Please Help…sleep Medication Issue With My Doctor?
Question by Maniacally: Please help…sleep medication issue with my doctor?
I’ve been on Restoril 30mg and Seroquel 100mg for a year. I have very bad insomnia due to depression and anxiety. Physically I have not become dependent on either, which was proven when I took a week long trip out of state, and my luggage containing my medication was lost. I was unable to sleep hardly for the whole trip, but did not experience any withdrawals (Restroil is a benzo…and those withdrawals can be terrible from what I hear).
Anyways, recently I had developed a small drug addiction to pain medication (Vicodin) for about two months. I was prescribed it for pain, but started abusing it, and once I realized that I was abusing it, I told my doctor. When I had tried to stop taking the Vicodin cold turkey, I experienced opiate withdrawals
My doctor put me in this outpatient drug rehab program and put me on Suboxone for a week. After I got off the Suboxone two weeks ago, I have not felt any opiate withdrawals. But my Psychiatrist refuses to prescribe me Restoril anymore, since it has potential for abuse. She told me to double my dose of Seroquel. Well once I doubled my Seroquel dose, I started experiencing absolutely terrifying hallucinations. I would become extremely schizophrenic, and too terrified to sleep.
I notified my doctor, and she prescribed me Remeron, and told me to cut my dose of Seroquel back to normal. The cut dose of Seroquel does not let me fall asleep, and the Remeron doesn’t do anything at all.
I heard that Lunesta is the best sleep medication out there, but unfortunately Kaiser (my insurance) does not cover it. A 1 month supply of Lunesta is over $ 200
I have been sleeping at most two to three hours a night ever since. I am beginning to lose my mind. I am at odds with my boss because my work performance is dwindling. I am on the verge of losing my mind and my source of income.
My doctors refuse to do anything else. I have tried literally EVERY herbal supplement that helps for sleep….but it does nothing for me. Kaiser doesn’t cover Sonata or Ambien either. This has gotten to the point where I just can’t take it anymore. I am so desperate that I am looking to buy benzos off the street just so I can finally get one damned full night of sleep!
I’m sorry for the long post. I am extremely desperate. My life is falling apart all around me.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Best answer:
Answer by Brandon Found
find a new doctor, tell him/her that you had insomnia before and took restroil which helped a lot. Say you’ve been off it for a while and haven’t had much luck sleeping so you want to get back on it. Tell the new doctor the whole story about the vicodin and outline the entire fiasco pretty good. If your new doc sees that your being completely honest and have a history of honesty (confessing you had a vicodin problem) they’ll probably be sympathetic.
I had a history of Heroin abuse, I explained that to my dentist and he was still able to prescribe me hydrocodeine because he trusted I wasn’t drug seeking as I otherwise wouldn’t of told him about my past.
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