I take Zoloft as well as Clonazepam. Is it okay for me to stop taking Clonazepam until tomorrow afternoon?
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Always consult your physician before changing your times on Meds....
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NO NO NO  - not at bed time! \n\nUniretic is a for high blood pressure. it is a Combination drug with Ace I and HCTZ. Hctz is a diuretics. Diuretics work by getting rid of extra fluid in your body by increasing your urine output, and thus decrease your blood pressure.  and nobody would want to take a diuretics at night b/c it makes you go to the bathroom!!  \n\nif you want to take both together at the same time for Convenience. yes, it is ok, take both of them in the MORNING! don't take the uniretic at night!
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It likely will help you to sleep, but bear in mind that the benzodiazepine drug class (of which valium is a signature member) is a highly addictive one. I'm not sure how long your doctor is planning on having you take the valium (diazepam is the generic drug name, btw) but you may want to discuss this with him/her. You could wind up needing the valium to get any sleep at all if you really get hooked on it. Sorry to have to deliver a cautionary tale but I've seen too many people I care about get stuck on this rollercoaster -- and forewarned is forearmed. Good luck.
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As an antidepressant user, I take mine in the am, but they do not put me to sleep or sedate me in any way.  My sister takes the same kind and dosage as I do and they put her to sleep.  Do it make any difference, NO! Do you want to sleep the day away and be up at night, it all depends on how that med effect you and you take it accordingly. As long as you take it in the time allotted you can take it at any time.  Most people want to be awake in the am.  My sister takes hers at night, because she too want to be awake in the am.  Your choice.
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You should talk to your doctor.  You may have to have the dose changed or take another medication instead. Don't stop taking it or changing the time you take it until you talk to your doctor first.
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Try Wellbutrin XL, got of the other Zoloft b/c of the same thing, and the new med works good. Just keep an eye on it and switch slowly, reducing one while adding the other.
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The twitching could be a withdrawal from the clonazepam which I think is a benzo {like valium}. I would see a doc.
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According to Lexapro's site:\n\nCan I take Lexapro with other medicines?\n\nLexapro has a low risk of interacting with other medicines in general. One important exception is the family of antidepressants called monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). Lexapro and MAOIs should not be taken together or within 14 days of each other. As with other medicines in this class (SSRIs), caution is indicated when taking Lexapro with tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs).\n\nAs with other psychotropic drugs that interfere with serotonin reuptake, patients should be cautioned regarding the risk of bleeding associated with the concomitant use of Lexapro with NSAIDs, aspirin, or other drugs that affect coagulation. Before you begin taking Lexapro, make sure to tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other medicines, including over-the-counter medicines, herbal remedies, diet supplements, etc.
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Don't take ambien.  It's very addictive.  My husband took it and had to keep taking more and more because as your body becomes accustomed to the dosage, you need more of the med to get to sleep.  Exercise, take a warm shower and set a regular bedtime and go to sleep at that time every night will ensure a good nights sleep.  This is, of course, provided you are generally healthy and not abusing alcohol or other drugs.
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I  would recommend you see another doctor to get a second opinion.   This seems like a LOT of medication.   I have been on Effexor 150mg a day for 2 years.   I was told by my doctor that valium derivatives (including Lorazapam) do not work properly with Effexor...so the fact that you are taking these two concerns me.   If you cannot afford a second opinion, you should be able to see a psychiatrist through your school or through the city's health department.  Also, if these were prescribed by a physician, I strongly recommend you see a psychiatrist instead.  Good luck.
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I answered your earlier question but did not give you the names of the pills. I would once again like to repeat you and request you not to take sleeping pills as it would ruin your life and you would not be able to stop it afterwords. You will be completely addicted and have lot of problems. Please do consult a doctor and tell him your difficulties and he will if needed prescribe you a suitable drug along with dosage etc. \n\nIf you still insist I can tell you - Please take a tablet of Alprazolam, which  is a short-acting drug in the benzodiazepine class used to treat anxiety disorders and as an adjunctive treatment for depression.Alprazolam brand names - Restyle, Alzolam, Alplax, Xanax. Different countries have different brand  names and you may not get it across the counter without a prescription. You can take .25 mg. only in the initial stages.  \n\nPlease do not try any other medicines mentioned by you or by the answerers for your earlier question. I also answered your earlier question on sleeping pill.
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Zoloft definitely can have a sedating effect, especially as dosing increases.\n\nThree other anti-depressant medications tend to have more of an energizing effect and I might suggest them as alternatives:  \n\n1.  Effexor activates two receptors both the Norepenephrine and Serotonin (Cymbalta does as well but is a newer medication.  I have been burned with prescribing new medications only to have them pulled off the market six months later.  Let others work out the kinks).  Start at 75mg and consider moving up to 150mg.  To get optimal effects you need to take 75mg or more, so don't reduce the dose if you are having side effects, increase it before you decide to stop it. \n\n2.  Lexepro acts singly on serotonin but they have refined it to delete the "left-handed" version which was responsible for some of the undesirable side effects.  I have found people will report more energy after taking this for two weeks.  It would be my close second choice.\n\n3.  Wellbutrin.  It is a Dopamine agonist.  I have had the least success with this medication but some people get along with it very well.  Avoid it if you have ever had any sort of seizure.  It too is known to improve energy levels.  This actually might not be a bad adjunct to what you are already taking...reduce the dose of the Zoloft to 25mg and start the Wellbutrin at 75mg or 150mg daily. If you wouldn't mind taking two medications.  The combination is a very good one.\n\nI would avoid, repeat avoid the Xanax or anything like it.  It is an anti-anxiety medication and will make you very tired and sleepy.\n\nEvery person is very different and therefore every person will have slightly different responses.  There is no single formula that will work, so if others tell you about something that they had luck with, take it with a grain of salt.  Have faith and keep working toward improvement.  It is an extremely rare patient that can not be helped with medications available today.\n\nIf you can get your symptoms optimally controlled for six months or more, then you can consider ramping down on the medication or stopping it completely - these medications certainly can be curative.  Caution: it will take a month after stopping to know...so don't think everything is great only to look back two months later and realize you are horribly depressed again.\n\nI hope this was helpful.
