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Depressed with insomnia since end july 16

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paul52702
paul52702

Prescribed zopiclone and amitryline. worried about taking too much.

any advice appreciated. 

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  • tess33005
    tess33005 paul52702

    Posted

    Hi Paul - I've been on both, years ago.

    I can understand your worries - zopiclone is addicive and amitriptyline zonks you out. However, your doctor prescribed them so I think you should give them a chance. Your doctor will help you to taper off them when you're better. May I ask what dose of each you've been prescribed?

    love Tess x

    • paul52702
      paul52702 tess33005

      Posted

      Hi Tess 

      7.5 for zopiclone, 5 mg diazepam 3 times a day which dont always take as worried by them. Do get panic attacks. Currently with crisis mental heallth team who have prescribed those. 

      GP  gave me citlaprom and amitryline which they have taken me off.

      Think am being returned to GP end of week - what will he do, put me back on them??

      I'm 68.

      Getting worried.

      Paul x

    • paul52702
      paul52702 tess33005

      Posted

      Hi Tess

      7.5 zopiclone 5 mg diazepam. was presribed these by mental health team. GP  had given me amitryline and citalaprom but had taken me off them.

      Paul x Age 68 worried by their addictiveness.

    • paul52702
      paul52702 tess33005

      Posted

      Hi Tess - any edxperience of miirzapine - may get this end of week?

      x Paul

  • lily65668
    lily65668 paul52702

    Posted

    Zopiclone is highly addictive for some people. You also develop tolerance to it very quickly, so the same dose soon stops working. If you feel you really need it, you should only take it for a couple of nights at a time, to relieve your anxiety about insomnia, and then wait about a week before going on it for another two or three nights. Even if you don't sleep well in the intervening periods, this won't do you any harm. There's no harm either in stopping and starting the zopiclone.

    However, you shouldn't stop or reduce the amitriptyline without your doctor's advice, as withdrawal from this medication can cause problems.

    • paul52702
      paul52702 lily65668

      Posted

      Any experience of mirzapine - may be getting this end of week

      Paul

  • borderriever
    borderriever paul52702

    Posted

    paul

    Amytriptalene can be used for many things including to help with sleep, it is an antidepressent., Hopefully you will not need to take them for to long. I take this medication to suppress nerve damage caused by PSA , I take 75mg every night and they can overlap and make you sleepy into the morning as you get out of bed.

    I hope they work for you, I will be on them now for my life

    • borderriever
      borderriever paul52702

      Posted

      Ask tessa

      She may be able to advise on this on.

      When you go to your GP He will decide on what medication would suit the condition you have there are many medications out ther that a GP may not wish to give you

      Amytrptalene in my case is a good medication as it has other uses. There are other drugs that are claner than above. 

      Somtimes I feel here and other places medications seem to be a fashion statement, and not the best drug for peopls condition. To be honest and trust me when I say, It is a wondrful situation we find ourselves  in after a long journey finding actual medications that atually suit us. In my case it took over two years to get on the right mixture of medications.

      I personally do not look byond the medications I take, I learnt my lesson quite a few years ago, and I am now happy in my own skin regards my Doctors and Specialists choices after the long and sometimes nasty contrindiation I had in the past

      The saying- If it is ok dont fix it cmes to mind

  • paul52702
    paul52702

    Posted

    Further info from Paul - feeling will be prosecribed mirzapine end of week - anyone exoerience of this? sounds horrendous
  • darren13136
    darren13136 paul52702

    Posted

    its hard mate, stay strong. use the meds at last resort but dont beat yourself up.

     

  • Reddave8
    Reddave8 paul52702

    Posted

    Hi, I've previously been prescribed Zopiclone for my insomnia, which I personally found didn't have the desired effect with me. It was only as a result of meeting a Pharmacist at Gobowen hospital, who informed me that as I'm a long term prescribed Morphine taker that this Med is nullifies the Zopiclone hence it wouldn't work.

    You may need to check whether any other meds you are on can have the same unwanted side effect! 

    I wish you well from a fellow sleepless suffer.

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