Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
I find lorezapam the only medication that has been able to make me sleep... But it's my mums meds.. how can I get my GP/psych to put me on this? Apparently it's illegal for me to take it.. It's not like it's meth or crack.. It ain't gonna kill me.. All other meds have failed or rarely put me to sleep.. Temezapam failed, mogadon worked twice, avanza used to work but doesn't even anymore even tho I take 2 a night... Serapax also failed.. All I need is half a tablet and it puts me too sleep.. My psych tells me not to rely on meds all the time to sleep and just tells me nobody dies from insomnia and gives me a sleep hygiene which I do and it's helped my sleep but not completely.. How am I gonna tell my psych or GP? My mum tells me not to tell them.. I haven't.. But it what helps me sleep.. I even told my psych I smoked weed once and it's like he didn't care.. He just asked me how I felt about it.. So how can taking non perscribed meds be any different? Will my mum get into trouble? I doubt he'll put me on it as the doctor who referred me to him recommended clonazepam but he let psych decide and I asked him about it so he says no.. What do I do?
With sleeping pills of any kind, you're only treating the symptom, right? You don't take pills to get hungry, so why would you take pills to get sleepy?
Much better to get at the true root of the problem, whatever that may be.
About the lorazapam, I have been taking it for fifteen years, and it's really funny because I began by taking my mother's, as well. My step-father takes it too, and when one of us runs out we all wind up sharing. To tell you the truth my psych won't give it to me because he feels I'm on enough medication, but my GP is fine with it, so he gives it to me.