Posted by sigismund on June 4, 2011, at 10:54:37
In reply to Re: hey » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on June 4, 2011, at 2:21:14
Well it can't be night *now*, because it is 1.30am here.
Valium has a stable plateau, unlike Xanax, so it is good for reducing insofar as anything is. But it's not great for sleep.
I never have trouble GETTING to sleep. I was asleep by 8pm, straight after dinner. What was really great was I slept 4 hours straight, rather than 2. It may have been the trytophan I took just before dinner that gave me such a long sleep.
When I wake I look at the clock......the later it is, the better. But really, I feel really revved up. So I take some TCM herbs, and then some zizyphus in a different form, and then some graviola. I'm not taking more benzos and it is too late for gabapentin and I don't want to take it anyway. I am going to ask my shrink for some temazepam for the early hours, just 10mg.
So that's how I deal with it, or don't.
Since you have a kid, you need to be in passable shape in the morning. Temazepam is not a bad drug. I can understand your doc wanting to have just one benzo.....but Valium is not great for sleep. We have temazepam in 10mg tabs. That's not much and would not really jack up my or your habit. You could postpone any morning benzo after getting some sleep the night before.
The options are just so poor. It's either benzos or something inhumane. I couldn't bear Remeron/mirtazepine. Amitriptylline(sp?)I took once in a 25mg dose. Never tried Seroquel. Trazodone we don't have. I could order it. Wouldn't mind a spot of priapism, but the reviews on askapatient are not encouraging. Zyprexa? (Thorazine?) This is a chronic problem. I dunno.
(On the subject of Thorazine, Lou Reed was given ECT to get rid of homosexual impulses. This explains the lines 'All of the drugs that we took, it really was lots of fun, but when they shoot me up with Thorazine and crystal smoke, you talk like the son of a gun'. Or something like that. Roy Harper was given ECT as a young man too. Bloody western paradigm.)
In 1974 I mentioned to my shrink (some things never change) that I had an exam coming up and wouldn't sleep. He gave me 2 Mandrax (Quaaludes) to take the night before. I took them and could hardly make it to bed. They were so much better. Better than bloody Valium for sleep, anyway
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