"Richard Evans" <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Marie" <marie4547@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>OH! MY! GOD! Why does anyone take this stuff???
>
> If you had chronic, intractable insominia you wouldn't have to ask.
> I'm not talking about just tossing and turning a while before going to
> sleep, or an occasional sleepless night. I'm talking about routinely
> getting less than two hours sleep per night for months, even years on
> end. I'm talking about being involuntarily awake for up to 36 hours at
> a stretch and still not being able to fall asleep, I'm talking 3-5
> days at a time with virtually no sleep, until you are so sleep
> deprived you can't work, drive or even carry on a conversation. I'm
> talking getting to the point where you look longingly at the .44 in
> the nightstand and thinking "I know how I can get some sleep."
>
> Under those conditions, you'd ingest horse ****, if it let you sleep.
I've dealt with anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia for about 7 years now.
I'm lucky if I get 3 hours of sleep at a time. I've been up for 3 days
many
times, cried with fatigue and confusion and inability to focus. I lost my
job over this. I took Trazadone for a couple of years and slept like a
baby,
but with my anti-anxiety meds it was causing problems... blurred vision,
leg
cramps, shakes, dizzy spells, etc., and I found out the combination of the
two could lead to seizures so I had to choose. The anxiety is worse than
the
insomnia so I chose to stop taking the Trazadone. I know how hard it is
to
cope when you don't get any sleep, and I believe you Rich when you say
that
about the .44 in the nightstand, mines a .357, but, we go on, don't we?
Hope
dies hard. I doze when I can, nap when I can, and some nights I sleep for
3
hours. But most nights it's just "drifting". But I still wouldn't take
Ambien after hearing all this bad stuff about it, even if I didn't have to
take the anti-anxiety meds.
Uh.... I think I'd pass on the horse **** too.
Me Marie
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