geez askye. how sad.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 3:28:15 pm PDT #10161 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Anne W. - Mar 20, 2012 3:35:56 pm PDT #10162 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Question for the group. I just had a huge anxiety-provoking fight with my mom. Things are going to be okay, but I'm a wreck at the moment and am worried I will not be able to sleep. I sometimes take 10mg of Ambien to help me sleep. How bad would it be if I took 15 or 20 tonight?
Anne W. - Mar 20, 2012 3:36:18 pm PDT #10163 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
And because it needs its own post:
askye, that is awful. I am so sorry.
Dana - Mar 20, 2012 3:42:10 pm PDT #10164 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Anne, I will say that I've taken 20mg and it hasn't killed me. Maybe try 15 and keep that extra half in reserve?
askye - Mar 20, 2012 3:43:13 pm PDT #10165 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I think you'll be okay. You might be a little more groggy in the morning.
billytea - Mar 20, 2012 3:44:35 pm PDT #10166 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
askye, that's awful. I'm sorry to hear that.
Steph L. - Mar 20, 2012 3:46:00 pm PDT #10167 of 30001
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Maybe try 15 and keep that extra half in reserve?
This. *Or* take 10 at first and see if you fall asleep, but if you can't, take another 5 and see if it nudges you over. But 10 mg might really do it despite the stress (I've been surprised at a regular Ambien dose putting me to sleep when I've been stressed off the charts -- but I realize I'm also just anecdata). And knowing you *can* take more if needed might take the edge off ("the edge" being the worry of "FUCK, what if I can't fall asleep...I really need to fall asleep...FUCK I'm still awake DAMN IT...").
Anne W. - Mar 20, 2012 4:15:16 pm PDT #10168 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Thank you all very much. I've had a rough time of late, and this just sent me over the edge.
beth b - Mar 20, 2012 4:22:35 pm PDT #10169 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I'm sorry askye
Laura - Mar 20, 2012 4:23:27 pm PDT #10170 of 30001
This too shall pass.
I'm sorry, Anne. May you achieve renewing rest, alternating between bliss filled dreams and deep sound renewing sleep.
So very sad, askye. What a nightmare.