Spontaneous remission

[liveweyerd]

I have had insomnia forever it seems. Then after traumas, there were night terrors. I cannot take any of the hypnotics/sedatives as they activate the nightmares.

But over the last 6 weeks I have been sleeping fine and stopped taking the trazadone for sleep...over a period of time...I had been skipping it because of the morning grogginess and vivid dreaming.
So last time I saw shrink I told her I was sleeping and that I had stopped the trazadone because of the nightmares and that they were troubling because in them I was often violent.

We slightly raised my anti-anxiety med and took me off sleep drugs. Instaneously.....no more nightmares and NO MORE COLD SWEATS!
I have slept in/through cold sweats for so long I just accepted it.
I mean this development is so awesome to me. I have sweated all night for over 10 years. I didn't know how uncomfortable and disruptive it is until it suddenly stopped.

I do believe that in switching to physical employment, a regular schedule and simplifying, de-stressing my life has much to do with my newfound ability to sleep.
And it surely is related to the fact that I am the least depressed I have been for most of the last two decades.
But I just wanted to celebrate a bit. I didn't know what I was missing!

It is a minor miracle! YAY!!!

[Lizrox]

I'm really glad your sleeping; I wish i could..

Even 450mg (yes 450mg) of Trazadone didn't help me.

Liz

[liveweyerd]

WOW! Liz!

But you are still on rebound from the meds you were taking.

I have switched to remeron. But only because I need that 2d anti-d.

Hubby has trouble sleeping but he has been prescribed alot of narcotics and pain killers due to spinal problems.

I know that when I went off xanax...nothing put me to sleep. But then, I never should have stopped taking them in the first place. I was prescribed them and not abusing them...I just got scared about all the talk on the board about them.

I find what works best with me for sleep really is benedryl...the generic equivalent.
Heard a pharmist tell hubby this too.

Can you time your klonopin so that you take your highest dose at bedtime?

Breathing meditation is a life saver for me, too.

[Lizrox]

The remeron used to knock me out but it doesn't anymore. I am on 45mg along with Klonopin and Neurontin. I take that ALL at bed time. I have such a high tolerance nothing is working. I have tried benedryl, didn't work. I have been on Ambien, Sonata, Lunesta; nothing works. I don't know what my problem is?

Liz

[liveweyerd]

Damn, I am scared of most of those things! I had a psychotic reaction to Sonata. Ambien gave me night terrors. I tell my p-doc I won't touch a hypnotic. I am on such a low dose of remeron I can't tell anything...but I am sleeping good anyway.

But, really, when I would run out of xanax out of country...I wigged, no sleep at all, even when I tapered, and then tapered with valium...no sleep.

But p-doc got mad at me for taking myself off them...I did it because things I had read on the boards scared me, I thought I was addicted. I am not, but I am dependent. Any long term use of that drug will make anyone dependent.

But, yes, the rebound of no sleep is viscious. I don't know what would help.
Seroquel helped my hubby for awhile. But nothing works for long for him....he has such a high tolerance.

How long have you been not sleeping?

[Bozo]

Originally Posted by liveweyerd

stopped taking the trazadone for sleep...over a period of time...I had been skipping it because of the morning grogginess and vivid dreaming.

Im still taking Trazodone, 50 mg at night. I too continue to have very bizarre dreams and quite groggy in the morning. I might stop taking it soon myself.

[liveweyerd]

(((((((Bozo)))))))

I really suggest you ask about the remeron.

I've missed you!
How are you?

Hubby and I both have those vivid dreams with the trazadone and mine were becoming upsettingly violent.
P-doc says the remeron is a far more natural drug and is associated with melatonin.

I won't do trazadone anymore. Add that to my long list of No, I won't take that. LOL

hugs again!
Tena

[Bozo]

Thank you and it also wonderful to see you posting as well. I do not have trouble falling asleep, it is waking up in the middle of the night, and then not being able to sleep. That reminds me. I am going to start another post here about what I was thinking last night. Hugs again to you too!!!!!