Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
So i started taking .5mg and then 1.0mg of lorazepam for sleep. I take 1 mg in addition I take 2-4 unisom and a night cap. that JUST helps me sleep. I have a doctors appointment the 24th with my primary doctor. I cant remember when I didnt have trouble falling asleep. I have at least for the last 8 years always taken over the counter medications.
Has anyone found that taking an anti depressant in addition to something that induces sleep such as lorazepam helps more so than just one or the other? I just hate piggy backing with otc meds and a night cap just to get some sleep.
Thanks
Stephanie
Has anyone found that taking an anti depressant in addition to something that induces sleep such as lorazepam helps more so than just one or the other? I just hate piggy backing with otc meds and a night cap just to get some sleep.
Thanks
Stephanie
Be sure to ask your doc what underlying condition the meds are treating. The answer should not be sleep.
Sleep, or the lack of it, is only the symptom. Something else is going on deeper that is interrupting it. Depression? Anxiety? Something physical?
If you stay focused on identifying and treating that true underlying cause, your sleep stands to improve.