Posted by Elizabeth on August 12, 2001, at 4:49:29
In reply to Re: Pdoc /Insurance Fight about Sleep meds, posted by stjames on August 12, 2001, at 1:55:22
> > The ideas of using various sedating antidepressants (mainly antihistaminic ones) is a good one. But you shouldn't expect these medications to have the same effects that Ambien does; they're very different, and it's not necessarily true that they will work for you just because Ambien worked.
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> Correct, but you will not know till you try them.That's true, and they are worth trying (although they tend to have much more side effects than Ambien). But an insurance company that claims that trazodone or temazepam is a reasonable *substitute* for Ambien is just lying (or at least, mistaken -- I tend to assume the worst about insurance companies, of course).
-elizabeth
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