Lofepramine anyone?

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i feel that now im on the 105mg its even harder to sleep at night. and thats with zopiclone and ive been taking .5 loraz again at bed time to get to sleep.

Are you still on doxepin too? If so, how much?

been lying in bed since 5 am took another .5 loraz at 6.30 am. just feel the depression is getting worse.

It is getting worse from a lack of sleep and the affect of the two benzodiazepine active meds, plus maybe rebound insomnia if you stopped the doxepin recently.

off to see my cpn this morning. quite a young woman and i dont really gel with her

Solving the insomnia issue should be the number one priority. Progress is going to be difficult until it is.

[Sober2000june]

ive never been on doxepin

[Sober2000june]

was told by cpn is should go upto 140mg as psych suggested last week

[Sober2000june]

thanks for your continual support Ian.

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ive never been on doxepin

Oops. Should have paid more attention when I scrolled back to the beginning of the thread.

Doxepin is one of the sedating antihistamines, or antidepressants - also trazodone and mirtazapine - that in low doses would be better sleep aids than zopiclone and lorazepam.

[Sober2000june]

anyway, thats me stared 140mg today. hopefully start to get some progress.

[Sober2000june]

Im going to try and stick to my docs plan of getting settled on lofepramine and get rid of the other 2

[Sober2000june]

Just very lonely and unnerving when i appear to be the only person on this med on this site

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Just very lonely and unnerving when i appear to be the only person on this med on this site

Most doctors believe antidepressants begin and end with SSRIs, SNRIs and maybe mirtazapine with a growing, nutz imho, trend to go to antipsychotics if there isn't a response, not a TCA, or MAOI. Even when TCAs are considered it is usually the serotonergic amitriptyline and imipramine, not the noradrenergic lofepramine, desipramine and nortriptyline. Lofepramine seems to be the preferred NA TCA in the UK, its biggest market.

[Sober2000june]

well thats 3 days on 140mg. 1st day was quite good, second bit less so and today a bit harder. here's hoping for more improvements.