problems, but the insomnia was literally driving me crazy. I think I'm now benzo-tolerant and still have insomnia problems. I think I always will unless I stop parnate. But my depression has gotten so much less severe, that I'm planning on cutting back the parnate after the new year.
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