Guest guest Posted September 12, 2000 Report Share Posted September 12, 2000 " took me off elavil cause it wasn't helping me sleep that much and put me on ambien (i think a lot of you take this) " Hi Debbie, I started out taking Ambien about 4 weeks after my gall bladder/fundo surgery in April. This helped for a while. Puts you right to sleep (with in 30 minutes) so make sure it is the last thing you do each day. I would take mine at about 10pm and be asleep by 10:30. After a month or two of this, I started waking up in the middle of night, around 2am and not being able to go back to sleep. When this started happening every single night, I called my PCP about it. He put me on elavil as well. Now I take both pills before going to bed. And I still wake up a lot around 2am, but am able to go back to sleep. This morning though I had to sit up for an hour before I returned to bed. The thing that worries me is Ambien is suppose to be for short term use... And I have already been on it for several months. Good Luck with the new GI and new Meds!! Lots of Hugs ReeAnn _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2000 Report Share Posted September 12, 2000 In a message dated 9/12/00 9:03:16 AM Central Daylight Time, ReeAnnEgroups@... writes: << started out taking Ambien about 4 weeks after my gall bladder/fundo surgery in April. This helped for a while. Puts you right to sleep (with in 30 minutes) so make sure it is the last thing you do each day. I would take mine at about 10pm and be asleep by 10:30. After a month or two of this, I started waking up in the middle of night, around 2am and not being able to go back to sleep. When this started happening every single night, I called my PCP about it. He put me on elavil as well. Now I take both pills before going to bed. And I still wake up a lot around 2am, but am able to go back to sleep. This morning though I had to sit up for an hour before I returned to bed. The thing that worries me is Ambien is suppose to be for short term use... And I have already been on it for several months. >> hi. took my fist dose of the ambien last night and i slept most of the day - i just could not stay awake. i don't know if it relaxed me enough to try & play catch up for all the rest i've missed or what. i'll see what happens tomorrow. thanks for the information, i'll have to see how it works on me. debbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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