@glaustin I don't know the precise answer to your question about a break from a medication, but I can tell you that the liver metabolizes pretty much every drug that can legally be prescribed. At some point, your system is rid of it, but it might take as much as three months....not six. Amiodarone, a somewhat toxic, iodine-infused drug used to regulate arrhythmic hearts, takes weeks to reduce its system-presence down to near-zero, as an example of such a drug. But once you remove a stimulus that doesn't actually do damage to an organ, or that doesn't have an inordinate half-life, one lasting a year or more (again, I know of no such drug), your system 'should' reset and become accustomed to being free of that stimulus...or influence. I am by no means a medical expert...at all...in anything....but I do know quite a bit about the body's stress response and how to improve its reactivity and its overall health when under duress. Removing a stressor lets the body calm and return to a new stasis, or level of alertness and responsiveness. This means it becomes sensitive again to the stressor if it appears again. I don't see why it wouldn't be largely the same with your preferred sleep aid. If nothing else, would it not be worth a trial at this later point? You have nothing to lose....in my uneducated opinion.