Posted by Maxime on May 2, 2005, at 12:42:46
In reply to Re: This is a BAD drug, posted by Chad_b234 on May 2, 2005, at 0:55:53
Ambien isn't meant to used every night. You are suppose to use for 3 night or so until you get into a normal sleep pattern ... to break the insomnia. I'm sorry about your insomnia, but I am glad that there is at least one wise doctor out there.
BTW, I am the Queen of Insomnia, so I do know what it's like to go without sleep ... sometime for days.
Maxime
> I have been using Ambien for about a month now with EXCELLENT results! I've suffered from problems falling asleep and general sleep deprivation for years. I've only recently began searching for help with the problem. I started out with Zoloft, thinking it was depression related. After a couple months of treatment with Zoloft I really wasn't sleeping any better so my Dr gave me some Ambien to try. I have also scheduled a sleep study, but the earliest I could get in is June. For the first time in a very long time I am able to function normally throughout the day, I never realized how bad I felt till I had a good night of sleep with the Ambien. Its hard to describe how excited I have been lately to feel so great! I'm almost 30 and I truly can't remember feeling this good since I was in my early teens. Here is the problem... After my first 15 Ambien my Dr will not refill my prescription. No matter how much I begged for them, even just enough to get me to my sleep study he wouldn't refill it. Now he gave me Doxepin, I took it about an hour ago and here I sit typing on the computer at 1 am. I would like to try the Lunestra, I have been following it a bit lately, but he hadn't even heard of it. How hard is it to get Ambien for anyone else? Is it just my Dr or is it really that strictly limited? I guess for the meantime I'll just suffer till I find out what my real problem is. I'd appreciate any help from anyone who has been through the same thing.
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> Thanks,
> Chad
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