Strange suggestions from pdoc

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I was trying to switch from olanzapine to latuda. I did the switch but then had serious sleeping issues and had to give up on latuda after about 10 days because of lack of sleep coming off olanzapine.

So…I ask if I can get a sleepmedication to take with Latuda and try again. The only thing the pdoc team put on the table is 25mg nozinan for sleep. So I looked up nozinan to learn that it’s another antipsychotic. Why do they perscribe me a AP for sleep instead of a sleep med? Surely there must be less interaction between a sleep med and a AP then two AP’s?

I refused nozinan and basically said I would try anything for sleep except AP’s and AD’s. The reply from the pdoc team was basically that they refused to give me anything else.

Anyone else experience something like this?

They just reffered me to the sleep center claiming that olanzapine doesen’t cause sleep issues.

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My pdoc will only give me Doxepin or trazadone or visteril for when I can’t sleep

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My last pdoc didn’t want to give me clonazepam, but prescribed an AD called mirtazapine. Turned out it helped me even more than my last AD and also helps my sleep. So I benefitted both ways.

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I have not found a sleep med that gives me sleep without a hangover or heart palpitations. However, Seroquel antipsychotic works well for me.

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I’m on latuda and have insomnia.

I take imovane at night.

I was on nozinan for sleeping about twenty years ago so I know it’s also prescribed for sleeping.
It made me drewl and totally out of it.

Imovane is great except sometimes I only sleep a few hours on it.

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I get no hang over etc on imovane.

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Can I ask how much nozinan you took? They want to start me at 25mg which is the minimum doze, but I’m still sceptic. This particular AP is only approved for veterinarian purposes in some countries.

Imovane doesen’t work for me unfortunaly.

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I can’t remember what dose I was on.

I remember it had me drewling and hangover next day felt slow behind but it did help me to sleep because it has that effect.

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AP’s can be used for sleep ■■■■ anti depressants like trazodone are used for sleep basically anything that makes you tired they will prescribe it for sleep

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