best med for sleep?(need advice fast)

Im going to see my psychiatrist soon(like tomorrow soon) and im hoping to be put on a new medication for chronic insomnia. For about the last year and a half i have been on Seroquel for sleep. for the longest time it worked wonders it would knock me out cold and keep me asleep effectively the whole night. unfortunatelly, it hasnt lasted. over the past few months it has stopped being really effective. it will make me groggy and tired, but it wont put me to sleep, it just makes me feel like i weigh 500 pounds. so i stay awake most of the night and the worst comes when i have to get up. the seroquel lasts a long time so its increadibly hard to get out of bed, then im still groggy for about an hour if not more after i get up. i know seroquel can have other benifits as an augment to my anti-depression meds but thats not why i take it and its not worth the lack of sleep i have. trust me only getting a couple hours of sleep per night sucks. it affects every aspect of your life.

so anyway seroquel is out. ive tried messing with the doses- as low as 12.5mg all the way up to 100mg. it just dont work anymore. ive also tried zyprexa and thats basically the same as seroquel. Ive also tried trazadone and remeron and had terrible side effects. so like i said im going to see my psychiatrist so think pharmacuticals. i know all about natural remedies and i do pretty well on my diet and exersize.

my first thought is to try something like Ambien or Lunesta. i know these will probably work ok but im not entirely sure my doc would give me those. see he knows i have a history of substance abuse. He does give me 3mg of clonazepam a day but i was already on that before i started seeing him. so he might think me already being on that, adding a narcotic sleep aid might be pushing it. also if i were to go on ambien or lunesta what kind of cross tolerance would i experience. hmmm, well i guess thats a good problem to have lol.

ok lets get down to brass tacks here. i will ask for ambien or lunesta, but assuming i get turned down, WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE?

any ideas or experiences are encouraged and appreciated.
thanks team
-Blitz

 

trazadone helps.

for me nothing beats ambien and indica weed.

lunesta leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.

 

Cannabis, but your doc wont prescribe that in Texas! lol

My boss takes xanax, just .25 mg , but it works for him.. any benzo really i guess..

 

I take 1.5 xanax every night going on 10 years.
While it does not have the I'll be asleep in 10 minutes effect, but for me it mellows me out enough that when my head hits the pillow-I am out.

Good Luck with whatever the dr gives you.

 

i ended up getting lunesta 3mg. i already have a clonazepam script but it dosnt help me sleep much

 

dude, seroquil, zyprexa, and remeron are all anti psych meds. Meds like that aren't' t intended for sleep, per say. Ambien, sonata, Lunesta...those are the sleepers. Probably don't mix those with your psych meds.

 

just try playing arouns with different doses of benzos, theres better ones for sleep... diazepam comes to mind :sunny:
if they don't do dick then any of the z drugs(sonata, lunesta, ambien, and Seroquel might even be one although im sure its an a-typical) are what you want... but theyre pretty nasty unless you want to wake up feeling like you smoked about an oz of high grade

 

Indica is the best sleep medicine. You wake up feeling great too.

 

i guess any benzo...opiates make me more awake than sleepy