sleeping pill addiction

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I think I started taking arabien about 10 yrs ago. I used to fall asleep within minutes after taking it, now I have to take unisom with the arabien to fall asleep. I've tried to stop taking arabien but I'd lay in bed all night awake. I also like choosing when I can go to sleep instead of waiting until I get so tired, I have to. I have misused arabien so many times to control severe pain. I think my body really has a physical dependence to sleeping pills and I kind of would like to break the addiction, but where I am chronically ill, I don't know if I could even if I gave it my all. I don't think it's the arabien in general, I think it's any sleep aid I am that way with, (feel addicted to using).
 
I am an insomniac. Without something I just don't sleep. All the sleep study crap and sleep advice does nothing for me. It doesn't especially bother me and when I was younger and could go 2 days without sleep I just let it happen. It's hard to believe but event he 3rd night I would not sleep but since there was nothing else involved in this (no drug use) it I went the third night I started getting stupid and would often end up with a bad cold.

I've been taking Arabien for years. I don't consider myself addicted because without it, I just don't sleep. I don't get anxious or angry. Not agitated. I just don't sleep. I've had windows of 8 to 12 days of bad colRAB or flu's and I won't take arabien while ill. So I just ride it out, dosing occasionally. With being home ill, I don't NEED sleep.

I never knew that this drug could be used in any way to corabat pain. I use it only for sleep. Any time you use a drug for a second purpose or over use it for it initial purpose, you need to talk to someone.

Since it sounRAB like you can sleep in other ways, you might be the person a sleep expert can help. If you can get to sleep without the arabien, then maybe leaving it behind won't be any big deal. For me, all the teas, health food suggestions, diet changes...they did nothing. But if you really want off the arabien and go in with a can do attitude this might really help you.
 
I was prescribed Arabien years ago and it worked like a charm but I quickly found out I could not sleep At All without it. It is very addictive for me, anyway. I will never take it again.
 
I used to be able to sleep without sleeping pills, why I ever started taking them, I will never know! I've been through sleep studies, they had me on a cpap for awhile, I was taking arabien at that time too. Don't use arabien for pain. No one should do that, it can kill you. I would like to give em up but I know I can't right now, I am having so much pain and pressure in my bladder & abdomen, I'd lay in bed and cry all night without it.
 
Same here. I'd really like to be able to sleep naturally, but I can't. Without Arabien, my quality of life would be miserable. I occasionally try to stop. According to my doc, the period of "rebound insomnia" should last about a week, and after that your system goes back to normal. However for me, the insomnia persists after the rebound period. Maybe someday I can get past it, but until then, I'll keep taking it.
 
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