First Night without Lunesta Sucks!

[PICK3]

Ambien has made me it's psychological bottom

couldn't even consider trying to sleep without it now ... and with the 12.5 CR's I still only sleep about 5 hours


fml!

again

 

[Mr. dB]

After years and years of trouble falling to sleep, I finally got fed up with staring at the ceiling for hours every night and talked my doctor into giving me a scrip for a sleep aid a couple of months ago. He suggested Ambien and I've been pleased with it. I don't know if I'm dependent on it, but I don't really care, I never had good sleep patterns before so I don't have a healthy baseline for comparison.

 

[billfred]

Here's the other killer for me. If I doze-off for a 20ish minute nap, I wake up feeling great and can go like mad for at least another six hours.

That really sucks if I do one of those catnaps around 6:30-7:30 at night.

I have that problem. I can not sit down and watch tv in the evening because it puts me to sleep then I wake up at 10 pm and am up for the rest of the night.

 

[bran987]

billfred - i quit caffeine over a yr ago and its been great. I now wake up every morning totally alert and wide awake.

what?!? why didn't you tell me? I thought you took all kinds of pills and drank all kinds of caffeine. How can you be more awake without it?

 

[bran987]

I almost got on ambien until this girl scared me about not being able to sleep without it now. I guess it's common. I take benadryl though and can't say I'm not semi dependent on that as well.

 

[Mr. dB]

I couldn't sleep before I got Ambien, so it matters little to me if I can't sleep without it.

 

[RottenWillow]

Life is not worth living w/o that morning cup of joe...I look foward to that when I go to bed

LOL...Me too. How pathetic are we?

Yaah when I wake up to get to drink coffee.

 

[mrplunkey]

I couldn't sleep before I got Ambien, so it matters little to me if I can't sleep without it.

I'd just watch closely regarding dosing. The first three mgs worked great for me with no side effects. Eventually six mgs didn't work so well, but the side effects worked better than ever. That's how it gets you -- sides don't diminish while effects do.

 

[Mr. dB]

I'd just watch closely regarding dosing. The first three mgs worked great for me with no side effects. Eventually six mgs didn't work so well, but the side effects worked better than ever. That's how it gets you -- sides don't diminish while effects do.

I'm not aware of any sides at present, apart from not dreading bedtime anymore. I've been taking 1/2 of a generic Ambien tab every night for two months, how long did it take for you before you had to start increasing the dose?

 

[mrplunkey]

I'm not aware of any sides at present, apart from not dreading bedtime anymore. I've been taking 1/2 of a generic Ambien tab every night for two months, how long did it take for you before you had to start increasing the dose?

I started with 3mg and after a few months started taking and extra only when I really needed to crash. By 9 months or so, it was always 6mg.