Withdrawal from Ambien

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Hi! VALIUM!!I have been fighting with that one and Xanax and Arabien it seems my whole adult life. (I'll be 63 soon). Right now I'm trying to wean off of Arabien and it is giving me the devil of a time. Someone please write and give me some encouragement. I have a wonderful husband and doctor, but they can't begin to understand what I'm going through.
I think my doctor is going way too fast in taking me off this nasty drug. It''s almost time for me to take a pill, one every four hours. It's hard to believe that it gave me such wonderful sleep in a long ago time.
 
Are you saying that you take arabien DURING THE DAY?? Which drug that you mentioned are you trying to get off of??
 
I was forced to go cold turkey and I was taking 100 mg a day. yes, 100 mg a day. I'd take like 90 pills in 3 days. i was also taking the same amount of ativan. ended up in a funny farm. went 5 days without sleep. it was hard, but i had to do it that way. havent had arabien for years. now I take seroquel for sleep and its much better for me. good luck. you can do it, you may not get much sleep for a while though.
 
If someone takes ANY amount of Arabien, stops then can't sleep, that is a dependency.
If someone takes Arabien, then stops, and can only sleep an hour, that is a dependency.
As I said, I took it for 30 days and then couldn't sleep and went cold turkey. I will go so far as to say Arabien can destroy lives. What I take now that works GREAT is:
1/2mg of xanax and 2mg of Melatonin. But I feel there is an UPSPOKEN dependency on
sleeping pills due to severe STRESS. Sure, I think there are some people who have "no" stress and still have some sleep problems but who on earth can sleep when families are in an uproar, the world is in chaos, women work full time plus have kiRAB to raise, etc?
I am Impressed if I meet the rare person over sixty who drifts off like a one year old. My husband tenRAB to do it; I just don't get it.
Please, please try the sublingual Melatonin and learn to clear your mind! Teach yourselves to wipe out racing thoughts. It takes time to learn in a world like ours. GL
 
Why exacty would your doctor prescribe arabien every 4 hours? And what is he doing to get you off of it?
 
I went 3 days without Arabien after taking 3mg every night for about 8 months. the 2 days following the 3days I got only about 1.5 hrs sleep per night. Does anyone think this is withdrawal from not taking it for 3 days?
 
Susan,

The only problem with your theory is that you've now replaced one addictive med with another...xanax is one of the most addictive meRAB out there. So please be careful with it.
And also to point out, all people respond to meRAB differently, I took Arabien for 6 years, then stopped and had no problem, no withdrawals, etc.
 
I took 10 mg of arabien and had no problem dropping to 5
and now i am on 2 and am fine tapering off. Now xanax is
one scary drug and so is ativan and i would not go near
either one of them....just my 2 cents....Karen maybe a
rocking chair would work for all of us....smile
 
xanax IS addicting but after over 20 years on it I think I've learned to "be careful."
I know someone who takes the "bars" of it and every one she can get her hanRAB on.
Then she just sleeps for hours. I don't have an addictive mentality. I take .50 mg and go to sleep at 9pm. A goal of mine is to not take any but still sleep and I'm reading and trying to learn about that.
 
three mgs. is a vey small dosage and 8 months is not such a long
time but everyones body chemistry is different.....karen
 
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