Re: Taking Xanax/Klonopin 0.25/05mg for almost 2 months
Originally Posted by
sab5330
I take prozac in the morning (10mg) but it’s so stimulating that I have trouble falling asleep.
How long have you been on 10mg?
I tried Seroquel and hated it. It made me feel too drowsy. Xanax/Klonopin take the edge off enough for me to be able to sleep and without making me feel like crap the next morning.
Ask your doctor to prescribe a small dose, 12.5-75mg, of immediate-release trazodone (Desyrel) instead. Trazodone is a AD which these days is mostly prescribed in sub therapeutic doses for SSRI/SNRI induced insomnia. It becomes progressively less sedating as the dose increases so taking more than 75mg is counterproductive. It has a shorter half-life than quetiapine (Seroquel) and sedates by different receptor pathways. It usually produces few side-effects beyond the sedation.
Ugh why do all good things have to come with the bad too :(
The Universe has a wicked sense of humour.
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