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Re: Lab Rats

Posted by Patrick Richards on March 01, 2001 at 19:26:26:

In Reply to: Lab Rats posted by -O- on February 27, 2001 at 21:55:09:

I have sleep apnea and excessive daytime sleepiness and have spent over 2 years to solve this.

I am getting closer but have you had a sleep study. It is important to rule out sleep apnea and other possible causes seen in sleep studies.

Aside from that, since the treatment for sleep apnea is normally cpap, a machine to help me breath, it appears to knock out my deep sleep and disturb my sleep. I am checking on possible other missed diagnoses.

Since I do not get deep sleep I do not wake up refreshed. I have tried several antidepressants and it was mentioned to me and makes sense that sedative antidepressants can make my problem worse.

I did try celexa, paxil, wellbutrin, nortriplyine, klonopin, trazedone, dalmane, imipramine, remeron.

Remeron is very sedating and would not recommend this unless you are really depressed. If you have a sleep disorder the sedating ones are very hard to try. With remeron I could not stay awake for the first 5 days and when I stopped I could not sleep for 5 days.

Wellbutrin gives some people energy, not me. Trazedone and klonopin helped in getting to sleep quicker but this is not normally a problem for me.

Had tried a few sleeping pills, sonata which did not work well for me, ambien which got me quicker to sleep.

Need to check and rule out sleep disorders.

Some of the antidepressants I have tried above are in different classes so that is why I tried them but some drugs in the same class can react to a person differently.

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