Ambien dosage range
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Your FT4 is not a value I recognize as an FT4 value. Can you supply normal range? TSH does vary considerably normally. So your being off meds for 5 days may not have been the WHOLE explanation for the rise. My endo says that the variation in TSH is a percentage. So, the higher it is, the more drastic the swings.
According to your labs, you are HYPO, not hyper. There are drugs (like beta-blockers) that will help control the palps, and they do really work. Hope you get some relief soon.
and the top of the range is 1.77. My FT3 is 3.1 and the top of the range is 4.4. My TSH is 1.13 and the bottom of the range is 0.45. These levels all seem good. I still suffer from insomnia, tinnitus, neuropathy in one foot and occasionally ED. I believe these symptoms are a result of hypothyroidism. ED is directly related to my Synthroid dosage. I dropped from 100 mcg to 75 and had no libido or function... Upon returning to 100 mcg libido is good and function are ok.
From your test results your Free T4 was a bit lower than we normally suggest, which is middle of the range, at minimum. Your Free T3 is even lower in its range, which shows that your body is not converting T4 to T3 very well. Free T3 is the thyroid hormone that correlates best with symptoms. Many members say that symptom relief required Free T4 at the middle of its range, and Free T3 in the upper third of its range, or as necessary to relieve symptoms.
The highest recommended dosage of regular ambien (not CR) is 10 mg daily at bedtime. That doubling of the dose is a troubling issue since once that runs its course, where do you go from there? I would attempt to begin a tapering down with the cooperation of your doctor otherwise eventually you may have to go to a detox facility. The fact that you aren't taking any other medications (or are you?) should make the tapering a bit easier.
I have been taking Ambien for sleep for about a month. I take 17.5mg (one whole tablet, and 3/4 of another) because I had to increase my dosage several times, and I upped it by 1/4 tablet each time. I didn't quite make it to two tablets before I got to the point where I don't need it, but am basically addicted to it.
The condition requiring this is slowly fading, and I would like to eliminate my dependence on Ambien completely. How do I go about doing this?
Sometimes a patient can get over medicated on the thyroid medication. I should know, i have had to lower my dosage four times in the past 2 years due to my body becoming tolerant to the dosage given. My body still acted like it was hyper. Get her TSH results.
My insomnia is part of my life now no doubt about it. I am currently on Trazodone for sleep, but does not help. I am also on Ambien.
The plan is to take both at betdime and gradually reduce the ambien dosage until I no longer need it at all. The trazodone is supposed to help me sleep when the ambien wears off. He said the trazodone was not addictive and I could easily quit it after the ambien is out of my system.
Does anyone have any experience with this and does it sound like a plan that will work? I've only been taking the ambien for three months.
I went online to check my lab results on 4-26-13 B12 542 range (211-946) on 10-14-13 4.98 range (211-946) TSH 9-5-12 1.39 range (.27 -4.2) on 9-25-13 TSH 5.5 range (.27-4.2}. All that was done was the TSH. The only one who did a tsh and free t4 was the renal doctor on 10-25-13. I reduced it from 112 mcg to 100 mcg.
t apply to everyone) is that FT4 should be about mid range and FT3 should be in the upper 1/3 of its range. Your FT4 is only at 36% of the range and we have no idea about FT3, so we don't know if you are converting the FT4 to FT3 adequately or not.
You should ask for the FT3 test, next time you get TSH and FT4; if she refuses, you should probably find another doctor, because one who refuses to look at FT3, and/or doses based on TSH, will keep you very ill.
I came off the same dosage as you 12 weeks ago, except I also quit the ambien at the same time. I was prescribed the .5 xanax for sleep and took it at night only. Well, eventually I needed 1mg to sleep,and at the same time I was experiencing rebound nausea, anxiety and all sorts or weird feelings during the day, due to the short half life of xanax. The ambien had also stopped helping me sleep after several months of usage on and off.
Before I began the clonazepam the ambien was very effective, but after I started the clonazepam the ambien was worthless. I think that is because the two classes of drugs share cross-tolerance. I have been curious about trazadone as a sleep aid since I have a hard time falling asleep most of the time. I am ok once I fall asleep and I sleep through the night but falling asleep can take me half the night w/o any meds to make me drowsy.
I am almost at day 20 and have no desire to EVER have a frggin opaite again. I could have never acheived this without ambien and xanex. I have always had panic attacks and never been a good sleeper. I know before the wd from opiates never let me sleep so I would take about 30mg of ambien and when that runsout I switch to my xanex. I sleep well but now I want to be off everything is my body gonna freak out. I take about 2mg of xanex right now.
Is that T4 result for free T4 or total T4. Also, what is its reference range shown on the lab report? Have you ever had the most important thyroid test, for free T3 (FT3)?
Free T3 is four times as active as FT4, plus FT3 correlates best with hypo symptoms, including low metabolism. If you haven't been tested for free T3, that should be done.
Like you, I didn't think I could do the hydrocodone and ambien. I'm trying to tapper off the ambien also. I was on 10mg. how much did you reduce it and for how long? Thank you for your post.
I am sorry but i am going to just say it, no way to the Ambien, and come on you know the dosage, we all know the dosage we are addicts, if it said take 1 we all took 2 plus. Get in the bath, have some sleepy time tea, get in bed and read a book, and just breathe and relax and go to sleep, if you cant sleep meditate, read, and or pray. You got this, i know you have it in you to fight.
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