She’s off to see the doctor. DIL is driving.
Beck’s DIL is priceless. A real keeper. I’m so glad her son and DIL live “nearby.”
~VOW
I’ve been taking Ambien CR every night for over 10 years. My problem (following the passing of my wife) was that I would have “racing thoughts” as I was lying in bed. Just couldn’t fall asleep. Being without Ambien is a major problem for me and I take extra steps to ensure that my scrip is filled in a timely manner. My dosage hasn’t increased in those 10 years and it is every bit as effective as it was when I started using it.
Am I addicted to it? Probably. I have to see a shrink every six months, basically for prescription management. I’ve had no side-effects or related issues. In fact, I’ve accidentally taken a dose in the morning once or twice and it had absolutely no effect on my functioning through the day.
I have several friends, OTOH, who have tried it with some really bizarre results. As has been said already, medications affect different people different ways. For me, it’s a miracle drug.
Beck, I wake at least 3 times a night. Sometimes up to 8. Sunday nights are the worst so I will sometimes take an ‘aid’
Try these I’m a 220 pound guy, and will take three of them perhaps once a week. It’s just enough to help.
I once looked up herbal remedies for sleeplessness for my grandma. Besides the valerian, the recipes were all over the place. The only recurring ingredients were hops and mint. I told Grandma she could get that by drinking a beer and taking a breath mint.
Sorry you’re having trouble Beckdawrek.
Do try melatonin, Beck. That stuff knocks me right out.
One of my kids was taking Ambien for insomnia. One night his wife heard him moving around and got up to find him in the kitchen. He had torn his paycheck in to little pieces, added milk and was eating it with a spoon. Mixing alcohol with that stuff is a very, very bad idea.
I am home from the clinic. What’s left of me. Complete blood panel and kidney function tests. Pee’d in a cup. My BP was/is low. That’s somewhat normal for me.
Doc said throw the Ambien away. I must in the group that it affects strangely and takes awhile to get out of my system. Lay off the caffeine and try to manage my sleep patterns. God, no more tea. I taught myself to like it unsweetened now I have to learn to like it completely nekid. Might as well drink water.
I’m getting a glucose monitor. I see the nutritionist Thursday.
So…I think I’ll live.
Oh, yeah, DIL is a Nazi. (She gives you one injection…power goes right to her head…hmmm!)
OTOH, it doesn’t do squat for me, but I’m in the pocket of big pharma or something.
I’m kinda of afraid of those herbal remedies. Not sure what they would do to blood sugar. But I will talk to the nutritionist about it.
I had to take ambien in college when I was getting my depression medicine dialed in. I really could not stay asleep without some help. Unfortunately, the sleep I got from ambien felt more like being nonexistent for 8 hours instead of getting actual rest. It was about this time that I realized that any allergy medicine not labeled as “non-drowsy” would knock me right the heck out.
So I use benadryl to help me sleep if I really need it. But ambien, it didn’t do it for me.
I don’t really go by recipes, though. Everything I mentioned has actual studies behind it.
That said, hops has a study, too. But I’m not sure beer is the best delivery system. I’m not sure how much actually winds up in them. Plus then there’s the effects of the alcohol.
As far as I now, mint is more a flavor thing and to help quiet the stomach.
There are tons of good teas out there that don’t have caffeine in them at all. Plus instant decaf tea has only 1 mg of caffeine, which may be acceptable.
I can’t really recommend a specific one, as I find that I can’t even decide what I like better. Peppermint tea is lovely, though–but only hot. Even lukewarm it starts to suck.
Come to think of it, I’ve never actually tried any of my teas as iced tea, since they’re more expensive and making ice tea uses so many more tea bags. I need to check it out.
Anyways, just google caffeine free teas, and avoid those with the ingredients I already mentioned above if you don’t want them.
Though, if you can try chamomile, there are a lot of good herbal teas with that in it.
DesertWife was envious of the way I could drop off to sleep at the drop of a hat. I just pointed to her 5-cuppa day coffee habit.
I’m surprised that hops has studies supporting it. I’d look for studies if I was looking into it for myself, but Grandma wasn’t a studies kind of person. I was just glad that the herbals had something as innocuous as hops and mint. In fact a couple of the “recipes” were for making a pillow of hops and other herbs to slip into your pillowcase.
I’m a terrible person. Really.
I laughed my ass off at this.
Ambien plus alcohol got two of the Kenndy kids busted for driving under the influence.
You hear about “Ambien texting,” “Ambien sleep-eating,” and I’m sure more than one guilty person has tried an Ambien defense when it comes to murder.
True story: Mr VOW had no difficulty with Ambien. When the family doctor put me on Halcion, she changed his Ambien to Halcion, too.
Stuff worked great for me, but Mr VOW was another story. He’d be sound asleep, hollering, swearing, threatening whoever was in his dreamland.
His neurologist raised an eyebrow over that, and immediately put him back on Ambien. The neuro had to do a dance with the insurance company, but he prevailed.
I’m still snorting and guffawing at the Chefson, though. I’m sorry.
I hope he didn’t have a problem getting the paycheck reissued!
~VOW
I laughed at that too.
Gah, they are homeopathic! Plus some “minerals,” whatever that means. I’m glad they work for you, enipla, but as a matter of principle I would never purchase anything touting itself as homeopathic. They might as well say “we waved our magic wand over the bottle, that’s why it works.”
ETA: so sorry about your sleep difficulties, Beck. I completely sympathize, having been a shitty sleeper since my early 20s.
You know they put a man on the moon. Why can’t I sleep or have socks that stick together in the dryer and never get lost?
no offense but id get ta second opinion… too many docs think ya can heal your self all of a sudden these days just because they say so like after 20 years its just gonna magically happen