"Smokie Darling (Annie)" <Barnabus1993@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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)
No offense taken from anyone. None of us know what the others here go
through in their personal lives until we share it, so saying something
against a certain practice stands a reasonable chance of "hitting the nail
on the head" for another of us. Being offended by a remark by someone that
doesn't know us isn't very fair. So, remark away! I don't know about
anyone
else but I feel it's educational to hear others views and experiences.
I did get the impression that the effects of the Ambien were more the norm
than the rare effects. Glad you cleared that up. And if compulsive house
cleaning was a common side affect I'd be all over that stuff! LOL! The way
it is I don't have the energy to clean very much but the basics and the
worst of the "messes". As far as the "Ambienesia" I can't remember sh*t
anyway so I probably wouldn't notice it.
I've never been one to sleep more than 6 hours a night anyway, and
anything
over that always left me groggy for most of the day, so losing half of
that
sleep time isn't as bad as it would be for someone who normally slept 8 -
10
hours. The dozing and naps help a lot. I learned it from my cats. Once you
get used to it you can get some pretty good relaxing hours in and although
it doesn't replace sleep, it does help. It takes discipline though to make
yourself stay still and rest.
I've tried several anti-depressant, anti-anxiety drugs over the years, and
the one I'm on now, Welbutrin, has helped the most, but I think it's time
to
increase the dosage as I'm still on the minimum and it's almost a year. I
just found out about the contraindication with the Trazadone, which I had
been taking for the past 5 years, so I have yet to "talk" to my doctor
about
it. I'm a little ticked off that he didn't know not to prescribe them
both,
especially since he's been trying to figure out why I was having the leg
cramps, dizzy spells and blurred vision! I haven't been back to see him
since I found out, and I'm not sure how I want to approach him on it. I
found about the contraindication at at www.drugs.com where you can
register,
enter your meds, and get a rundown of their actions, interactions,
dosages,
etc. The only other med I take is Labelalol for high blood pressure, and
it
didn't have any contraindications with the others so I feel okay about
that,
except that it doesn't seem to work very well, but with the anxiety I feel
that HBP is probably expected. I just need the right med for that, and my
faith in my doctor has been shaken so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I
might change doctors, which I hate to do because I've been going to this
one
for over 10 years. I'd hate to start over.
RA and Fibromyalgia! You know pain. I hope you at least can keep that
under
a tolerable level of control.
Glad you changed the subject line! LOL! This is very OT!
Me Marie
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