johanstruijk82 wrote:
hmm Lunesta gets a score of 2.6 (with a range to 5) at
http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.a ... me=LUNESTA while ambien is rated 3.2, just like Trazodone is rated over there. Anyone knows of a really good sleep aid over here that actually works? I tried almost everything.. I'm now simply excercising 2 hours a day and have a good day schedule (i think which is the best remedy).
I'm currently taking 50mg Seroquel (before I requested and received 300 mg which did something for a day) which does nothing.
Fair enough - the sleeping med I'm on is Zopiclone, which has been available on prescription in the UK for two decades now. It's chemically related to Lunesta, but isn't quite the same compound. I only suggested Lunesta because it's the nearest thing to Zopiclone that's available in the States, and I was assuming - possibly wrongly - that most of the people who post on this site are American.
It gets a decent write-up here :
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/drugs-t ... r-insomnia
I know that these drugs are wildly variable in terms of both their efficacy and their side-effects though, so my experience may be atypical. I've heard from people who have tried it that Trazodone is the most effective of the lot - contrary to that rating - but I've yet to find a doctor who will willingly prescribe it.
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