My Geodon used to make me sleepy, but I've been on it for a couple of years now so it doesn't have that effect anymore. When I need to sleep I take over the counter meds and they work very well.

Any sleep meds given to me by RX...never worked.

I use Benadryl, or other OTC sleep aides , they seem to work better for me

When I was on Saphris it really helped me sleep..... I took it at bedtime and was asleep in 15 minutes... slept 8 hours and got up without a problem. Ambien gives me a horrible hang over and Lunesta just doesn't work for me. Saphris was the best.

Klonopin with a dash of hydroxyzine on tough nights

Nice topic Dee, I take 1mg clonazepam,150mg lamotrigine,50mg thorazine,10mgambien and 5mg.perphenazine........that's a real mouthfull.It obviously takes an A-bomb to put this bipolar brain down for a slumber.

(Dee, your Avi is MORE than a little bit disturbing!!! LOL!!!! I'm calling the cops on that snowy pervert!!!)

I'm afraid I AM on Seroquel (nothing else seems to work), but I also take 1 mg of Alprazolam.

Just 3 nights ago, I thought 'Maybe I don't need the Alprazolam' and so I skipped it.

I woke up feeling wide awake about four hours after falling asleep.
I did get back to sleep very quickly, but woke up again after a couple more hours and that time I DIDN'T fall back asleep.
Not until about 3 hours later when I gave up and took the Alprazolam.

At one time, I begged off the Seroquel because it was either that or have the wall removed to get in and out of the house.

I found that Thorazine worked great for me!!!!
Unfortunately, after about 6 or 8 months, I developed TD and the Pdoc whipped me right off of it and said I could never take it again.

I mentioned that to his psychiatric nurse once when she was the one seeing me and she blithely said, 'Oh, I can give you something else to keep that from happening!!'

So I guess it's an option even if it does give you TD. But I like my Pdoc's more cautious attitude a lot better.

Good luck finding a new sleep med, if that's what you're looking for!!!!

((((((((((Hugs))))))))))

I do also take seroquel, have for 11 years. But I still get transient sleeplessness, and I take a lunesta or a klonapin.

My BF is bipolar and he takes trazodone and that seems to work for him.

I find the Lamictal helps along with Seroquel and I take Restoril (benzo) as well.. I still haven't been sleeping that great lately either

i take a 100mg of trazodone and that works pretty good-however i find the best sleeping agent is a CLEAR CONSCIENCE!

Ambien can be precise if you time it right

I take zyprexa and ativan. before my period have to take two ativan.

Not for me seroquel helps me sleep

30mg. remeron. AWESOME for sleep and not a benzo. i have to take it w/ an antipsychotic, or it makes me clicko.

All my meds make me sleepy (I sleep too much tho-LOL!!) at bedtime I take: Risperdal (spelling??), Lamictal, Celexa, Klonopin every now and then. I need something to wake me up, maybe a 5 hour energy and a huge cup or coffee or something. Ugh, much too sleepy all day long :(

Seroquel, Depakote have helped me from time to time. Also Trazodone and Benedryl have helped me.