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Re: HELP! Middle of the night waking - can't fall back asleep


Posted by Taylor on July 31, 2000 at 15:23:45:

In Reply to: HELP! Middle of the night waking - can't fall back asleep posted by maryanna on July 31, 2000 at 09:30:17:

What you are describing sounds like insomnia due to depression (not having enough serotonin to keep you asleep all nigth long). On the other hand, you mentioned that you were taking (at differetn times I assume) two different antidepressants, and it didn't seem to help. I am not too familiar with Serezone, but I believe that would normalize your serotonin. The antidepressants do take a while to "kick in". SSRI's take about 2-3 weeks and I don't know how long for the others. If you haven't been on it for more than a month, maybe relief is still on the way (ask your doctor how long it takes to kick in). There are also other types of SSRI's besides Paxil - Prozac, zoloft, celexa just to name a few. Perhaps you would have better luck with them.

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