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I have never tried ambien before, but have heard stories about strange things people do on it. sleep eating, sleep driving, sleep sexing, etc. are these stories really true? Would you recommend talking to the PCP about ambien?

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I didn't sleep for the first 3 days and went to urgent care and got some Tylenol with cod elixir. It helped me sleep thank god. Felt 100% better the next day after sleeping.

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I have never tried ambien before' date=' but have heard stories about strange things people do on it. sleep eating, sleep driving, sleep sexing, etc. are these stories really true? Would you recommend talking to the PCP about ambien?[/quote']

I have taken it on and off for years with no problems but everyone reacts to meds differently and since it is a prescription I would definitely talk to your pcp about it. I taken ambien cr 12.5 which is an extended release tablet....good luck.

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I have never tried ambien before' date=' but have heard stories about strange things people do on it. sleep eating, sleep driving, sleep sexing, etc. are these stories really true? Would you recommend talking to the PCP about ambien?[/quote']

Fiddle ambien was one of the hardest drugs for me to kick. Don't do it :)

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Fiddle ambien was one of the hardest drugs for me to kick. Don't do it :)

Ok - thanks for the warning and i will stick to tryptophan / melatonin until sleep decides to return to normal. Two nights of better sleep so far. I do not want to get on anything that is a killer to kick. I understand tryptophan has some w/d symptoms related to the interaction with the GABA receptors. Will cross that bridge when I get to it.

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This has been good for me to read - I am 10 days post op and not sleeping as much as I did the first few days but still can't sleep more than 3 hours at a time. I usually don't have any troubles falling asleep - as a matter of fact, I will just plain go to sleep wherever I am. But, I wake up in 2-3 hours. I went to bed at 9PM this evening after only having 1 nap during the day which ended at 11:30AM - I was SO tired so I thought I would maybe sleep the night - no way. Here I am up for and hour or 2 again. It is not worrisome right now - but, next week when I am suppose to be back to work - it will cause a problem.

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How long does the insomnia last? Right now I am on medical but I cannot go back to work like this. What is safe to take with the sleeve. I have my post op appointment this Friday I can ask the surgeon as well.

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Well, after I wrote my post, I did go into bed and decided to take 1/2 Ambian pill. I was able to sleep for 5 hours. That was the longest I have slept since my surgery 11 days ago. It was a very tiny pill to start with so breaking it in half made it extremely small. Wasn't quite sure how something that tiny was going to do anything - but, it did. I would feel the jittery feeling I was feeling because of the pain medication go away. Give that a try with your doctor's approval of course.

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I plan to ask him Friday.

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The homeopathic remedies just was cutting it. Got more Ambian CR...so looking forward to a good night's sleep.

Shel in Kansas - Sleeved 5/21/13

I slept great last night after the Ambien CR. I haven't noticed and sleep walking, eating, etc. You should make sure you have 8 hours to sleep it off.

Shel in Kansas - Sleeved 5/21/13

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I've had insomnia since surgery last October. I can fall asleep relatively easily, but I have a helluva time staying asleep.

I've tried lots of things (melatonin, sleepytime tea, lavender spray, noise machine, etc.) to no avail. I think my next step is something by prescription bc I fear it's hampering my weight loss. I'm exhausted by the end of the work day and don't exercise some days bc of it. I also find myself hungrier on the days when I sleep the least. Is that "all in my head"?

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Benadryl 30 ml at bedtime. I buy it at the dollar store. It also helps with nausea.

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You can repeat it every four hours. They even have tongue strips.

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The voice of doom and gloom has entered the room!!!! :P

Yep it's me :D

Be careful of crossover addiction I didn't think it could happen because I have only every been addicted to food.

But after surgery I found myself becoming ever comforted by my medicines that helped me sleep.

It became a thing that I began to look forward to at night. That's also when I did my best eating before surgery....

It's something I have to watch for now (along with my husband he noticed me taking lots of

Benadryl a couple of months ago)

This may not apply to any of you, but I wanted to put it out there..

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Benadryl is not addictive physiologically but if you have addictive type personality you can be addicted to anything. On cable there's a show called strange addiction and some guy was addicted to blow up pool toys.

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