Re:MRI scheduled for nerve damage?

[Guest guest]

Dayle,

I'm sorry I didn't respond to your sleep question and now I don't remember what

it was.

I've taken ambien for the last nine years. It has worked very well, but I think

my brain has finally become used to it because it does't work as well now as it

used to. So, I think I may try to come off of it now that my kids are a little

older and more independent. I told this morning that I'm going to have

to start staying up later at night and sleeping later in the morning. I have

trouble falling asleep (wide awake when I lay down) and then when I do finally

fall asleep, I can't get up in the morning.

With the ambien, I do notice that it takes me longer to get going in the

morning, so it probably has somewhat of a hangover effect. I haven't tried any

of the other sleep meds, but the rheumatologist was wondering if that might be a

good idea. I don't know. The more meds I can get off of, the better, in my

opinion. I think they may be the root cause of my stomach trouble, which I'm

still dealing with after 14 months. Of course, now they've prescribed lyrica

for my fibro, so that's supposed to make you sleepy. I'll give it a try, but if

the pain doesn't lessen, I'm not staying on it. It's an $80 copay, if you can

believe that!!!! The ambien now comes in a generic and is a $30 copay, which

beats the earlier name brand $60! The lyrica is brand new so there is no

generic available, unfortunately.

Chelle