You forgot to add that Valerian can give you horrible, horrendous, real-seeming nightmares! Kava kava can have the same effect.
I take melatonin in a lozenge form; that way it rapidly gets into my system. I take 10 mg a night. I started out on 3 mg, but that was 20 years ago. I have tried many, many things for insomnia (up to and including Ambien and Lunesta) but was very dissatisfied with the results.
Ambien made me sleepwalk, sleepeat, go outside in my nightie with my car keys in hand (ASLEEP, mind you) and buy things online in my sleep. Lunesta made me absolutely depressed, paranoid, and suicidal (after only 5 doses; the rest got flushed) I was taking 350 mg of benadryl when I decided to give melatonin another go. I had gotten off of it for a little while after it seemed to lose efficacy for me.
I hated the way the 'scrips and benadryl made me feel the next day, which I termed "Ambien hangover".
Happy to say it's working for me, at least in the lozenge form. I put two in my mouth when I began typing this and am already feeling the effects. I have found that the tablets do not do well for me if I have food in my tummy. If anyone's interested, they are made by KAL.
I had a friend (a nurse) tell me she drove to the grocery store, bought $100 worth of candy, drove to Dairy Queen and bought several sundaes..........with her child in the car. She was asleep the entire time.
She had taken Ambien.
She had no memory of it until the next day when she saw the remnants of the ice cream and the receipt for the candy. She has been taking Ambien for years now, but she is now off of it!
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You forgot to add that Valerian can give you horrible, horrendous, real-seeming nightmares! Kava kava can have the same effect.
I take melatonin in a lozenge form; that way it rapidly gets into my system. I take 10 mg a night. I started out on 3 mg, but that was 20 years ago. I have tried many, many things for insomnia (up to and including Ambien and Lunesta) but was very dissatisfied with the results.
Ambien made me sleepwalk, sleepeat, go outside in my nightie with my car keys in hand (ASLEEP, mind you) and buy things online in my sleep. Lunesta made me absolutely depressed, paranoid, and suicidal (after only 5 doses; the rest got flushed) I was taking 350 mg of benadryl when I decided to give melatonin another go. I had gotten off of it for a little while after it seemed to lose efficacy for me.
I hated the way the 'scrips and benadryl made me feel the next day, which I termed "Ambien hangover".
Happy to say it's working for me, at least in the lozenge form. I put two in my mouth when I began typing this and am already feeling the effects. I have found that the tablets do not do well for me if I have food in my tummy. If anyone's interested, they are made by KAL.
http://www.amazon.com/Kal-KAL-Melatonin-60-Lozenges/dp/B000F4WMBG
I had a friend (a nurse) tell me she drove to the grocery store, bought $100 worth of candy, drove to Dairy Queen and bought several sundaes..........with her child in the car. She was asleep the entire time.
She had taken Ambien.
She had no memory of it until the next day when she saw the remnants of the ice cream and the receipt for the candy. She has been taking Ambien for years now, but she is now off of it!
February 2, 2009 - 3:52amThis Comment
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