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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, I held out so long talking to my doc about insomnia. I was pretty miserable due to it, I’d get 5-6 hours of sleep a night. Once I talked to my doc and got some meds to help, holy shit what a change! Now I’m getting a full 8 hours and I’m so much happier throughout the day

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What meds? I tried zopiclone and found the hangover significantly worse than just dealing with the sleep deprivation

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Zopiclone didn’t work too well for me, so he put me on gabapentin and that was moderately good. Finally I’m on trazodone and this is working great.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Damn, got my hopes up. Don't get me wrong I'm super glad trazodone works for you, but man it seems like every insomnia treatment "success story" I've heard goes the same way: "tried x, tried y, tried traz which worked great". I know it shouldn't, but it makes me really disheartened since trazodone failed miserably for me. Where other meds did nothing at all, traz put me in a fugue zombie like state where I was uncomfortably tired, but if anything even more incapable of actually sleeping. The sleep specialist I was seeing gave up on me so I'm just kinda raw dogging life now.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which ones have you tried? I have quite a few friends that are docs or in residency and really just want to pass on something that can make peoples lives better.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Honestly I don't fully remember, this was all back in 2019 and my memory is pretty shit. Gabapentin sounds very familiar so I'm guessing that was one of them, other than that and the traz, I tried two others but I can't recall the name of them. I also was on seroquel as a kid; it wasn't primarily for sleep but felt it worth mentioning since it basically felt like super trazodone, in a bad way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I really want to sleep more than 5-6 hours per night, but I also really do not want to rely on GABAergics/benzos for sleep. Besides, doctors in my country will rarely prescribe them anyway.

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