Anxious and trouble sleeping

Hi
Looking for help. I was on Celexa and was tapered to Lexapro. I started at 10mgs and went up to 20 after 7 days. I am having a really hard time staying asleep. I take the pill in the morning, and I can feel like an anxious current running through me all day. I can't nap. At night I take 2mg of Klonopin and right before I go to sleep I take 2 mg of Adivan. I can fall asleep for about 2 hours then I wake up every 2 hours or so with strange dreams, have a hard time getting back to sleep.

This is making me exhausted and scared. I have been on the 20mg for about 2 weeks maybe a little more. I need this to work because I just moved to a new state have been extremely sad and depressed. I am worried about work.

Please someone help me, or share with me something I might not know. I don't have the strength to change to another drug

You said,

"I am having a really hard time staying asleep. At night I take 2mg of Klonopin and right before I go to sleep I take 2 mg of Adivan. I can fall asleep for about 2 hours then I wake up every 2 hours or so with strange dreams, have a hard time getting back to sleep."


I've had trouble sleeping, also., and did not want to take a doctor's sleeping pill.

So I went to the health food store. I took Melatonin from the health food store. I got the 1 milligram size, it also has a 3 mg. size, so I guess 3 mgs. must be OK., but I would buy the 1 mil. size in case 1 or 2 mil. is all you need.

I took the 1 mg. size, and it didn't quite put me to sleep, so next night or that night, I took 2 at night. It worked so well I had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, but it did put me to sleep, which was what I was looking for.

I then cut it with a pill cutter, and took 1 and 1/2 of the 1 mg. pills at night, so I could get up easier the next a.m.

Then I switched to Power to Sleep from the health food store, also. I take one at night, and it puts me to sleep and I don't feel so groggy in the a.m. as the Melatonin did.

Someone on this website mentioned Alteril, a new health food pill for sleeping, which they said was very good. The name Stillnox health food sleep aid was also mentioned on this website.

These items can be ordered on the net, or bought in a health food store.

Hi worriedlex,

I am not on Celexa or Lexapro but I also have trouble sleeping when I am taking meds even if it is just a cold medicine or antihistamine. I also wakes up several times at night and dreams every time I go back to sleep, and they're all different from each other! When I'm not taking any meds I still have trouble going back to sleep when I wakes up to use the bathroom. I don't want to take sleeping pills because I don't want to get hooked to it. I just take a nap when I'm sleepy during the day. I'm still looking for something that will help me sleep better that is not a pill.

Hope you can find one that would help you too! Good luck!

stilnox is a prescription med here in Australia..........because of misuse dr's are not prescribing it a lot.