Throughout my life including middle school and high school. I've always had problems sleeping, and I would take Tylenol PM, just to go to sleep. And that's very unhealthy for my liver. So I was diagnosed with Insomnia, but this is where the problem begins. They gave me the medice Ambien, and it turns out that Ambien is very addicting! Now when I take ambien, I'll end up taking 1-2 a night, and I won't even go to sleep, but instead i'll stay awake on it, and it gets you high. Heres what I don't understand, I don't like getting high, I want to sleep, I want to have a sleep schedule, where I'm awake during the day and what not. But yet after I take the meds I don't sleep? Then when I do sleep, and wake up, I'm like ugh, I really need to stop. And I'll go through 30 pills in 2 weeks, I feel like an addict and I never thought of myself in such a way, it hurts me, and makes me cringe. I don't want to become an addict. Now I was going to tell my doctor about this, but if I tell my doctor "Oh, I'm addicted to ambien" They'll not only take me off it, but they won't give me other medicine, because they'll think I'll become addicted to everything. And I don't want that either, so I was debating to tell my doctor, that I want to slowly come off Ambien, and maybe get something else, because Ambien doesn't seem to be working anymore. But anyways that's my problems with sleeping I just have insomnia and sleep apnea and my body doesn't fall asleep, I'll just stay up and stair at the ceiling.
Throughout my life including middle school and high school. I've always had problems sleeping, and I would take Tylenol PM, just to go to sleep. And that's very unhealthy for my liver. So I was diagnosed with Insomnia, but this is where the problem begins. They gave me the medice Ambien, and it turns out that Ambien is very addicting! Now when I take ambien, I'll end up taking 1-2 a night, and I won't even go to sleep, but instead i'll stay awake on it, and it gets you high. Heres what I don't understand, I don't like getting high, I want to sleep, I want to have a sleep schedule, where I'm awake during the day and what not. But yet after I take the meds I don't sleep? Then when I do sleep, and wake up, I'm like ugh, I really need to stop. And I'll go through 30 pills in 2 weeks, I feel like an addict and I never thought of myself in such a way, it hurts me, and makes me cringe. I don't want to become an addict. Now I was going to tell my doctor about this, but if I tell my doctor "Oh, I'm addicted to ambien" They'll not only take me off it, but they won't give me other medicine, because they'll think I'll become addicted to everything. And I don't want that either, so I was debating to tell my doctor, that I want to slowly come off Ambien, and maybe get something else, because Ambien doesn't seem to be working anymore. But anyways that's my problems with sleeping I just have insomnia and sleep apnea and my body doesn't fall asleep, I'll just stay up and stair at the ceiling.