Prazosin?

[Jazeelady]

I've been on prazosin for2.5 years. I take mg at bedtime along with 30mg mirtazipine. I feel like the prazosin is no longer working. Flashbacks are back to being stronger however there are fewer as I keep stresss levels lower. I take propranolol when needed but I think I may talk to dr about trying without prazosin for awhile it makes my heart race and prazosin can have negative affect on sinuses. Has anyone else lost effectiveness of prazosin?

 

[Cannottakethis]

I've been taking prazosin for 2 years for nightmares. I don't know if it helps me sleep because I take 600 mg of seroquel with it as well as klonipin. As @Phoenix(not) said, seroquel is the sleep of the dead, and the prazosin ensures that I don't have any nightmares.

 

[Paddington]

i am very much like you, I feel nothing actually works completely to make me sleep. I have tried all the regulars, mixed many and now have prazosin, ambient and clonasepam at night. Sometimes works, sometimes not. Wish there was a sure knock me out because the idea of getting a good sleep gives me anxiety from about 7pm onward. Any ideas? I do take tried and true Wellbutrin early in the day.

 

[The Black Phoenix]

I did take it for while, and it did help alleviate the nightmares. It didn't help me sleep, and it caused my blood pressure to drop enough that I always felt unwell, otherwise, I would still be open to the idea of taking it. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be in the cards for me.

 

[hodge]

Prazosin helped with my nightmares for a couple years, then slowly stopped working. Now I take clonidine for nightmares and have been on that for more years. It's the same kind of med for high blood pressure, which I also don't have, so, yes, you have to be careful getting out of bed. I also have problems with insomnia, so it's often hard for me to figure out when to take it, because if I take it too soon before getting to sleep, it doesn't work on the nightmares. I'm allowed up to 0.4 mg a night, though if I take that much, I am very tired the next day. So it's often a choice of having the nightmares and being more alert the next day or no nightmares and being tired the next day. Sigh. I go back and forth on it.