sshhh! he's sleeping!

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i am going to make on post, then collapse. i did manage to engage him in a discussion last night about the fact that he not only started snoring, he stopped taking the trazadone. he is so out of it, tho. wow, what a conversation.
but pills or no, he is on vacation now, and if he can get some sleep, things will be better.
i think if i go over there now, and just sneak into bed, we will both be able to catch a nap. i have not been able to sleep with him if he is snoring. but maybe we can take a nap. the room is dark and the air is cranked, and i am going to collapse now.
thanks again all.

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1. never mind

he woke up when i snuck in. shot myself in the foot again.

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2. trazodone makes me snore, too

However, I've altered my sleep meds and that seems to help. I cut my trazodone down to 50mg (from 100mg), and also started taking 10mg Ambien. I was just taking the Ambien for a while, but I had a bad habit of waking up @ 3:00 AM and not going back to sleep.

The trazodone brings on a very sound, deep sleep in most people-- hence the snoring. However, I've noticed that if I take more than 50mg, I have very strange, bad dreams.

To bad psychiatric pharmacology is such an inexact science.

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3. too bad indeed

my experiences with my daughter have both helped an hindered this whole thing. but they sure did bring this home to me. pills are an educated guess. period.
he has always snored. he is not taking the trazdone, mostly because the doctor was appalled that i shared my pills with him on the advice of a shrink. :wtf: he is taking ambien, which the internist gave him to shut me up. i do think that the trazadone was helping him, i think that he got so bad because he quit taking it, and i think that it wouldn't hurt him. the m.d. told him he could keep taking it if he wanted, but accepted his story that it had been giving him tons of terrible side effects. he had a couple of small things, and they were going away as we fiddled with the dose. but taking medical advice from anyone but a doctor means you are crazy. not being able to remember that you felt great last week is normal.

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4. I'm a little afraid of Ambien myself

Although it has helped me, Ambien can be addictive-- not very good for somebody like me who has addiction on both sides of the family tree.

However, it's the best tool we have right now, so I'll continue on it for the time being.

Does your hubby wake up in the middle of the night with the Ambien? That was my major problem-- I'd be wide awake at 3:00 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep for the life of me. Thank Allah for the BBC World Service-- otherwise I'dve been bored stupid! :D

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5. i am getting pissed at this doc, anyway

after having her prescribe several dangerous meds for me, seeing the drug reps in her office nearly every visit, and knowing that she has been taking some very nice vacations. i told her recently that i would not take any new drugs, as i did not think that the fda had been doing its job for a long time. one more comment for the case against my sanity.
so, she dissed a good, old, reliable, appropriate med, recommended by the right doctor, for really the wrong, dangerous, expensive drug. good doctoring there. but she wrote it to shut me up, because i was yelling sleep!!! sleep!! it does seem to be knocking him out. and the sleep hygiene measures are helping him stay out. by next week, i'm convinced, we will be laughing at all this.