Okay well, I think I might have insomnia problems? I am 14 female, I usually can’t fall asleep for around 4-5 hours even if I am tired and the room is silent. Also, I NEVER feel refreshed after sleeping (even if it’s for over 8 hours). I often have other problems too like OCD and I have many fears/phobias which also keep me awake. I do have some stress and lately have been feeling kind of depressed.
Please help!
Chosen Answer:
Insomnia sucks.
I used to have it.
Main things are lifestyle changes. First off, never do anything in your bed except for sleeping. Then your brain associates your bed with sleeping, instead of reading, doing homework, watching TV, you know. Second, an hour before you go to bed, turn of the music, the computer, the phone, and maybe even the TV, or just anything that keeps your mind going. Your mind will shut down, then you can go to bed when your mind is shut down.
And about waking up feeling not refreshed, it’s because you’re getting up too early. Even if you go to bed at 8, and you get up at 4 AM(getting 8 hours of sleep), your body won’t like it. Because of your Circadian Rhythm, at 4 AM, you are still asleep to your body. I’m sure you don’t get up at 4, but if you get up at 6 AM, you are still getting up too early, and I know that sometimes it’s unavoidable. But try to make allowances to allow yourself to get up later. Skip a shower in the morning, instead take one before you go to bed. If you HAVE to have one, shorten it. Also, lay out all of your clothes before you go bed.
Also, just relax. Sleeping is fun.
I hope I helped. 
by: bob
on: 6th January 08
what is better and works better ambien cr or lunesta? what works better with less side effects and no withdrwal symptoms when the medictaion for sleep is stopped ambien cr or lunesta?
Chosen Answer:
This would be a very good question to discuss with a doctor. If you are having problems sleeping, make an appointment to see your PCP or a Psychiatrist. Good Luck.
by: Hopefully Helpful
on: 11th January 10
im not sure if i have some kind of insomnia. i cant maintain sleeping patterns. i have a lot of trouble falling asleep, but i also have a difficult time waking up. even if i sleep for 10 or 12 hours i have trouble waking up. so my question is a: do i have some form of insomnia and what is it called. and b: what are some possible medications/ solutions.
Chosen Answer:
There are three different types of insomnia, each with their own type of treatments.
http://knownhealthsolutions.com/insomnia.html
Make sure you know which one you have, before you waste your money!
by: Dr. Eric J
on: 30th May 08
I have an extremely hard time sleeping to the point that I get complete anxiety attacks at night. My gyno prescribed me Ambien last week and I have been taking it trusting that it is safe. It helps me a great deal, but I still worry about it hurting my baby. On the other hand, though I don’t think my doctor would give it to me if it was bad. Did you take it?
Chosen Answer:
I have asked for Ambien because I have severe insomnia. My doctor wouldn’t give it to me. She only game me Zoloft to help me relax.
by: ~Jess~ Had a New Year’s Baby
on: 27th August 09
Ambien is a pretty harmless drug right? Or am I missing something? I’ve been having trouble as of late sleeping due to my husband is about to deploy in one month. Is ambien a popularly abused drug?
Chosen Answer:
any sleeping aid can be abused, and can make you dependant as well.
I should think how easy or difficult it would be would depend on your relationship with your doctor, and whether or not you have a history of abusing other medications.
by: essentiallysolo
on: 19th February 09
First, if you’re just going to tell me to explore natural remedies… thanks but no thanks.
Just wanting to find out how to increase the effectiveness of Ambien so that I fall asleep faster. I know to take it on an empty stomach.
Chosen Answer:
dont take it every night, try to sleep without it
all sleeping pills eventually lose their effectiveness if tasken every night
melatonin tablets sometimes help with insomnia
by:
on: 28th January 12
I have been struggling with insomnia lately and it has begun to affect my ability to work. Are there any insomnia medications that can be prescribed to those under 18?
The thing is Trazidone kind of scares me. I have had friends on that and it has thrown them off so badly. They wake up in a haze and can’t shake it for hours. I don’t want that.
