How does XYREM affect others? I have been takeing XYREM since Nov. 07, and been doing great. One thing I learn is not to eat nothing after 2000 hrs, because XYREM seems to be more effective.

Xyrem has completely changed my life.. for the BETTER. I was afraid to take it at first because I'm a single mom and I am the only adult here to protect the household. I was afraid I wouldn't wake up and hear anything if something happened. I was also afraid I would get up and sleep walk and kill myself on the stairs (because prior to Xyrem I was sleep walking and sleep eating) or burn the house down trying to cook something in my sleep. I was afraid of a lot! But I took it because I was already on other routes and they weren't working for me. It is the best decision of my life. I still wake up to noises.

I have an alarm system and it makes a very faint beep when it is set. One night I told my daughter to set it before she went to bed because I had to get some rest. When she set it, I heard the beeping, jumped out of bed hollering her name (that beep is the same sound the alarm makes right before the siren sounds also) to see if she set it or if somebody had broken into the house. It was just her setting it.

And then when she has friends over (teens), they have to be extra quiet now (where as before I was dead to the world) because I will wake up, and if I do I can't always get back to sleep depending on where I am in my sleep cycle.

Then the sleep walking and sleeping eating stopped completely once i started taking Xyrem. And I can think during the day. I am still pulling out of a few things in other areas so I'm not fully stabilized, but not too long ago I wouldn't even be able to compose this information in my head, let alone type it!

I don't eat or drink anything four hours prior to taking Xyrem at my doctor's instructions. I know the company says 2.5 hours but I have found that the difference between four hours and 2.5 hours has a huge impact in my quality of sleep so I stick w/the four hours. I do drink water though. Just not anything else.

The biggest "downer" for me is that I don't dream. I had beautiful happy dreams before I started taking it. Now I don't recall any dreams. But that's a small consolation to pay in order to have my sanity back!

Great post XyremHappy, I hope others share their stories also so people can see what it's like :)

I sent away for the xyrem info pack. Maybe it for doctors, i don't know but it came to my house in 2 days. I liked seeing the sleep graphs i wish i could read them better. ( maybe my wife will take an intrest )

Anyway I will pass it on to my new doctor for my diabetes.

I love my Xyrem! it is not a magic "pill" but it makes a significant difference in my life. Just a side, the other morning i woke up and told my husband at dinner about all the dreaming I did the night beofre and how vivid it was like before I was on Xyrem. When I went to bed that night I discovered that I had slept through/missed my second dose. I also miss my superpowers of mega-dreaming...it was cool to revisit the experience for a night, but I love my Xyrem...better to be able to enjoy real life more than dream-life!

Xyrem has made it possible for me to get a GED and go to college. I currently have my AA, earned with high honors!!!

I have been on Xyrem for 1 year now. I love it. I do still dream, don't remember the dreams often, but when I do they are really weird dreams, like things that could never happen. I used to stick to a strict no eating 2 hours before first dose, but not so much anymore. I do not eat anything heavy, but if I don't have a snack before bed I wake up starving when I take the 2nd dose. I had to stay off of Xyrem for a few days after my thyroid surgery due to conflicts in medicines, and I can say I was never so happy to be able to start taking it again. One thing that seems strange to me is that since the removal of my thyroid for thyroid cancer, my body reacts differently to Xyrem. I didn't change the dose at all 4.5 @ bedtime and 3.75 3 hrs later, yet I sleep so much deeper and longer now. Before when I would take the 2nd dose I would get up and use the bathroom and then again in about 3 hrs. Now I take the 2nd dose, use the bathroom and don't wake up for at least 5.5 hrs.

I have to admit, I don't think I ever paid much attention to the don't eat 2 hours before dose thing...and I have never noticed that it makes a difference...that is me though...for someone else that may be an important variable to control for optimum results.