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my doctor has me on gabitril and ambien for sleep,i am intertested in your opion if this is a safe combination or would i be better off switching the gabitril and taking remeron and ambien

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Hi John . . .

The combination of Ambien and Gabitril is an effective one as Ambien helps people get to sleep and gabitril is one of the few medications that increase the amount of deep (stage 3 & 4) sleep experienced. Of course no medication is totally safe and Ambien sometimes causes people to do unusual things during the night and gabitril has occasionally caused convulsions.

The combination of Ambien and Remeron is effective too, but Remeron is often accompanied by significant weight gain.

Best regards . . .

Ivan
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Ivan Goldberg, M.D.

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I am a psychiatrist/psychopharmacologist with many years of expereince in treating individuals with depressions, manic-depression (Bipolar Disorder), other mood disorders,. I am especially interested in the psychopharmacologic treatment of individuals with so called "treatment-resistant" syndromes.

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I have been on the staff of the National Institute of Mental Health, Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. I am currently in full-time private practice in New York City.

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