Day 9...My Kingdom for some sleep

I've known that Tramadol insomnia was going to be an issue and, well, here we are. The first week my Doctor had me on some other meds that, combined with the debilitating exhaustion and lack of energy I had, made it somewhat easier to sleep. She gave me Imovane to sleep and it worked for a couple of days but after that....nothing. I even tried, out of pure desperation, taking one Imovane and 3 valiums. Nothing doing.

Yesterday I went back to see my Doctor and she gave me 7 tabs of 25mg Amitriptyline. It's really an anti-depressant but it does also work as a sedative. Well, I took one last night and it worked, it's just that this morning I feel foggy and slow and generally terrible. Reminds me of those nature shows when they hit the Rhinoceros in the *** with a heavy-duty sleep agent and it lumbers around incoherently upon waking up.

To be honest, I REALLY don't want to take this stuff either. I think I'll pop over to EmilyPosts's forum and ask if anyone out there has a better idea, or if Melatonin has worked for anyone.

Onward and Upward. There's no going back now and, besides, even with the sleep issues I feel better than I did when I was on Traumadol.