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Posted by traveler on May 29, 2004, at 18:35:18
Greetings all
I have horrible insomnia, made worse by anxiety about insomnia. I currently take 15 mg of prozac during the day,
I don't know how many of you can relate, but my day life works fine if I sleep - my problem is since I started taking sleeping pills (ambien) and benzos(ativan or klonopin, but not both) - I no longer sleep without them. What are some successful alternatives that people have used to stop this cycle of sedatives and start sleeping normally again? I feel like enough is enough...
thanks for any guidance
Posted by germanium20 on May 29, 2004, at 19:25:34
In reply to HELP - I am sick of sleeping pills benzos!!!!!!!, posted by traveler on May 29, 2004, at 18:35:18
Have you tried a different SSRI as prozac is supposedly the most activating of the SSRI's. The only problem with changing is it takes a long time to get it out of your system (5 weeks). Going to a different SSRIshouln't be as bad as going to a MAOI as there you definately have to wait the whole 5 weeks but you may get away with 2 weeks wait time going to anouther SSRI.
All the others should be less activating & allow you to sleep better.
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