Posted by MB on July 11, 2001, at 23:02:01
In reply to Re: trazodone and Ambien » MB, posted by Elizabeth on July 11, 2001, at 15:45:55
> > I'm surprised they still use trazadone for sleep. That stuff made me feel wretched.
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> YMMV. It works well for a lot of people.Yeah, that's true about the YMMV rule--with any drug, that is. I'm super sensitive to antihistamines--I can't stand them. I tend to be hypercritical of any drug with antihistaminic properties...they make me feel so bad it's almost traumatic, so I unwarrantly bash them universally instead of in terms of my personal experience. So, sorry to any avid trazadone fans out there :-)
> > They might as well have given me chloral hydrate.
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> I took that a few times. It was pretty lame.Wasn't that what they called "mickeys" in old detective novels?
> > I thought Ambien was a good sleeping drug. It allowed me to get to sleep, but didn't *make* me sleep. I haven't heard one person on this board mention using it for insomnia. I wonder why?
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> You haven't been looking very hard, then. There are several rabid Ambien critics around, people who say they had serious problems related to memory loss and behavioural dyscontrol. My feeling is, if it doesn't work for you, don't take it. But it works great for a lot of people.
Looking far back is one thing I haven't been doing much of. I recently came back to this board after a period of scholastic mania (no time for the internet), so I don't know what's been said while I was gone (and--yikes--can't remember what I read when i was here last).> My only problem with Ambien is that it doesn't last long enough. My sleep tends to be fragmented, especially later in the evening, and a single dose of Ambien seldom keeps me asleep for more than four or maybe five hours. Taking a second dose in the middle of the night generally works, but my prescription (60 x 10mg/month -- I take 20 mg at a time) isn't large enough for me to do this on a regular basis. Besides, it sure would be nice to sleep continuously for eight hours. Otherwise, it's the best sedative-hypnotic I've found (and I've looked in some strange places).
Yes you have (chloral hydrate). What was that like anyway? I took a bunch of bromine salts that were, I don't know, probably from the sixties...maybe even earlier. They were lame also.
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