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I asked my Dr. that exact question when she told me I had to stop taking alprazolam. Even taking one a night, I seldom got more than 5 hours of sleep ( I’ve been taking for over 10 years) . So I cut down to .25 mg and got less than 2 hours a night. So I tried supplementing with melatonin - no luck, cannabis- still no luck. Thus, I posed your question to her & I never got a real answer, so I went back to my .5 mg and started getting some sleep. Everything you read says how important sleep is. If I had a disease they would treat it, so why do Drs. resist treating insomnia?
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I Agree 100!!! Doctors need to treat our disease ( insomnia) with medications that help us!!! PERIOD!!
this is funny because my family doctor put me on 0.5mg of Xanax for sleep. Supposed to be as needed. That was over a year ago and now I need it every night. She doesn’t see a problem with that.
However, I am seeing a therapist for chronic anxiety and depression and I cannot get any meds for that until the family doc gets me off Xanax. I went to ge a second opinion from a psychiatrist and got the same answer: no one will talk to me about any antidepressants or any meds at all until the Xanax is out of the picture.
It seems using it as a treatment for sleep is a no-no because its addictive.
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Exactly! I was prescribed Ativan for anxiety years ago and never take more than 1 mg per day. My mother and grandmother had terrible anxiety, so I believe its somewhat hereditary. Then was given Ambien for severe insomnia (caused by anxiety) which I have had since I was young. Both meds worked to treat those conditions. So why, if you have a condition that there is a medicine for that works, do they then say "You should take that anymore ITS BAD."????? I don't know of any other conditions with a medicine to treat it where they say that. And believe me, there are a lot of drugs for some conditions that ARE BAD.