Posted by unwind on November 11, 2009 at 11:37:14:

In Reply to: Is this a bad idea? posted by Samantha on November 11, 2009 at 06:47:42:

Have you read the drug insert information for Seroquel and Diazepam? These drugs should not be combined with alcohol and the risk (of not waking up) is much higher if you have a sleep-breathing disorder. Does your doctor know that you are mixing these drugs with alcohol before going to sleep? The drugs and alcohol together may be causing sleep-disordered breathing and producing their own self-perpetuating sleep disorder.

If you read the Zopiclone entry on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zopiclone, you might decide that you would be better off not starting Zopiclone.

Could you ask your doctor for a referral to a sleep clinic and find out if your insomnia is related to sleep-breathing instability? That doesn't mean that you won't have to deal with the learned insomnia but it might be a start. There is a lot of information on how to be quietly awake at night without panic or terror on this forum. Our insistence on 8 hrs of consolidated sleep may be an artifact of modern lighting, and a more normal pattern may be sleep interposed with periods of quiet wakefulness.

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• Re: Is this a bad idea? Samantha 11:51 11/11/09 (1)
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