Posted by sl on July 24, 2001, at 22:12:47
In reply to Re: Is it ok to take AP's as needed? - MM, posted by MM on July 24, 2001, at 16:25:30
See, I don't think you need a sleep aid, unless you WANT to go to bed earlier. Your doctor is...well, I wouldn't say WRONG, but it sure doesn't SOUND right.
Personally I never had a clock installed in my forehead, if you didn't then YOUR body doesn't know what time it is either! Just make sure it's light at the right times and dark at the right times, and you can sleep when you want to. Other than socially (being up when friends are sleeping and vice versa), I can't see where it'd be a problem.As for red flags of addiction/abuse, don't be so sure. I'm sure I don't have those, and my doc won't prescribe those either. She's benzo-phobic, positive it's addictive in every person who takes it. End of story. And I'm sure she thinks the same of Ambien.
I have the Seroquel too, I decided not to try it til I had insomnia again cuz you're not supposed to drink on it and I like to have a couple once in a while.
sl
> I'm really not sure if I like seroquel. I wake up and feel kind of like someone shook my head around all night. A whole pill is usually too much so I take either half or a quarter. I didn't really decide I needed a sleep aid. My pattern isn't staying up for days, it's just staying up late, but I usually go to bed around the same time every night and wake up around the same time every day. I don't have a job or anywhere I usually need to be....but the pdoc said that between 12 and 4 am is when NREM sleep occurs so I need to be asleep between those hours. I guess my history must be full of red flags for addiction/abuse, or he would have prescribed ambien (or klonopin), not that I would want to abuse psych drugs, even if I was in that frame of mind.
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