INFO ON NEW SLEEP MED

[Forseegood]

just an article on this new sleep med that they are advertizing, sounds promising...if anyone has used it, can you report in? thanks!!!

Ramelteon

http://tinyurl.com/mxquh

[sunspot]

I've seen the ads and it looks good. I found a nice link on the site you pointed to. Looks like Ambien will be a generic.

http://www.crbestbuydrugs.org/drugreport_DR_sleepingpills.html

[NYgirl]

Use that? And loose all the funky Ambien psychotic episodes in the middle of the night? Lose the complete and total nightly amnesia?

Oh your kidding me!

:)

[azgrl]

Thanks for the link forsee.

I too am interested in anyone who has taken this.  Post tx insomnia sucks.  I never had this kind of trouble on tx....I think I was also so dang tired I didn't have a chance not to sleep.  hahaha..

thanks
deb in az

[see me]

Thanks for the information forsee.  I'm interested in anything that will help me sleep.  Last week my MD gave me Ativan 1.0 mg. Usually,  I'll take a half and that has really helped.  I still wake up with night sweats and arthritis pain but able to go right back to sleep.  This is the first week I've been able to sleep in 3 months.  I do not know if ativan is a good drug for sleep but it and vicoprofen has really changed the quality of my life.  Until last week I was only taking advil for pain (a lot of it).  I can smile a little easier now.

[Forseegood]

Hi, also take ativan for sleep, but since I'm not treating now my situation is different in that I don't want to become dependent on anything every night, so I only use it when I really need it...I guess when your treating you have to do whatever you need to get you through it...

I find a tranquilizer "relaxes" me into sleep, which is much preferable then a sleep med, for me....sleep meds just knock  me out and then I don't stay asleep, but that's just me...I'm also a lightwieght and only take 1mg or less of Ativan...

Ambien makes me feel really weird, and not nice weird...it didn't used to do that...that's what's strange about a lot of meds to me...is that at first they'll work well for me, then after awhile the change up on me...course everyone is different...

I am curious about this new med though..