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Cindi sue, I am a long term insomniac (50 years) which only gets worse the older I get. In answer to your questions, I tried Mirtazapine, and maybe it is just my psychology, but I had terrible nightmares. When I complained to the psychiatrist, he upped my dose and the nightmares got worse until the third time the dose got upped and my nightmares took on the style of horror movies. I had never had a nightmare before that drug and I don’t have them now. I have been on everything from OTC drugs through probably a dozen RX drugs. Ambien was the best although I never got a full 7 hours sleep - only about 5. It too finally stopped working and now I make sleep cocktails out of a few different types of rx drugs which get me about 3 hours sleep and when I wake up I take a few more and get another 3 hours sleep. While on Ambien, I never sleep walked, ate or drove although I have read about that happening to some people. I am planning on asking my doctor for an Ambien CR rx since I have not had any ambien in at least 6 months. Maybe I’ll get lucky.
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I took Ambien years ago, and it helped me sleep 7-8 hours. The problem was I still had horrific night sweats and anxiety. My psychiatrist switched me to Klonopin, which was a wonderful drug for 15 years. I took 1mg every night, never increased it and I slept so well. No night walking or sleeping or any of that, not with Ambien or with Klonopin. Now I'm not sleeping great with mirtazipine and occasional CBT/THC gummy but I am sleeping - may be broken or light sleep, but I feel ok the next day.
It's just so amazing to me (and sad) that doctors let so many people not get the sleep they need simply because they are against the sleep meds that truly work.....and the doctors let these people suffer......and not get much needed sleep! It's really Outrageous to me!!
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So sorry you’re going through this! Not sleeping and thinking about not sleeping every night is tortuous. Although it didn’t work well for me, have you tried cbt-I? Also, mirtazapine is used for sleep at low doses, 7.5 mg