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>sleep-inducing dosage I don't know why benzos are used for sleep anymore. It's generally a higher dose than what's needed to manage anxiety, so there's increa

>sleep-inducing dosage I don't know why benzos are used for sleep anymore. It's generally a higher dose than what's needed to manage anxiety, so there's increased risk of dependency and you build up tolerance quickly. In contrast, something like a low dose of Seroquel is at least as effective, has a much lower addictions & abuse profile, and tolerance doesn't build up very quickly at all. On top of which there should very rarely be any need for regular sleep aids. Chronic idiopathic insomnia is relatively rare, and any other forms should have treatment protocols that don't involve heavy duty maintenance meds.

deusum 4y ago
Seroquel is an anti-psychotic for bipolar, schizophrenia, and other disorders. Maybe it makes you sleepy, but that doesn't feel like a safe alternate course. Not quite as aggressive as MJ taking propofol to sleep, I'll give you.
colechristensen 4y ago
They work. Other things don’t always.
- ineedasername 4y ago
  Yes, in rare cases of idiopathic insomnia antihistamines and other types of cns depressants may not work, but a benzo should very rarely be the first choice when trying to treat it. (Various stages of mania may be exceptions, and generally only short term until any underlying issues are addressed)
  - colechristensen 4y ago
    From personal experience, in periods of high stress and other things going wrong, nothing but benzos could reliably allow me to choose to fall asleep. Short term (for me it was just a few times a month) I’m sure the side effects were harmless. A handful of other things simply did not work. Having a strong lever to push my sleep schedule back towards healthy even when I had, say, taken a five hour afternoon nap, was extremely useful. Being given other things that not only didn’t make me fall asleep but let me lethargic most of the rest of the next day… and having to wait months while doctors experimented with “safer” things was extremely frustrated and led to worse effects than were feared from avoiding benzos.

deusum 4y ago

Seroquel is an anti-psychotic for bipolar, schizophrenia, and other disorders. Maybe it makes you sleepy, but that doesn't feel like a safe alternate course. Not quite as aggressive as MJ taking propofol to sleep, I'll give you.

colechristensen 4y ago

They work. Other things don’t always.

ineedasername 4y ago
Yes, in rare cases of idiopathic insomnia antihistamines and other types of cns depressants may not work, but a benzo should very rarely be the first choice when trying to treat it. (Various stages of mania may be exceptions, and generally only short term until any underlying issues are addressed)
- colechristensen 4y ago
  From personal experience, in periods of high stress and other things going wrong, nothing but benzos could reliably allow me to choose to fall asleep. Short term (for me it was just a few times a month) I’m sure the side effects were harmless. A handful of other things simply did not work. Having a strong lever to push my sleep schedule back towards healthy even when I had, say, taken a five hour afternoon nap, was extremely useful. Being given other things that not only didn’t make me fall asleep but let me lethargic most of the rest of the next day… and having to wait months while doctors experimented with “safer” things was extremely frustrated and led to worse effects than were feared from avoiding benzos.