So Many Patients Taking Seroquel For Insomnia - Try Melatonin.

Hi all, just noticed how many forum posts there are, from 'insomniacs' who have been prescribed antipsychotics like seroquel for sleep issues. Personally, I take a fair amount of medications for my bag of issues also, but just wanted to write something in the hopes it helps someone else.. Melatonin is the thing that makes the tired feeling, the yawn, the nap on the couch, the wake up tired and want to sleep more stuff sort of.. You can run out, deplete, have none, start with none, have a very limited internal supply that dwindles every day... Having always been a 'bad sleeper', I just assumed I didn't need much sleep like everyone ewe I knew..I worked hard and long hours and tired was never an issue.. I'd get exhausted physically and emotionally, mentally feel like hitting myself with a sledgehammer to turn off my brain so I could lay down and rest until I got some or no sleep each night, but it wasn't until I got to my early 30's that I was told I needed to start taking prescription melatonin every night, plus sleepers to get 4 hours or less once I drop off to sleep.. It's like a blink and I'm straight up and out of bed, firing on all cylinders and eyes wide open the very second I blink asleep and blink awake. Don't feel rested, but don't feel tired anyway... Seroquel might aid in sleep as a side affect, but I am also on that for other reasons and it's never helped me sleep, that's for sure.. So as much as I have all the worst side effects from the medications I have to take to live (ha ha on so many levels) I don't like seeing so many suffer seroquels dangerous issues when it's being used to hopefully assist with insomnia instead of anything else.. Don't bother with the herbal 'sleep aid' tablets off the shelf at the pharmacy either - regulations mean the melatonin content in each tab is something like 0.05mg, you take a bunch at a time, they cost heaps and you run out in a week and they don't do much at all anyway..

The brand most commonly known for melatonin is Circadin but I get it compounded into 6ml capsules, so I don't have to take 3 x2mg tablets every night just for the one Med. And it doesn't make you remain asleep, just makes it possible to fall asleep if you let it (conditions have to be right and you can easily overpower it..too expensive and necessary to waste so don't!).. And you build up tolerance to it also, which is crap because I'm already at half the max dosage per night and it's taking longer and longer to kick in. But I'm not increasing it for as long as possible. And have to continue imovane to get the actual few hours sleep that I don't feel like I get :)

I crap on a lot - especially considering I only bother sleeping 5 times per week (pensioner budget and meds are way too expensive) at the most but I will also make quick comment that a lot of people have written that they suffer heart and blood pressure issues from seroquel - if you're also taking an anti depressant, I'd be looking at that medication as the main culprit. I stopped mine after losing consciousness and injuring myself on the way down. Living alone, I put up with side effects when I have to, but that was too much. And my doctor doesn't take me seriously about anything, so I am my own, best adviser these days.

Hope anything or something in this helps one person someday.. I'd not be taking seraquel for what melatonin + sleepers combo is meant for.. Oh I wonder if some people have psychosis brought on from lack of sleep, but misdiagnosed and treated with antipsychotics when sleep is what's needed and the crappy stuff subsides and goes away for some eventually.. I'm jealous if so! There's heaps I want to say but I ramble :)

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Melatonin doesn’t do a damn thing. You may as well tell people to drink warm milk and have their mom tell them a story.

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