Believe the memory problems. Over time i noticed my memory was not as sharp. I would have to think to find a word. Went off them and this resolved within 2 weeks.

Trazadone gives you a hang over. 2 coffees at least every morning. Pain keeps me up...

You have to be fucking kidding me. I have been through hell with benzos my doctor said that there would be absolutely no withdrawals. I’ve been on 3mg of lunesta for months I’m going to loose my mind if I go through withdrawals

The world needs more medical professionals like you only cautiously proscribing medicine! Well done!

Trazadone didnt work

I take eszopiclone 3mg which works great no hallucinations like ambien feels exactly like valium

I have a central nervous system disorder, ME/CFS from burn pit exposure in Iraq. Ive been an insomniac long before I was in the military. I have been on ambien and lunesta (seperately mind you, I take lunesta these days) for years now. One of the primary features is a sedation effect on the central nervous system. Because most of my pain is in my CNS a side effect of the lunesta is that for about an hour each night my CNS pain is relieved before I go to sleep. Clearly its not feasable to take it during the daytime but I wanted to comment on how it does have a pain releiving effect when the pain is in the CNS.

I was just prescribed eszopiclone (Lunesta). I have taken Ambien (zolpidem) before and, while it worked extremely well when used occasionally for bouts of severe insomnia, I found that it made me extremely groggy like nothing else ever had. (I have experience with many different benzodiazepines and antipsychotic medications and, despite their capacity to work as sedative-hypnotic tranquilizers, nothing has ever made me feel as tired as Ambien has.) I will have to take this video and the information you shared in it into account for the future. Thank you for sharing this!

I wish that you were my doctor. I saw a neurologist on Tuesday, 7/30, and he won't prescribe any medicine, sleep medicine.

Thank you for this. I'm an international flight attendant, I stomach up to 18 timezones a week. Have become entirely dependent on Ambien (Zombien) but the effectiveness has worn off, I've become highly intolerant to it. It's just awkward.

Excellent info. Thank you!

Information easily digested _ thanks!

I've been taking Ambien for 20 years NF zero problems with it, 5mg to 10mg a night, have taken 15mg. I still have to concentrate to go to sleep, no matter the dose. If a patient doesn't have a problem with the drug & it works for them, why does the next Doctor I get (they keep moving away), say I shouldn't take it anymore & they won't prescribe it? Ridiculous! When you find something that works for a person, that person is responsible, articulate & 62 years old, why should you argue with them & take something away that is working for them. Now I'm on high blood pressure medicine from arguing with my doc & never getting enough sleep. Ambien takes the edge off my intense thought process, to help me be able to go to sleep. Guided meditation, flotation tanks, 30 other drugs they've asked me to try... now Lunesta & Belsomra "together" ? Nope, doesn't work either. Ridiculous. You take it every night for a year and tell me what YOUR problem is with Ambien, because I don't have one. Not after 20 years. It still works with no side effect & I can sleep for 4 hours, get up, go to work & work a 12-hour day if I have to. It just relaxes my mind so that I can get to sleep. I still get up and go to the bathroom throughout the night, I still hear if my dog or my cat whimpers & it doesn't increase by dream-state, which I'm an avid dreamer from the time I go to sleep untill the time I wake up. Other drugs increased by dream-state which makes me even more tired the next day. Please do not knock a drug that actually works for some people. Stop putting negative information out about this drug when it does not work negatively for all people. Thank you. Please excuse any typos I'm using Google voice.

I am 40 and have suffered from insomnia since I was 7-8. My brothers was paralyzed and sleep never really came again.

Why do you try to get people off of ambien if it's working for them?

There is a lot of "information" out there about how Zolpdiem (ambien) works on our GABA receptors the same way as a benzo would, therefore giving you similar withdrawals as a benzo. Im working on getting off of zolpdiem, and the first thing that pops up are detox centers advertisements saying this. Can you explain why we wouldn't get the same withdrawals?

When you said you’d like to try and get your patients off Ambien because there are better medications out there which sleep side medications were you referring to?

If doctor has cut ambien dose in half after 15 years, what can someone do? It's horrible. The regular prescription was working perfectly.

I have bad tinnitus. Trazodone calms my fear and anxiety knowing it never stops! I can’t get to sleep on it, so I take half a Zolpidem to get into sleep, and 50mg Trazodone. Sadly i have thought of ending my existence with this tinnitus? I fear sunset, watching the clock as bedtime approaches. I cut a 10mg to take 5mg with Trazodone, but my Dr said he would only prescribe me Zolpidem once?

Trazondone is trash

zipiclone does help with anxiety

Lunesta made me have a TERRIBLE taste in my mouth and throat 24/7. Nothing helped. I could throw up just thinking about it. 🤮

i’ve been taking zolpidem for 3~4 months. Am I addicted?

Trazadone did nothing for me.

Trazadone has withdrawals too

So how do we get off z drugs??

I’m on plus minus 90 Ambien per day. Starting to taper off slowly atm

I take gabapentin along with eszopiclone for many years any hope for me ?

Thanks for providing these information! How save is Trazodone regarding the possibility of getting sexual functions?

I had sleep ealking and hallucinations with ambien. What's the odds lunesta will do that to me?

I used to get 2mg Xanax. I don’t get them anymore which sucks it worked well for me. I am on Ambien now. Snort them they burn like battery acid 😣

hey, would love to ask you some personal questions related with zopiclone, do you have an email? thanks

I have insomnia bambi helps. Me

Known as "hypnotics"

my girlfriend has used it for like 12 years ...

i’m gonna take 2 pills(6mg) i hope i get high

If a sleeping pill is working for someone and they want to keep using it…let them. Don’t change what isn’t broke.

Do you do online coaching?

It’s made my depression so much worse and I just want to be done

Is Mirtazapine also better choice than z drugs

This is dangerous medicine