My GP wants me to come off Zopiclone and Im afraid....

Treatment and medication
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Hi Emma

What are the names of the 2 antidepressants that you are on to help you sleep ? My GP wants me of my zopiclone

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if you can avoid it then do so,i think you'll find that it wont help with your anxiety but then when you come to pack it in your symptoms will get worse..that my experience with all the tablets i've tried.as for doctors,well i wouldnt trust them as far as i could throwthem when it comes to drugs,they just look in a book to find out what the effects will be.

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kelly,the best anti depressants to help with sleeping are amitryptalene and mirtazapine.

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Thanks for your advice dean I'm really at a loss at what to do because the shrink don't want to see me after only seeing me once and not really offering anything other than pregabalin

And them taking me of my zopiclone because he thinks it's all in my mind

After 18 years Hardly any suggestions you guys are the only ones who understand

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From experience I would day don't start it! Another nightmare drug to try and come off of!

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Ok thanks dean I will ask my GP if he will perscibed these for me (don't hold your breath ) my persciption at the moment is propranolol 80mg and a antidepressant that I've been on for years that make me feel irritable when I take it and zopiclone

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get some mirtazapine to help with your sleeping,it will also help you relax..tell them to start yoiu on the maximum dose of 45mg because you are tolerant of zopiclone the lower doses of mirtazapine wont have any effect.

 

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Hi Emma,

I'm actually still waiting for my medication review  - should be in roughly 4 weeks time and then its tapering  time.  I'm trying to gather as much intelligence as I can on zopiclone withdrawal and the use of benzodiazapines to help me  through it.  I need to be educated on this so that my doc wont just fob me off and throw me to the wind.  I'm even trying to cut down on the zopiclone myself and I'm struggling already and that's with me actually having a supply of sleeping pills so I'm  not feelinig positive.  If you are only taking one zoplclone a night and have done for 5 years and you're not abusing them, why can't the doc just let me have them - I dont see what the problem is??  I

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Thank you smile Will let you know how things go!