DrugBuyers.Com: Doxepin

Daeshay76!!!

Very very important about this medication!!!!

Before I was diagnosed, they put me on this medication, and I have to say it helped, but coming off of it was the worst!!!

Story:
I was having trouble sleeping after having my son, and when I went in to my Doc, I told him that since the birth of my son, I was having this terrible pain in my knees, and I wasn't able to sleep at night because of it. So of course, since I just had a baby, they said it was post pardum depression, and put me on Doxepin.
They started me on 10mg doses, which I was supposed to take once a night before bed.
Then the next week, I was to take 20mg. then the next week increase to 30, until I got all the way up to 100mg.s per night.
Well, the script was written in the beginning, for the 10mgs per night, so when I ran out, and went to get it refilled, the pharmacy wouldn't refill it, cause it was too early, and I told them that the Doc told me to increase my dose, but he didnt' write it on the script that way.
So, I thought, no biggie, and went home.
Well, the next night was hell, I had been on this med for over 3 months by now, and was dependant on it for sure.
I became very sick to my stomach, and could not sleep at all!!!! It was horrible!!
I called my Doc, and he re-called in a new script for it, and told the pharmacist to fill it, so they did, and as soon as I took the med, I got better.
It's one of those kinds of meds that you have to slowly taper off of it. And I was up to 100 mg. a day, and I had to decrease it slowly, by 10mgs per week, the same way I started it.

Doxepin was described to me this way:
When you go to sleep at night, your body goes into different modes of sleep, I think they said like 5 stages, at stage 1 is when you are slowly drifting to sleep, and then you go to your 5th stage when you are totally out of it, well, after having my son, I was never reaching my 5th stage, I was only getting to the 2nd or 3rd at night, so I was deprived of sleep for along time.
The doxepin put me into those stages to get the sleep I needed, cause they thought I was having Postpardum depression, and that was causing my knee pain, which was keeping me from sleeping, (go figure.... that's the way Doctors think sometimes, and it was the wrong diagnoses all along, so I didn't really need to be on the med, but it did help me sleep again!)

Anyway, after being on the med, and becoming dependant on it, I was getting the sleep I needed, and decided to come off of it, after having that situation when I ran out, and slowly decreased my dose until I was down to the 10 mgs again per night, and then went to a dose every other day, until I was to every 4 days, that's when I stopped taking that med.

Make sure you do some good research on it. You will find all the good and the bad with this med.

After taking it for awhile, and you decide to come off of it, ask for the 10mgs, so you can slowly wean yourself off.

oh yeah, DON'T DRINK WHILE TAKING IT!!!! I learned that the hard way!

If he's diagnose you with Fibro, this meds might actually help you, as Fibro patients have a hard time sleeping, and this meds will help you sleep. And once your body gets used to it, you won't feel the "groggy" parts during the day.

Just be very careful when you stop this med, you get real sick to your stomach, headaches, and can't sleep at all!!!!

Hope this helps you.