Posted by Joy on March 7, 2001, at 20:41:06
In reply to Re: Serzone Insomnia » Mary Ann, posted by terra miller on March 6, 2001, at 18:35:46
Serzone gave me terrible insomnia and agitation with crying jags. Prozac works much better for me. The problem adding Wellbutrin to Prozac is that it agitates seemingly a lot of people. My friend tried this combo after being on Prozac alone, and she was so speeded up in speech, etc. it was terrible. She had to drop the Wellbutrin. Now she's fine again just on Prozac 60 mg.
> > I have been on Serzone for about 2 weeks, gradually increasing my dose from 50 mg/bedtime to 200 mg/bedtime. My optimal dose will be 200 mg/bedtime and 100 mg/morning. When my dosage was at 100 mg/bedtime, I began having insomnia and bad dreams (I've woken up crying a few times) when I was finally able to sleep with the help of Benadryl. Has anyone else experienced this? What has worked with others? I have a call in to my P-doc to see what he recommends. I might switch back to Prozac and incorporate Wellbutrin (to combat the negative sexual side effects from Prozac). My P-doc said the Prozac/Wellbutrin was another option to the Serzone. Thanks for your help!
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> hi, i took serzone for quite a while using 300mg-350mg at bedtime so that i COULD sleep. splitting the dose made the morning dose knock me out. i haven't heard about not being able to sleep on serzone. but i do know that especially in the first weeks-months that serzone will really make you dream and remember the dreams. for me, i found that to be an asset to my therapy and we got a lot done. but mine were mostly dreams and not of the nightmare variety. i found ativan to be helpful if i had a nightmare and couldn't get back to sleep. probably what you are talking about is that increased-dream thing that's pretty common. it does get better. take care, terra. oh, the serzone doesn't have the sexual sideeffects like other meds do.
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