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Chronic insomnia horrors

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tasha7908
tasha7908

I developed insomnia 8 months ago in December 2018. It started because i was under a great deal of stress and pressure and experiencing anxiety on my job which had me working late into the mornings sometimes. I was sleeping, but having trouble falling asleep and waking too early. I panicked and instead of trying cbt-i or natural routes, melantonin etc, i ran to an urgent care doctor who gave me temazepam, which was a huge mistake to take because i became dependent on them and built a tolerance and they stopped working after a month. I havent been able to sleep since. Trazadone or amnitriptyline hasnt worked but i only tried it a few days. Ambien never worked. Lunesta worked a little but im scared to become dependent upon them. Valerian, melantonin, chammomile didn't help me. Gonna try a phosphorylated serine next i think. Or valium??

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  • lily65668
    lily65668 tasha7908

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    Not Valium (diazepam) Tasha, whatever you decide to take. Out of the frying-pan, into the fire!

    Valium is another benzo, like temazepam, but just about the worst of them. I volunteer in a mental health centre and some of our clients have been trying to get off it for up to 40 years, without success. It's a real horror. After a while you get withdrawal symptoms just staying on the same dose and have to take more to stave off the effects.

    Whatever you take, always check on-line first to make sure it's not in the benzodiazepine group.

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