Posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 13:13:36
In reply to Re: Sleep difficulty with MAOI, posted by Sailboat77 on May 15, 2011, at 0:59:55
Sailboat,
Zanaflex only helps. It's part of my cumulative approach to creating optimal conditions for sleep.
Sonata used to work wonderfully, so if you haven't tried it, it could work. Seems that sleep aids are reccommended for a week or so max, but my pdoc said no
problem to nightly use. Given it's fast action, it's useful for sleep onset problems or mid-night awakenings. A full eight hours of time isn't necessary. I could take it at 3:00, even 4:00 am and be good to go by 7:00 or (ideally) 8:00.(Hmmm. I might try it again for this
early awakenings that are now popping
up again....)I had dug up some studies suggesting sonata created less disturbance of sleep architecture--but I think that is still debatable. I believe benzo's change the
architecture quite a bit--but some sleep is far better than no sleep. It's just
something to factor into a long term
sleep strategy.There is a post on board right now about xyrem. That's considered by some to be heavy duty, and it's very controlled; however it is being carefully used by narcoleptics (with highly irregular sleep architecture to regulate) and off-label for others with chronic fatigue and other syndromes some success. It is suggested that it supports the most physically restorative stage of sleep (4?).
Good luck with this. I hope the parnate
is a long term helper for you, too.fb
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