Re:Need Help with Major Insomnia

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Why are you taking only 1/3 of an Ambien??? Ambien is a short acting

sleeping pill, meant to help get you to sleep, but it wears off in about 3

hours, which is why you can take it as late as 3:00am and still get up in

the morning.

I would try taking the whole Ambien. I take Halcion (sp) my ins. won't pay

for Ambien anymore - it is cheap, it works, not the greatest stuff - but as

I ONLY sleep a couple of hours a night and some nights not at all and it has

been this way for 20 yrs.........it is certainly better than the

alternative.

Somewhere in my Endrocine system there is an answer - wouldn't it just be

great if the docs could figure it out?? I've had trouble sleeping since I

was a child.

SeaLady

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Taking a whole ambien has no effect on me. Even on nights when I end up

using a whole ambien, I take it in a couple of stages. One portion to get

me to sleep and later if I wake up, I take more. That way I usually end up

with a total of 7 to 8 hours of sleep. Ambien does put you in deep REM

sleep. I took it often before and then got off it completely (which meant

not sleeping for about 2 nights to get it all out of my body). Now because

of the depressed ACTH (on 25mg HC cream) I get so exhausted, I have to

resort to ambien sometimes. I just requested some ambien CR this morning

from my internal medicine DR. Hopefully she will give it to me. I'll know

later today.

Wish I had a good overseas source for ambien or lunesta.

Delores

Re:Need Help with Major Insomnia

> Why are you taking only 1/3 of an Ambien??? Ambien is a short acting

> sleeping pill, meant to help get you to sleep, but it wears off in about 3

> hours, which is why you can take it as late as 3:00am and still get up in

> the morning.

>

> I would try taking the whole Ambien. I take Halcion (sp) my ins. won't

pay

> for Ambien anymore - it is cheap, it works, not the greatest stuff - but

as

> I ONLY sleep a couple of hours a night and some nights not at all and it

has

> been this way for 20 yrs.........it is certainly better than the

> alternative.

>

> Somewhere in my Endrocine system there is an answer - wouldn't it just be

> great if the docs could figure it out?? I've had trouble sleeping since I

> was a child.

>

> SeaLady

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>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

KC, you sound just like me. My insomnia started in childhood too. And

the past 20 some years have been godawful. I've never found a sleep med

that works for me. Even the ones that leave me groggy and drugged

feeling the next day don't help me sleep. Between my chlorpheniramine

and .5 mg melatonin, I get some very broken sleep, doesn't add up to

much, but better than nothing.

I have decided to wait until I feel optimized on thyroid before

pursuing any more sleep meds. To tell the truth I'm scared of them, as

some gave me such bad side effects and/or left me so very grogged the

next day. As much as I want and need sleep, I cannot bear the drugged

feeling, which causes me to be totally non-functional, instead of just

mostly non-functional. The side effects I've experienced included

unimaginably horrible nightmares, so that I went from desperately

wanting to sleep to being desperately afraid I would sleep.

sol

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