Bah. I have no brain hamster. I guess I'll put the bottle away for when I might. Annoyingly enough, the anti-nausea medication he also prescribed makes me way loopy and sleepy, but when that wore off, I woke straight up. Sleepy enough that I don't want to take it during the day, not sleepy enough to get me through my strange insomnia.
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Nov 01, 2005 5:32:44 am PST #469 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
askye - Nov 01, 2005 5:33:05 am PST #470 of 10006
Thrive to spite them
Ambien always made me feel weird, very very relaxed and goofy, but I could fight it and stay awake (although I wouldn't be very coherent). Dad takes it and he fights it and then ends up staggering to bed and running into the walls because he can't walk right.
After awhile though I needed to take more and more in order to get the same effect so I stopped taking it, well that and I couldn't really afford that copay in addition to the necessary meds.
Trudy Booth - Nov 01, 2005 5:33:40 am PST #471 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So how does it make sleep easier?
My understanding is that it drops you right into REM sleep and skips the stage before it where a lot of people end up stalled out.
But I could be entirely wrong in this recollection.
sarameg - Nov 01, 2005 5:37:11 am PST #472 of 10006
I'm at that fuzzy, melting into the pillow stage right now. Unfortunately, I'm at work.
The hazards of the meds I had to take this morning for the stupid sinus irritation caused by this weather. Since they now appear to be doing the "may cause drowsiness" while I'm under the influence, this means when they wear off I'll be a bit jittery. I like it better when it is the reverse.
Dana - Nov 01, 2005 5:38:37 am PST #473 of 10006
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I'm not sure what time I fell asleep last night. It was definitely after 1AM. This morning I am fuzzy, unsurprisingly. Not enough caffeine in the world.
Theodosia - Nov 01, 2005 5:39:15 am PST #474 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Only got 5.5 hours of sleep last night. Stupid Daylight Savings Time. ::shakes fist at stupid dead legislators::
shrift - Nov 01, 2005 5:52:15 am PST #475 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have a migraine. I enrolled for benefits, and that hurt my brain. And then I read some e-mail and recalled that Friday is our annual corporate retreat.
I may cry.
Steph L. - Nov 01, 2005 5:52:34 am PST #476 of 10006
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My understanding is that it drops you right into REM sleep and skips the stage before it where a lot of people end up stalled out.
But I could be entirely wrong in this recollection.
I had to go look on Ambien's website, but apparently it maintains all the stages of sleep. Huh. I thought it dropped you right into REM sleep, too.
Apparently, Ambien works by enhancing the actions of the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid). GABA inhibits the transmission of nerve signals, thereby reducing nervous excitation in the brain. However, unlike benzodiazepines, Zolpidem appears to be more selective in its action and targets only one type of GABA receptor.
(I cut and pasted that directly from a website, BTW.)
Liese S. - Nov 01, 2005 5:56:43 am PST #477 of 10006
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Good mornings. I slept fine last night. Which is a shame because I have a ton of work to do today and should have gotten up earlier. On the plus side? Candy for breakfast.
Theodosia - Nov 01, 2005 6:00:08 am PST #478 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Steph, as long as you're looking things up (and translating into English), what does Sonata do?