Posted by terra miller on March 6, 2001, at 18:35:46
In reply to Serzone Insomnia, posted by Mary Ann on March 6, 2001, at 17:53:40
> I have been on Serzone for about 2 weeks, gradually increasing my dose from 50 mg/bedtime to 200 mg/bedtime. My optimal dose will be 200 mg/bedtime and 100 mg/morning. When my dosage was at 100 mg/bedtime, I began having insomnia and bad dreams (I've woken up crying a few times) when I was finally able to sleep with the help of Benadryl. Has anyone else experienced this? What has worked with others? I have a call in to my P-doc to see what he recommends. I might switch back to Prozac and incorporate Wellbutrin (to combat the negative sexual side effects from Prozac). My P-doc said the Prozac/Wellbutrin was another option to the Serzone. Thanks for your help!
hi, i took serzone for quite a while using 300mg-350mg at bedtime so that i COULD sleep. splitting the dose made the morning dose knock me out. i haven't heard about not being able to sleep on serzone. but i do know that especially in the first weeks-months that serzone will really make you dream and remember the dreams. for me, i found that to be an asset to my therapy and we got a lot done. but mine were mostly dreams and not of the nightmare variety. i found ativan to be helpful if i had a nightmare and couldn't get back to sleep. probably what you are talking about is that increased-dream thing that's pretty common. it does get better. take care, terra. oh, the serzone doesn't have the sexual sideeffects like other meds do.
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