Guest guest Posted April 5, 2001 Report Share Posted April 5, 2001 Jack: I'm not quite sure just which medication you are talking about.......I've been on so many..........my life back then was a big blur!! However, I was on Ativan for a while and then I was on Clonazepan/Klonopin. Although all my doctors would disagree, they both gave me some pretty wierd side effects........tremors, muscle twitches, etc. I discontinued the use of several drugs against doctors' orders - and guess what, I felt so much better. Trudy was on one or both of these drgus also for quite a while.....you might want to check with her. Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you. Trudy - are you there? Ellen ****************** > A month or two ago there was some post about a sleeping pill that had a bad reputation. The one that was ban in most European countries.What is the name of the sleep medication. I think maybe Ellen was on it and got off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2001 Report Share Posted April 6, 2001 Hi Jack: I found that if I had just *one* missed dose, all h*ll broke lose! I am firmly convinced that that *one* missed dose was *withdrawal*!!! Terrible experience...........I weaned myself off it. It is extremely important to come off of this drug very slowly. Ellen **************************************** ----- Original Message ----- > (snip) he has nightmares at night, and hallucinates during the > day, but refuses to come off of it. (snip) > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2001 Report Share Posted April 6, 2001 >Does anyone else have a problem with sleeping.I only average 1 to 2 hours if >sleep a night. I am scared to try sleep >aids. Anyone have this problem, if so >what do you do? I've had insomnia since I was about 12. (really unusual for me to be asleep before 3am). Once I'm asleep though I can get 6-7 hours in. (one advantage of working from home is that if I wake up at 9am I can be working 5 minutes later!) recently though (in the last 6 months) I've been able to sleep before midnight. This may be because of the heart meds or being generally unfit! I've never taken any meds to get to sleep. A trick I learnt since the start of AF is to go to sleep with the radio on. In the early days it was so annoying to hear my heart beat with my head against the pillow - the background noise is a good distraction. (the radio has a nice sleep feature on it - I set it to switch itself of after 90 minutes - by which time I'm usually asleep). cheers -- D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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