Chosen Answer:
i hate to say it but you’re not going to find a sleeping medication that doesn’t have some sort of hangover effect to it.
trazadone is a good sleeping medication, it’s not addictive and if you take it at the correct time you will not wake up a zombie! they are probably taking it way too late at night.
The other options are melatonin which you can buy at a health food store. It helps you sleep well too, and the hangover is about the same as Trazadone.
Then you have the addictive drugs which are terrible in my opinion. I became addicted to these sleeping meds.
The next ones are addictive as hell! zopiclone is known as IMOVANE , if you live in the united states, it’s known as LUNESTA and the drug is eszopiclone which is really no different than plain zopiclone that we have in Canada.
Ambien is chemically called Zolpidem, it is also addictive as hell and i wouldn’t suggest going on it!
Then there are the Benzodiazepines such as Ativan (lorazepam) and Klonopin (Clonazepam) and many other like Valium (Diazepam) and Temazepam, Dalmane (flurazepam)
These are horrible for you and very addictive and you will probably like the effect it has on you because it relaxes you totally and makes you forget all your worries! it’s honestly harder than heroin to get off of when you are addicted and if you run out of pills and you go into withdrawal you can die from seizures and it’s very likely you will die if you have a significant benzodiazepene habit.
I had a 24mg Ativan habit…..most people take .5mg or 1mg to help them sleep or to help with anxiety… so imagine how much my 24mg was and how messed up I was! I didn’t even know how screwed up i was my family had to do an intervention!
STAY OFF BENZOS and other hypnotics such as AMBIEN and LUNESTA!!!!
by:
on: 20th July 11
According to the Yahoo! Philippines News article http://bit.ly/d1wR2R, about 50% of adults have occasional insomnia while 10% have chronic insomnia. There are different causes which means there are different ways to deal with it as well. Have you experienced insomnia? If so, how did you deal with it? What did you do to beat insomnia?
Chosen Answer:
Yes I have had insomnia for some 30 years and counting. This is how I deal with it.
Between 10pm – midnight sleep 2 hours. Then do business preparation for 1 hour over a glass of wine. As my thinking slows down I go back to sleep for another couple of hours. Then get on the phone to Europe (they are 8 hours ahead) conducting my business. Around 7am I go to sleep for 2-3 hours again. In the afternoon a siesta.
Now that is because I have had years to handle my insomnia symptoms; think through insomnia remedies. I believe that most insomnia treatment comes from a thinking self. It is too easy to go from pill to pill. From time to time I take melatonin – that works for a couple of months and then…..
Everyone is stuck on traditional sleep times. So us insomnia sufferers need to think out of the box.
Different age groups suffer differently. Teens are short on experience, and struggling to handle what they think is teenage insomnia, as apart from temporary sleep disorders.
Step one – organize your time. Get routine in your life. Let mind and body sync.That cuts down the confusion. Refuse to get stressed from 2 hours before bedtime: read if you like, pretend to study by reading up on classwork if you can.
Try to get from under the headlights. By any insomnia definition you do not have insomnia: just teenage stress.
Try reading the below web site which gives you a basic understanding about insomnia. The blogs will help.
by: JT1998
on: 5th March 10
I took a 10mg ambien last night around 11pm and want to take risperdal tonight around 730pm -8:00 , (without the ambien tonight) just worried that they could interact somehow, havent been sleeping and taking risperdal is the only thing that helps sometimes.
Also took ]codeine at 6am is there
any interaction with these drugs , being that I am taking them spaced apart?
Chosen Answer:
There is a possibility of a moderate drug-drug interaction between these drugs. However, it may not occur in everybody taking these drugs together. So you could take these medicines together but it would be a good idea not to be alone when you take the first concommitant doses, just in case you did have any CNS or respiratory depression. If after the few doses you didn’t have any adverse effects then you should be fine. If your dose goes up then please have someone monitor you again.
Please see the link below for detailed information.
http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.php
by: Kate from Drugs.com
on: 30th December 08
What Is Ambien (Zolpidem) ?
Ambien is a sedative, also called a hypnotic. It affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause sleep problems (insomnia).
Ambien is used for the short-term treatment of insomnia (difficulty falling or staying asleep). This medication causes relaxation to help you fall asleep.
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