Posted by utopizen on August 7, 2005, at 8:37:54
In reply to Re: Ambien and Lunestra, posted by Fugly on August 6, 2005, at 14:32:06
There is no such thing as "insomnia rebound."
You wouldn't take Ambien unless you had insomnia to begin with.
Ambien is suppose to be part of a comprehensive, temporary treatment approach to help you adjust as you encompass more comrpehensive treatments like behaviorial therapy, relaxation techniques, self-hypnosis on your iPod, Eastern breathing and meditation instruction, and so on.
Of course, if you think insomnia is intrinsic to your mental pathology, you're basically hypnotizing yourself into not sleeping without a drug.
If you think I don't know how horrid it feels to have insomnia for over a year's time, I would think that over again. I had a psychiatrist a switched to that wouldn't give in to my demands for Ambien, which forced me to actually experiment with Yoga, excercise daily on my bike for 2 hours a day, and learn to stop obsessing over my meds and sleep schedule like I was conducting my own clinical research trial.
You should try it sometime. Most people who can't sleep tend to lay in bed staring at the wall for over 30 minutes instead of getting out of bed before the 30 minute mark hits. Otherwise, you enter a non-sleeping trance all night long.
Take a sedating SNRI like Remeron, or some Seroquel, or something else.
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