Xanax or ambien for sleep
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I weaned off ambien and for 2 months took no meds, and got about an hour of sleep per night. I then tried anti-depressants, lunesta, melatonin, hypnosis, acupunctire all with no affect. Eeventualy I restarted amiben and alsstarted taking Xanax as well to help with the anxiety, and was getting about 5 hours of broken sleep. 5 weeks ago I tried using just the xanax with no ambien, and I am getting the same amount of sleep.
I would recommend you try melatonin or Calms Forte or some other natural remedy, or even a sleep center, before you do medication for sleep. But if you do decide on meds, at least use one that's designed to help you sleep like Ambien, not a benzo. And remember, all of them are habit forming and some are addictive if you use them regularly, so natural is a better way to try first; the medications will always be there if you need them.
As my stress levels have begun to decrease and with the recent media coverage of problems with Xanax addiction, I decided with my physician that it was time to try something different - He prescribed Ambien for sleep with 2.5 mg Xanax during the day for the first week. The first two nights after the switch, I quickly fell into a hard sleep with the Ambien but awakened after 4 hours feeling extremely jittery-not unexpected.
I want to quit taking xanax and ambien. I have been on both for a few years. I also take Subxone.
I take 12.5 mg of ambien and .5mg of xanax 2 or 3 times per day.
Can I quit cold turkey without? I have heard xanax withdrawal can cause seizures,, but am not sure if my dose is high enough to worry about that.
Hello and welcome. You have only taken the xanax for 2 weeks, ambien only once? Have you had addiction issues before?
Have you been treated for your anxiety? Through therapy or put on an anti anxiety med? Besides xanax?
There are over the counter natural sleep aids, melatonin, alteril,
Valerian root, sleep by nature made, sleepy time and kava tea.
The symptoms you describe sound like a panic attack. Does this only happen when you try to sleep?
i used ambien with no difficulty//but some abuse ambien..i have taken it for sleep for over 10 yrs when needed without an increase in dose....and i am an addict...downers///things that make me sleepy//just r not my thing nor my doc....but i know i gotta be careful with everything i take...sleep is important to recovery....
I have Parkinsons and sleep from about 11pm to 2 am and am unable to get back to sleep. I did try xanax about for four days in a row. I woke at 2 a.m., took a .25mg each time and it put me back to sleep from 3 to 7. Worked perfect but I hear they're addictive. Klonopin is also in the benzo class and I worry it may be too strong. Trazodone is an anti-depressent and I've read scary stuff regarding that.
5mg pills up to 3 times a day as needed for anxiety. I NEVER took them that much or during the day at all for that matter. But for the last week and a half I have been taking 1mg at bedtime to help me get to sleep. Will I have horrible withdrawals if I just stop taking it at night? Today I was prescribed ambien and was afraid to take it not knowing if I should wean off the Xanax first. Anyone know if it will be fine to just stop the Xanax all together and start the ambien? Any advice?
I don't know much about klonopin, but I was prescribed Xanax and ambien for sleep, after suffering from anxiety/emotional turmoil. I was specifically told by my GP that you can take Xanax and ambien at the same time. One is a benzo and the other is a hypnotic.
I have been taking Ambien 10 mg per evening for years and in take xanax only sparingly. Recently, i've had rotator cuff surgery. I was prescribed hydrocodone 7.5 mg every four hours. I decided to reduce the ambien to 5 mg due to the interaction. I found it virtually impossible to sleep in a recliner as they have suggested (due to the sling).and then began taking 7.5 mg.
valium is a safer benzo/still addicting but not as strong as xanax....there r safer sleep meds..ambien and lunesta altho i have heard of people abusing those as well...not physically addicting as a rule tho....valerian root and ambien is what i used...many like melatonin...then there is benadryl which is usually the ingrediend in otc sleep aids like tylenol pm....anything a person uses every night to sleep can become mentally habit forming tho..even nyquil!
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.
ambien and all those other regular ol sleep meds NEVER worked for me....melatonin neither....i've used a natural product containing passionflower and tart cherry which has worked wonders (also good to take every 2-4 hours during the day for anxiety)....but i think most of all, what i JUST discovered, is that taking 1000 mg of magnesium RIGHT before bedtime does the trick.....wow.....i have been taking mag for the past 6 months....but like 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon.....
hi. at this point i can seem to easily obtain prescriptions for xanax so ambien will i have to do. i get real anxious so if i don't have xanax around the ambien has to do. so to answer your questions there are days that i take 2 at a time during the day just to stay calm, then 4 to nap, then at night around 5 sometimes more. sad thing is i don't really feel much and only sleep for about three hours straight if i am lucky.
So unfortunatly you will just have to suck it up if you want to get off of all of it. You wont sleep well for awhile but it will get better. Either that or take your ambien at night and slowly decrease it. That could help for instance if you take two pills cut down to one and a half etc. And I say one hundread percent do not take a vic for sleeeping...number one they arent made for that and number two you are addicted and abuse vics. You will just go back to using. Good luck with everything.
It appears to be similar in efficacy and like Ambien is meant for short term use only. Unless you've tried it Rozerem is one alternative that unlike Ambien or the medication you mentioned or Lunesta does not have a potential for a person to build up a tolerance to it and is an FDA approved medication that works like melatonin to adjust the sleep cycle. You could ask your psychiatrist about that.
Ambien was not your drug of choice so you don't have to start all over again but be careful because Ambien is addictive as well.
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