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Approximately 75% is excreted within 72  hours.  Since this drug is an antidepressant, I would not recommend just stopping it!  If you are worried about a drug test, just have a doctor's note about the medication.  With a note verifying medical use, the drug test can't be used against you...after all, this is not an illegal drug.\n\nSee for yourself:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trazodone
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I am on Lexapro and my doctor told me it was not a good idea.  It can allready make you drowsy and unaware.  Just think if you drink.
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This is the reason you aren't supposed to take it for more than few months at a time. It is a temporary fix. I used to take it and I can tell you it sucked coming off of it. I was on the lowest dose before i quit it too. It helped me alot between starting a new anti anxiety drug (effexor) and waiting for it to kick in which takes up to a month. Xanax changes you. it makes you numb to the good and bad of life. I use it to get past days I know i couldn't do on my own. However I try my best not to take it except in emergencies. You should talk to your doctor about how to best come off of it and possibly substitute it with an SSRI or similar drug that isn't addictive.
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Ok, not that I recommend doing this frequently, but 12 hour sudafed usually will keep me up, but not hyper for the full 12 hours (which is why it is a BAD idea to take it at night, as I found out once a few years ago).\n\nCoffee and sugar will make you crash.  Good luck, and I hope you get more sleep tonight!
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How to Stop Taking Paxil, Paxil CR: Your doctor should be recommending that you reduce your of the CR dosage by 12.5mg every four days. You should probably make it five days because Paxil's discontinuation syndrome is so harsh. That means putting up with the suck-ass side effects for longer, but trust me, it really sucks less this way.  Based on the 15-20 hour half-life.  If your doctor says something that's slower than that, go for it!  I'm all for slower discontinuations.  Four to five days is the fastest you can step down the dosage.\n\n\nHow To Safely Stop Taking Psychiatric & Anti-Epileptic Medications\n\nLots of people hit this site wanting to know how to stop taking their crazy meds.  That's understandable.  There are many good reasons to stop taking the meds.  There are also many bad reasons to stop taking them.  I'll try to help you sort out the good from the bad reasons.  But if you do have good reasons, you have to stop taking the meds safely.  Sudden or rapid discontinuation can lead to many problems.  This guide is just to use to make sure that you and your doctor have worked out a good discontinuation schedule for a medication, presuming you have the luxury for such. \n\nYou must work with your doctor! You are not qualified to make this decision on your own.  Got that?  What you and your doctor need to do is work out a discontinuation schedule for any medication.  This is the reverse of the titration schedule (if any, which I'm actually against), which was the plan of how your dosage was increased.  The discontinuation schedule is the plan of how you'll decrease the amount of a med you'll take.  Ask your doctor what it is based on.  There are three things a discontinuation schedule should be based on:      \nthe half-life of a drug \n\nlooking for the return of any symptoms \n\nexperience with taking someone off a med \n\nThe last one is either other people going off the same med or you coming off of the same or other meds.  Or both. \n \n\nIf you're lucky enough to get an explanation from your doctor, the half-life of a psychiatric medication is often explained like this, "It's out of your body in that many hours, but it's still in your brain." That's a gross oversimplification, but it's close enough for government work. Here's a way to picture the half-life in action. Take a glass and fill it half full with some beverage. Now fill it the rest of the way with water. OK, now empty it half of the mixture out and top it off with water. Keep doing that until you have something you'd drink and that could pass as water. The number of times it took to do that is the half-life, expressed in a quantity of water, of a particular beverage. Try it with a different beverage and you'd get a different half-life. Half-life means how long it takes for half of the metabolites to get flushed out of your system. The half-lives of meds is expressed in time because the process of adding water to the glass is more-or-less constant in your body. And in the environment for the half-lives of radioactive materials. So using Effexor (venlafaxine), if you're down to your last 37.5mg dose after 20 hours you'll have 18.75mg left in your body. Twenty hours after that you'll have about 9.4mg left. And so forth until it's gone, about 80-100 hours after your final 37.5mg tablet. Please, don't get all Xeno's Paradoxical on me, after four or five passes, as it were, a med is so broken down that the effects shouldn't be noticeable. The only real variable is not if it's four or five times the length of the half-life, but if you metabolize the med quickly or slowly. These half-life numbers are the based on the arithmetic mean averages from clinical trials and studies. Read the pharmacokinetics section of the med's PI sheet carefully to see what the known range of a drug's half-life is.\n\nAll right so where does this "In your brain bu