Insomnia almost drove me to suicide.
That is...until I solved both my depression (to a great extent but not entirely) and my insomnia with a miracle drug called Avanza. I'm now on 90mg (2 x 45mg tablets) every night about 8pm, then at bed at around 930pm.
Even now I still suffer from depression, but at least it's being kept under control. I can't explain why I feel the way I do but I'll just keep it quick and simple - lots of major life trauma has done that to me.
Hey Ben,
I'm on AVANZA also. but I still have terrible problems sleeping. Its not that I can't sleep, But I wake up many times during the night, and have troule falling back to sleep. It's kinda like I'm in a state between sleep and awake. I'm alert most of the time, and wake as soon as my bedroom door opens, when my lil bro tries to sneak in and steal my ciggs or chocolate or something (annoying little runt, lol) Also find myself having terrible weird dreams all the time. Been happening since before I started AVANZA. The doc tells me its probably stress and anxiety, and prescribed me some temazepam. Temazepam works, but I find that it knocks me around the next day, and I find it hard to wake up too, so I stopped taking them. Not to mention it can become habit forming and very addictive
Glad to hear its working for you, at least the avanza is keeping my depression in check
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I know for a fact that I also suffer from sleep paralysis, maybe thats what causing my issues and I will tell my doctor bout this on my next visit.
Bradchip, if your having vivid, insane dreams, and have the same symptoms as me (being stuck in a state between being asleep and awake) you may suffer from sleep paralysis like me. Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and discovered that you cannot move? That your paralysed? Only lasts a short time, but feels like an eternity and can be real frightening. (not long ago, they were called entity attacks and people believed that it was ghosts or entitys holding you down and suffocating you. I now know its a medical condition, but it still scares the **** outta me everytime it happens. It drives me insane thinking what if...)