What Causes Reduced Sleep Despite Taking Olanzapine, Zolpidem And Depakote?

Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2015

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Question : I find very hard to get over to sleep. I'm taking zolpidem 10mg
Also taking olaxapine 5.5
And lastly depakote 750 & 500 twice daily

Answered by Dr. Dr. Chintan Solanki (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Increasing dose of olanzapine or adding benzodiazepine will help

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Thanks for writing to us.

You are suffering from bipolar disorder.In this disorder person gets sleep disturbance.

Olanzapine is used as mood stabilizer as well as it causes significant sedation.Increasing dose of olanzapine can help.

Other option is using benzodiazepine like clonazepam or lorazepam instead of zolpidem.

Discuss these aspects with your doctor and change treatment.

Try to follow some measures called 'sleep hygiene' which would help in sleep. You can find the same in below link.

sleepfoundation.org/ask-the-expert/sleep-hygiene

Hope I have answered your query, I will be happy to help further.

Regards,
Dr.Chintan Solanki.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar