I have a new friend, 20, who was driven mad (breaking thing, attacking people) by going four or five days with ZERO sleep.
A doctor prescribed Clopixol, a strong anti-psychotic, to make him sleep for four or five days straight, waking up only to take more Clopixol.
He tells me that his mother stopped the Clopixol continuous deep sleep before instructed and he woke up crazy again.
So, his mother followed the prescribed treatment, using enough Clopixol to keep him asleep for several days straight. Then he woke up in his right mind again.
Over time, he has gone from taking an entire tablet before bed to taking one quarter of a tablet and that makes him sleep. But, he is just like me in terms of sleep: unless he is medicated into sleep, he does not fall asleep at all.
For people like us, it takes a strong medicine to make us sleep. I now use 12.5mg (half tablet) of quetiapine plus 2mg of alprazolam to get to sleep. Once I take them, even w/ the television on and my cellphone in hand, I fall asleep within an hour after taking the medicine.
The alprazolam (stronger than lorazapam) helps me get to sleep and the quetiapine KEEPS me asleep until and even THROUGH the morning.
I am taking less quetiapine over the last days to avoid spending the following daytime asleep.
I am considering trying Cloxipil as an alternative to quetiapine, to see if it inhibits my negative thinking and constant thoughts of suicide.
The difference I see between the quetiapine and Cloxipil is that my friend, who has stayed over at my house the last five days, wakes up st seven in the morning, well-disposed to start an active day by e.g. eashing the dishes and preparing breakfast.
On quetiapine, I am not even fully awake until 11:00 AM. That's why I'm reducing it.
Whether you take quetiapine or Cloxipil, get your blood tested for diabetes. BOTH of these drugs are known to potentially cause diabetes.
I once took 800mg of Quetiapine per day. My blood sugar became pre-diabetic. I stopped taking quetiapine and my blood sugar went back to normal.
A combination of quetiapine and e.g. alprazolam might be more effective for sleep than either of them alone because they "potentiate" each other.
I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me.
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