Nelly
#155352 - 03/01/05 12:03 PM
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Nelly how long have you been on Nor? Give it 3 weeks to see if the sde effets dissapate. If not...then I'm with you. Take it every so often...
I bite my tongue too! I couldn't fall asleep without biting my tongue as a kid. It's gotten better over time.
Can you ge t a bite or whatever it's called form the dentist?
I am SO SORRY you have to go through all of this....I wish I knew how to help. I will think of you....and I will try to remember to ask my pain specialist if she has any ideas for you *hugs*
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Re: Nelly....
#155361 - 03/01/05 12:09 PM
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michele
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Yep, the dr told me the same thing about Ambien! I take it early, like 10ish. I'm usually alseep in 30 minutes! The dr said don't wait until 2 or 3 am to take it because than it will make you a zoombie the next day! But as long as you "sleep it off" for 7 hours or so, it has no "hang over" effect for me!
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Taking it one day at a time.....
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I have the same reaction to klonapin, xanax and valium-- they feel great when I'm on them. But if I go off of them for even a day, I end up crying and having mood swings for no good reason!!
I never want to touch any one of those ever again simply because of the downs. Even ONE PILL will make me depressed and snappy for a week after.
~nelly~
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Ruchie!
#155373 - 03/01/05 12:28 PM
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Nelly
Reged: 08/06/04
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Loc: Within stray mortar fire of DC
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Rache, you're such a good friend. Thanks for thinking of me!! I only have a limited supply of pills, so I'm just doing some preliminary experimentation so I know how I'll react the next time I really need to use them and get some sleep. They really do help the RLS, and the biting too.
It's weird, the day I take the pill and I start to bite, my jaw will actually STOP, mid-motion, and I can close it gently on my own. After the 1st day and I don't take them for a couple days, I don't even start the bite anymore. The biting just completely ceases until the pill wears off in 3-4 days. Very cool.
So I know it's working! Just the zombieness is a little, uh, distracting! But I know I'd be able to push myself and drive a car, attend a meeting, etc. if I had to. It's just I don't have any place to be at the mo, so I'm content staring and watching the hours tick by. Biz-are! 
I spit out bite plates. It's for me the equivillant of shoving it up my a** and trying to sleep. Yeah, too uncomfortable.
How've you been Ruchie?? Are you happy with your pain specialist?
~nelly~
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Thanks Angela!
#155375 - 03/01/05 12:31 PM
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Nelly
Reged: 08/06/04
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Oh please I always want yuo to butt in, Angela!! I've heard the same thing, that one should not take Ambien if 7-8 hours can't be devoted to solid sleep! I can't imagine trying to go through grad school fighting to stay awake through the effects of a sleeping aid!!! Grad school's hard enough without the medical sabotage!!!
~nelly~
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Nelly
#155377 - 03/01/05 12:32 PM
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Augie
Reged: 10/27/04
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Thanks for the response, but I'm still confused. If the klonopin was working for you so well while you were taking it, why did you stop it?
Don't know any teens or aging hippies, unfortunately. I guess I'll probably have to remain "pot free" until I figure something out. I don't even know if I would have the guts to take it.  Can't lose even more brain cells!
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Hey Ruchie
#155380 - 03/01/05 12:34 PM
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Augie
Reged: 10/27/04
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Did you see my post to you on the Eating Board?
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~ Beth
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or habit forming like sleeping pills are known for? I think of Richard Carpenter and how he was in Rehab for sleeping pills.
Do you need to keep taking these and your body become dependent on them?
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~ Beth
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I took Klonopin for several years, I think. It put me in a chilled, quiet place and there it kept me very well.
All kidding aside, this is nothing to joke about. I hate this drug, I lost huge blocks of time while on it. I went places and did things and bought stuff (remember none of it). Of course, the dosage was way too strong, I was seeing a (DR. ???) who had just finished school, she did not know how to monitor a patient thats for sure. I was climbing out of an ugly breakdown, this drug was given to me for sleep. When I finally saw another DR., and was taken off of it, the detox was horrible. I hate this drug. I do not recomend it for anyone, ever. I do not understand why Dr.'s are still using it so readily on thier patients. (must be kickbacks from the drug company). My poor h, was very good to me, he did his best to watch over me and protect me. To this day, I will do anyhthing for him to make sure his life runs as smoothly as possible, he is a wonderful h and a great man.
Now, I take Ativan for sleep. T
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Thanks gigi! You totally reminded me. LOST PERIODS OF TIME. I have blackouts that lasted weeks! I have seen movies in the theaters that I have absolutely no recollection ever seeing. I went to a concert that I swear to you I wasn't at. And I've had conversations and met people that I have no recollection of, whatsoever.
Blackouts were the most telling side effects of klonapin, and I really only realized how many they were AFTER I'd kicked the drug. So funny I'd forgotten that little tidbit of information! 
~nelly~
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