Posted by utopizen on July 24, 2003, at 4:23:41
In reply to Re: Chronic Insomnia, posted by pianolady on July 24, 2003, at 3:09:11
Ask your doctor about Xyrem. He has to register (5 minute process) to a central pharmacy, and you have to listen to a tape recorded message for 5 minutes, and a month later your doctor's prescription is shipped to you.
Just ask your doctor about it, though. Don't go crazy with Google over it, there's enough misinformation on how to obtain it and how "hard" it is to get to put me into a coma.
I'll probably be going on it in a couple of months. It's good to have an overnight sleep study and a Multiple Sleep Latency Study before considering Xyrem. It's been used off-label by neurologists and other specialists for treatment-resistant insomnia. And given how pathetic the current treatments are, that's not hard to have these days. Ambien would be fine if it didn't have me wake up 4 hours after taking it. I often re-dose. Trazodone leaves me too groggy, I've played between 50-100mg a night to no luck.
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