On Dec 10, 5:35 pm, "Marie" <marie4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
..
>
> 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
Please disregard my somewhat thoughtless (somewhat?) remarks earlier
about not sleeping. Obviously, you know what it's like, and I
apologize for not thinking first.
Okay, you've heard the bad stuff, but it's actually pretty rare. Most
people have no problems on Ambien, because they, unlike me, take the
medicine and then go to bed. I have a tendency to think I need to
finish that one thing before I forget. The Ambienesia (cleaning house
and not remembering it) was in the beginning, and lasted for about two
or three months, and it happens very rarely now (maybe once every
other or ever third month).
Your doctor would know if it would work for you. I take muscle
relaxants, anti-anxiety meds, and Ambien at night. I take various
biologic medications for RA during the day. Then there is Lunesta.
The only thing I've heard against it (other than it doesn't work for
my insomnia) is that it leaves a sort of metallic taste in your mouth
for the first month. Then there is nothing else.
There is no reason you should have to suffer like that. I'm sure
you've discussed various options with your doctor, and between the two
of you, you will make the decision that best works for you. I had
gone for 40 years of 1 to 2 hours of sleep every night (even as a
baby, I only slept 2 to 4 hours in a 24 hour period, and didn't bother
mom unless I had need of something I couldn't do, or so she always
told me, lol).
You do learn to function after a while, but when the RA started, it
became a bigger issue that I sleep more. After the Fibromyalgia
surfaced, sleep became a necessity, not that I sleep all that much
now, but more than I used to.
I do hope you can find something that helps you. Sleeplessness is
miserable, even in the best of times.
Smokie Darling (Annie)
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