Posted by Samantha on November 11, 2009 at 06:47:42:

I was contemplating the idea of asking my docotor for a short course of Zopiclone. I had them several months ago (seven day course only) and I only took them for the one week but they really helped me get my sleeping back on track, only now winter is here and the insomnia is back to being bad again. I was given them via the hospital last time (had a mania episode thanks to chronic insomnia and a bad reaction to citalopram)and I have a feeling my GP will refuse to prescribe them becasue she thinks I will get addicted and she hates prescribing sleep meds or anything that ends in PAM and has any Z's in it.

I know I will only take them for emergencies for example I work part time, so maybe on one or two work nights and I wouldn't keep going back for more (I built up tolerance very quickly anywat) but try telling the doctor that. She will probably try to treat me for haemoroids or something, anything other than insomnia. I was looking to see if I could bypass the doctor by buying them online and I came across this website called buy-sleeping-tablets and they aer offering two free generic Zopiclones (to prove their tablets are as good as the main brand apparently)plus instructions on how to order sent with the free samples. I filled it in (duh) without thinking it through. Does this sound dodgy? If they arrive should I bin them or maybe try a quarter of a tablet and go off the proviso that if I don't get ill or die they are fine? I am just starting to panic a bit about my anxiety/insomnia (where once again going to bed/sleeping/getting enough sleep) pops into my head, shall we say about every 6 seconds or so and I would feel better by just having the zopiclone in my home. I still have 7 diazepam tablets in my cupboard since my last bad episode and I haven't been tempted to touch them for months.

Also, is it OK to take say a diazepam or 3.75mg of Zopiclone (half a regular tablet I think) with my prescribed evening dose of 25mg of Seroquel? I was put on the Seroquel after I had finished my course of zopiclone but the sleepiness effect of the Seroquel seems to have stopped now! I feel like I am getting in a medication pickle and also on top of this (shamed now) I have started drinking two shots of strong alcohol with my Seroquel tablet before bed and I still lie awake for hours!

I have just read this and realised it sounds pretty bad, but I would do anything to avoid that horrible panic and terror of being up all night and alone, and the alcohol relaxes me and enables me to at least lie down with my eyes closed instead of tearing out my hair and screaming (it's not fair on my husband or my neighbours).I really can't go through that again.

Thank you for anybody that's takent the time to read this. I value your input and to be honest, I have nobody else to discuss this with. My husband is terrified of me having another psychotic episode so I don't overly worry him with my concerns (he too struggles to get to sleep but he can cope with it unlike me) and I have no friends as such with whom I can talk to. My problems have seen off any friends I had/could have made.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Is this a bad idea? F43 17:23 11/12/09 (0)
• Re: Is this a bad idea? unwind 11:37 11/11/09 (2)
  • Re: Is this a bad idea? Samantha 11:51 11/11/09 (1)
    • Re: Is this a bad idea? unwind 12:24 11/11/09 (0)
• Re: Is this a bad idea? Sandman 09:33 11/11/09 (1)
  • Re: Is this a bad idea? Samantha 11:26 11/11/09 (0)

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