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Honestly, I held out so long talking to my doc about insomnia. I was pretty miserable due to it, I’d get 5-6 hours of sleep a night. Once I talked to my doc and got some meds to help, holy shit what a change! Now I’m getting a full 8 hours and I’m so much happier throughout the day
What meds? I tried zopiclone and found the hangover significantly worse than just dealing with the sleep deprivation
Zopiclone didn’t work too well for me, so he put me on gabapentin and that was moderately good. Finally I’m on trazodone and this is working great.
Damn, got my hopes up. Don't get me wrong I'm super glad trazodone works for you, but man it seems like every insomnia treatment "success story" I've heard goes the same way: "tried x, tried y, tried traz which worked great". I know it shouldn't, but it makes me really disheartened since trazodone failed miserably for me. Where other meds did nothing at all, traz put me in a fugue zombie like state where I was uncomfortably tired, but if anything even more incapable of actually sleeping. The sleep specialist I was seeing gave up on me so I'm just kinda raw dogging life now.
Which ones have you tried? I have quite a few friends that are docs or in residency and really just want to pass on something that can make peoples lives better.
Honestly I don't fully remember, this was all back in 2019 and my memory is pretty shit. Gabapentin sounds very familiar so I'm guessing that was one of them, other than that and the traz, I tried two others but I can't recall the name of them. I also was on seroquel as a kid; it wasn't primarily for sleep but felt it worth mentioning since it basically felt like super trazodone, in a bad way.
Does weed help you at all?
It's better than nothing, but not really. It's a massive help for preventing migraines though, I'll give it that lol.
I really want to sleep more than 5-6 hours per night, but I also really do not want to rely on GABAergics/benzos for sleep. Besides, doctors in my country will rarely prescribe them anyway.
I have quietiapine in low dosage (25 mg) it helps my head relax and get me out of the brain monologue that usually keeps me awake.
Gabapentin is a lot different from Benzos in terms of addiction potential. Same with trazodone I highly recommend them just for how much they’ve helped