Eversince having schizophrenia I have a sleep disturbance I cant sleep without chemicals and I wake up at least once a night. Zyprexa + Mirtazapine was an excellent solution but I’ve been more than a year on Latuda and that goes not well with Mirtazapine, really, my advice don’t even try that combo. However I tried to get off Mirtazapine but that totally made me an insomniac and triggered depersonalization. Right now I’m taking 1/4 of 15mg Mirtazapine and that works well, though I’m still feeling really drowsy for 2-3 hours after waking up. I want to take another drug for my sleep disturbance, what do you guys take? Don’t mention antispychotics please, one antipsychotic is enough for me, don’t want/need additional of this ■■■■.
Latuda caused me to have horrible insomnia that nothing would help. Not sure if it’s contributing to yours or not? I am on Risperdal and Trileptal. For sleep, I use a 10mg dissolvable (under the tongue) Melatonin tablet. Seems to work OK. The thing that that helped me the most was getting off Latuda and upping my dosage of Trileptal although I know the Melatonin helps too. Good luck:) Being shorted on sleep sucks.
I also take vitamin b-6 , a trace of L-tryptophan and sometimes 1 mg of melatonin.
Lunesta works for me
I wake up 5-6 times in the middle of the night. My pdoc won’t give me anything for sleep unless I fix my sleep hygeine ie. Exercising, being active, etc. I told her I can’t cuz my negative symptoms too severe, but she won’t hear me tho.
What AP are you on?
I have the staff come into my room every night at 11:00 pm. and hit me in the head three times with a hammer until I’m unconscious. After that, I sleep like a baby.
But seriously. I just take Benydryl as a PRN.
Zyprexa
12.5 mg 151515
bump
C’mon guys I can’t be the only one who can’t sleep without shoving down a chemical down my throat…
What else is a good sleep aid…? Also, I changed my mind, maybe a low dose of an atypical antipsychotic is a good idea. (Right now I’m on 10mg Zyprexa to help me sleep but I want to get rid of Zyprexa because it also zombify’s me throughout the day and makes my negatives worse)
doxylaminine succinate+melatonin
Occasionally when I take my Seroquel at a later time, I’ll use melatonin to try and get myself to sleep. Other than that, I don’t really use sleep aids a lot except for my psychiatric medicine.
Try a zopiclone but don’t take it every night or it will loose effectiveness. That or zolpidem or one of the other sleepers.
Abilify and melatonin