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I had a sleep study Monday night, dr had me take an ambien since I've been fighting insomnia. Went to bed at 10pm up at 7:15am awakend a few times at night to adjust mask & to change my position so they could test how I sleep on my back.
Tuesday morning, I took a shower & meds (including adderal) approx 7:30am. While driving home, I had an accident. I RearEnded a car at the stop sign. I remember turning at the stop light (few blocks from the stop sign), then I heard the crash. I don't remember feeling a quick stop, or my glasses flying off my face, or seatbelt tightening, just a distant crunching sound. I know got out of the truck and walked over to the gal in the white car and handed her my drivers license & insurance card. I was on auto-pilot, like I was watching myself do these things. She wrote down her info for me. And I went back to the truck, it was then that I realized I couldn't see and searched for my glasses, found them on the floor board. Somehow I drove home, called the insurance people and then went to bed.
I basically slept all Tue til Wed morning when the insurance people called my hubby & he didn't know I had had an accident yet. He called freaking out & made me promise to call my dr & demand a CAT scan or an MRI. My hubby is convinced that I had a stroke. So later when I called the dr office they told me to go to the emergency room. A friend took me into the ER.
The ER did a CT scan of head & C spine, Xrays of neck & hips, EKG, & a lot of blood tests. Of course all the test came back normal. Go figure. So they sent me home, with instructions to rest and see my primary doctor next week.
My husband doesn't want me to drive anymore. I guess I've known this would come at some point, just not so soon.
The only thing that is really different now then the last 5yrs that I have been sick, is that this time I actually had an accident. Why is it real to other people now?
Tuesday morning, I took a shower & meds (including adderal) approx 7:30am. While driving home, I had an accident. I RearEnded a car at the stop sign. I remember turning at the stop light (few blocks from the stop sign), then I heard the crash. I don't remember feeling a quick stop, or my glasses flying off my face, or seatbelt tightening, just a distant crunching sound. I know got out of the truck and walked over to the gal in the white car and handed her my drivers license & insurance card. I was on auto-pilot, like I was watching myself do these things. She wrote down her info for me. And I went back to the truck, it was then that I realized I couldn't see and searched for my glasses, found them on the floor board. Somehow I drove home, called the insurance people and then went to bed.
I basically slept all Tue til Wed morning when the insurance people called my hubby & he didn't know I had had an accident yet. He called freaking out & made me promise to call my dr & demand a CAT scan or an MRI. My hubby is convinced that I had a stroke. So later when I called the dr office they told me to go to the emergency room. A friend took me into the ER.
The ER did a CT scan of head & C spine, Xrays of neck & hips, EKG, & a lot of blood tests. Of course all the test came back normal. Go figure. So they sent me home, with instructions to rest and see my primary doctor next week.
My husband doesn't want me to drive anymore. I guess I've known this would come at some point, just not so soon.
The only thing that is really different now then the last 5yrs that I have been sick, is that this time I actually had an accident. Why is it real to other people now?
It is amazing how hard it can be to convince family and friends we have a real problem. Even though my employers and the government agree that I am sick enough to be on permanent disability, I know my father-in-law thinks I am making the whole thing up. Good thing I don't value his opinion.
Good luck coming up with a better treatment plan!
In any case this is a known side effect of Ambien and they should not have given it to you and then let you drive.
I don't mean to scare you but please talk to someone now.
Clearly the sleep clinic does not adhere to these warnings.
I had a horrible reaction to Lyrica. I became paralyzed and the only thing I could do was move my eyes for 3 hrs. Just before my body froze up on me, I was walking into the walls and it was the worst sensation ever. This was after 1 pill.
Because of that experience I'm now deathly afraid to try new meds!
Contact someone like peace shared.
I don't understand why the sleep clinic would give you any medication at all. They are supposed to be observing how you sleep without medication. That's the whole point to having a sleep study done.
I'm not convinced it was just the ambien. I have been taking ambien on & off for over 5 yrs now. Started when I first received my CPAP. It had been 11hrs between taking ambien and the accident. I also took adderall in the morning (which I have been taking for 6weeks) and is a stimulant and it should have kept me awake. And sleeping for four days after, I really don't think I can blame that on ambien.
To me I guess it is just so frustrating, all the parts of my life that this FibroDragon has taken away from me.
I feel like I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't.
PS...
This was my 4th sleep study. They were testing my pressure, which had to be adjusted by 30%.
PSS....
I take prescribtion strength Vit D3 because my levels were so low. I was on 50,000IU's/week for 3mths and that didn't even bring me up to normal levels.
I have two appt on the 14th. First to get the results from my sleep study. And a few hours later I get to see a neurologist for the first time. Hopefully the neurologist will see something in this mess that everyone else has missed.
Guess I still want my life back.
Damn.. I thought I had accepted this.
OK back to the drawing boards.
Thank you all for all your help.
{{{HUGZ}}} SG
Bless ya Girl...Thankfully you or anyone else was Not Seriously Injured, and I Agree, perhaps Now they will Talke Notice with you, However this would leave me Fearful to Ever Drive again, and there would go my Independence.
Luckly for me, my daughter & grandbaby have agreed to come down weekly to see me and take me to the grocery store. (Guess I forgot to mention that my hubby is in China right now for his work.)
And a couple of the gals from FibroGroup have offered to take me to dr apts & such.
I truly am blessed.
Thank your for reminding me.
{{{HUGZ}}} SG
Wishing U good luck with the neurologist & hope he will be helpful in finding out what is going on !! Happy 2 hear U will have help with getting around 2 do the things U need 2 while your hubby is away.
Take care
gentle hugs