attorneyaz
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Hello there,
I have been experiencing terrible insomnia for the past 6 weeks. I have suffered from anxiety and depression for almost 20 years and have been on different meds to treat it, but the insomnia was totally new. Psychiatrist put me on remeron and it gave me terrible nightmares at the 15 mg dose, so we lowered the dose to 7.5 mg and the nightmares went away, but the insomnia was back (I could fall asleep with remeron so long as I took 2 mg of klonopin with it, but still would only sleep 5 hours and be very tired the next day). So psychiatrist started me on trazadone and at both the 50 mg and 100 mg dosages I have ridiculous vivid dreams especially in the early morning hours. They are the type of dreams that you know are dreams while you are sleeping, but cannot make them stop and then you wake up in a panic and unrested. My psychiatrist switched me to the trazadone because she told me it did not cause nightmares of vivid dreaming (to the point where they dreams are very disturbing). The trazadone (along with klonopin) definitely helps me sleep (getting like 7.5 hours) but unless this vivid dreaming is going to go away, I do not think I can stay on it. Any thoughts on this? Any other recommendations. I have tried the regular sleeping pills and while they worked, but psychiatrist is very much opposed to using them because of long term side effects.
Thee has to be some ingredient similar in these two med that causes sedation but also screws with your dreams. I will say the trazadone is far more sedating than the remeron (hence, the longer sleep pattern). I am currently taking 75 mg of trazadone. Seeing psychiatrist on Monday and would like some additional options to present to her.
My psychiatrist and I are only focusing on sleep right night and will deal with residual depression and anxiety once my sleep issues are solved. I agree with this approach.
Any thoughts? Recommendations? Similar experiences?
I have been experiencing terrible insomnia for the past 6 weeks. I have suffered from anxiety and depression for almost 20 years and have been on different meds to treat it, but the insomnia was totally new. Psychiatrist put me on remeron and it gave me terrible nightmares at the 15 mg dose, so we lowered the dose to 7.5 mg and the nightmares went away, but the insomnia was back (I could fall asleep with remeron so long as I took 2 mg of klonopin with it, but still would only sleep 5 hours and be very tired the next day). So psychiatrist started me on trazadone and at both the 50 mg and 100 mg dosages I have ridiculous vivid dreams especially in the early morning hours. They are the type of dreams that you know are dreams while you are sleeping, but cannot make them stop and then you wake up in a panic and unrested. My psychiatrist switched me to the trazadone because she told me it did not cause nightmares of vivid dreaming (to the point where they dreams are very disturbing). The trazadone (along with klonopin) definitely helps me sleep (getting like 7.5 hours) but unless this vivid dreaming is going to go away, I do not think I can stay on it. Any thoughts on this? Any other recommendations. I have tried the regular sleeping pills and while they worked, but psychiatrist is very much opposed to using them because of long term side effects.
Thee has to be some ingredient similar in these two med that causes sedation but also screws with your dreams. I will say the trazadone is far more sedating than the remeron (hence, the longer sleep pattern). I am currently taking 75 mg of trazadone. Seeing psychiatrist on Monday and would like some additional options to present to her.
My psychiatrist and I are only focusing on sleep right night and will deal with residual depression and anxiety once my sleep issues are solved. I agree with this approach.
Any thoughts? Recommendations? Similar experiences?