Posted by Chairman_MAO on February 16, 2004, at 17:21:30
In reply to Re: Anyone have Excessive Daytime Sleepiness?, posted by utopizen on February 16, 2004, at 5:28:59
I keep hearing your plight, and I feel for you. I wish I had answers for you, but I do not. The only answer I can give you is that doctors are arbitrary and unsympathetic. Did it ever occur to you that most psychiatric consultations take place solely because of the national drug policy? I mean, what else besides "I want a sleeping pill" does saying "I cannot sleep" mean? If you could buy Ambien over the counter, would you need all of this sleep clinic nonsense? Sure, you're getting lots of nifty graphs, machines, and information from all of these sleep studies, but are they helping you sleep better? :(
Consider yourself lucky that someone is prescribing you Desoxyn. It has the greatest CNS effect in proportion to peripheral effect, and is therefore the most efficient and cardio-friendly stimulant. After all, did the morons that bash methamphetamine ever consider that it is the most abusable because it is the SAFEST? If it weren't the LD50 relative to the ED50 wouldn't be so damn high as to allow for all of that crazy psychotic behavior; the abusers would just drop dead! It really should be first-line for ADD/ADHD. But since methamphetamine has a bad rap due to the war on commmon sense, err, I mean the war on drugs, no doctor I had would ever prescribe it.The only suggestion I can offer you is to order zolpidem/zopiclone from overseas. I do not advocate breaking any US laws ... I'm assuming you do not live in the US, right? Good. It can be done discreetly and on the cheap. This cannot be discussed here. If you disclose your email address to me, perhaps I could give you an, umm, consultation on this subject. Or, if you prefer, I can setup a free email account somewhere and we can correspond that way. It really hurts me to see someone deprived of sleep--without which taking a stimulant to stay awake is POINTLESS--over a Schedule IV classification. How are these doctors supposed to know what dosage of Desoxyn you need or even what your psychiatric symptoms are at all when you are so sleep deprived?
"Oh no, the drug actually WORKS, schedule it!" must be what the sociopaths in charge at the DEA are thinking.
Keep on fighting the good fight; you deserve to sleep!
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