Granny's gone and done it again

[Nomadicus]

We believe our mom got addicted to Ambien. In her later years.

I took Ambien years ago and it just didn't work. I never felt addicted to it at all. There was the bad one too that I took. The one that killed people when they drank alcohol and too it. Can't think of the name when I want to. It was used in Hollywood by the stars who used uppers to wake up and downers to go to sleep. I'l think of the name about 2 in the morning when I wake up. Right now I just depend on the natural melatonin that the body makes. When our bodies quit making it that's a problem. My pain mgt doc told me about how much melatonin it takes for him to sleep and I was like whoa. Way more than the label calls for. It's not regulated and evidently not dangerous in any way. I do take a half dose of Benadryll that helps too.

There is a newer form of Ambien that didn't work any better than the original for me.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I do believe O do believe I do.....

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Ambien didn't put you to sleep? When I'd take it, I'd not feel sleepy, but then suddenly I'd be lights out. I'd wake up in the morning with my phone on my face and still logged in to BYC and sometimes my last post would be a garbled mess. Often I'd be really glad I hadn't hit Post. Kinda like Larry, that first night he took pain meds, lol!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

What I take now, I feel it coming on so I say good night and log off. Usually.

 

[Nomadicus]

Temazepan (sp) is the new name of a dangerous sleeping med as far as I'm concerned.

Restoril is the name of the really bad bad med. Very addicting I think. Short term only type of med I would thing.

 

[Nomadicus]

Feels like it ought to be 10 and it's not 8 yet. What or who messed with the orbit of the planet around the sun.?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

shoot, I didnt take my meds. BB

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Feels like it ought to be 10 and it's not 8 yet. What or who messed with the orbit of the planet around the sun.?

I agree. But what can one expect when one comes to bed to read. ... or get on BYC ... at 6 pm, lol?

 

[Nomadicus]

shoot, I didnt take my meds. BB

I'm gonna take mine at 9:30 tonight. I'd take them now If I knew it would be safe.

I agree. But what can one expect when one comes to bed to read. ... or get on BYC ... at 6 pm, lol?

Don't know. I come and go off and on during the day and sometimes in the middle of the night......

 

[Granny Hatchet]

they were due an hr ago. I hurt my stinking thumb. Holding the coffee cup of water and it twisted in my hand.