I've been taking these over the counter
sleepin' meds for about 4months now. And
when I try to cut off the meds, I can't
sleep. My body or mind would be awake the
whole night. Usually, I would be able to
fall asleep around 1-3am, now it's 8 or
9am. What can I do, that doesn't require
seein' a doctor?
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beccaliz
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 119 Location: OC, cali
a Long Quote Posted: 01-08-06 18:19pm
From addiction and grace (book) by gerald
g may:
page 82
let's assume that you decide to quit the
pills; your stress if over and you think
you can get back to normal on your own.
Or perhaps you ran outta pills and can't
get a refill. Either way, the sedatives
disappear from your brain. Cell a, now
completely accustomed to large amounts of
the sedative, quite literally goes crazy
when it experiences none at all. It
rebounds by firing up to an extreme
degree, manufacturing and releasing great
quantities of the 'wake-up"
neurotransmitter. The neurotransmitter
molecules come raging in hords across the
synapse, invading cell b's receptors,
which, as we have said, are now much
greater in number and much more sensitive
because it had to addapt to the amout of
sedative and cell b was starved. The
effect of cell b is cataclysmic. Its
messages to other cels are berserk,
unintelligible. All the millions of
other neurons that had so dutifully
adapted to their new normality of sleeping
pills are now screaming that something is
terribly wrong, and you are experienceing
both backlash and the stress that
constitute w/drawl symptoms.
End quote
the best thing to do is to not take them
at all anymore. But if you are having a
very hard time at work or at school and
you job or grade depends on your
performance, quitting the pills may not be
best at the time. Wait until a weekend
when you do not have so much to do so that
you can take naps in the morning and get
reaclimatized.
Good luck
rebecca
12 days sober
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rinsha
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 305 Location: Alabama
Posted: 05-22-06 18:15pm
When I was around 14 I used to buy pm
pills to help me sleep. Then I got to
were I would take like 5 at a time. As
soon as I got home from school. But I
started noticing my back would start
hurting. Then I read somewhere about
tylenol not being good for your liver or
kidneys. And then I decided it was time
to stop buying them. I just got to the
point where all I wanted to do after
school was come home and crash.
Fortunatly I over came this problem and I
hope you do too
