My ins company wn't pay for any more Lunesta, not even the $40 co-pay, so my pdoc gave me the generic restoril today.  I have a really high tolerance to Benzo's--sometimes takes 2-3 Klonopin to get me to sleep.  Is this gonna work?  They ara are really trying to help me decrease my meds costs--but is this gonna work?  I only got 30 mgs.,once a night--

Any one else have any esperience on this, especially if you have a really high (and I mean super high ) tolerance for Benzos?

Hey china, I don't know what to say...except first, that sucks about the Lunesta coverage.  I too have a problem with certain benzos working for me.  And even my "old standby" Serax isn't working like it used to...but I have gotten it down to one pill a night from two to do the job and I am getting what is considered "normal" sleep even though it's just barely.

I find benzos are so YMMV.  I mean, all the drugs are we talk about here but at least with benzos you'll know fairly quickly whether or not they'll work.

You may have to just do the trial and error thing...I hate to say it.  Have you tried Restoril before? Did it work then? I did years ago and it didn't do much for me but as the saying goes...YMMV.

And I think the atypicals are out for you aren't they?

Karen

China,

Currently taking 1mg of Clonozapam three times a day; at night 10 mg of Ambien and 10 mg of Temazapam.  If that does not work I change to 10 mg of Ambien and 30 mg of Flurazapam.  The Temazapam & Flurazapam are inexpensive.

Oh, the Restoril worked like a charm, I slept like the dead, was a bit groggy this AM, but did feel rested--so I guess it will be OK.

Oh--and BTW--I got layed off my job today. 2 days before T'giving. Ho Ho Ho muther fucker.

Maybe lots of Restoril tonite--

China cat this SUCKS. I am so sorry!

Glad the med worked, I was gonna suggest neurontin. I know it's way out there, but it knocks me cold at night. And I take some klonopin too.

Take care.

So sucks.

Breeze

I have a HUGE tolerance to benzos, which is partly why I'm stopping my Valium. At times I would take up to 120mg diazepam at once and really not feel much of anything.

As for flurazapam, It worked for a while, but after a few weeks I was taking three or four pills (20mg pills, I think)...  So I stopped that too.

But I'm a strange one with the med-meds.

--
Spencer

sorry about your job...

how's the restoril working out?  still working?

when i took it, i would have super groggy walking into walls hangover type stuff from it.  don't know why.  but it did work, so hey.  groggy is better than insomnia in my book.

Working pretty well, have to take  two sme nights--dont have any grogginess.

Stayed up way late last nite, now haveing weird EPS-like things, like I did when I tried to take the atypicals and Compazine.  I have no idea why--no new meds troday, no new nothing.

I am so fucked up.

chinacat, the Pdoc's dream, with the weirdest fuckin' reactions on the planet--to meds I didn't even take.

ack!  have you called your doc about the EPS reactions?? please pretty please do!

*worries*

No--I know, bad cat---cause they have mostly gone, and I figured out that they ALL came from the change from BRAND Wellbutrin XR 300 MG QD in the AM to the Generic, SR, 150 MG, 2 each AM. 

I am wired out on a fucking drug I have been taking for almost 8 months, because the GENERIC IS NOT THE SAME AS THE BRAND-- I AM GETTING WAY MORE MEDICATION, APPARENTLY.

Be forewarned--I was the Champion of generics for 25 years--I WAS WRONG!!!!!!!


I HATE THE PHARM COMPANIES--

This is so fucking stupid--

thanks for asking, tho--

love,

china, queen of EPS Spazzes and sadder,poorer, but wiser about generics

when the generic SR came out, i was at first VERY excited that my med prices would drop.  Unfortunatley, like you, i discovered that it affected me COMPLETLEY differently than the brand SR had.  It was like the release mechanism was not properly working and i was getting a rush of the med all at once.  (almost as bad as the non SR regular wellbutrin.)  sometimes generics are the same, and sometimes they just aren't.  don't know why, but i too noticed the difference in wellbutrin, so i switched to xr even though i still like the brand SR the best... but getting that involves a fight with insurance that i didn't want to deal with.  hope you get this fixed somehow.