My First Ambien

Your welcome Shelly!  I just dont want anyone to think that sleeping pills are the answer to solve insomnia...short term for a few weeks maybe but no longer....

 If I knew back then what I know now about sleeping pills would never have taken that first one.  I was pushed into menopause at 42 and then on Armidex for 5 years which made the insomnia worse.  I have never had insomnia in my life! My husband use to joke that I could fall asleep at the drop of a hat as soon as my head it the pillow!

 All the best in your recovery.  I am 6 years out and feel better than I have in years!

Michele

My doctor has basically prescribed me Ambien for the last 4 years. I have cancer; I dare anybody to take away a few hours of forgetting about it all. There are worse things to be addicted to! Best wishes to you all.

Me too, Nora, the brain is just in overdrive. I close my eyes but just keep right on thinking of all the stuff I have to do, or articles I've read about, or pieces of music I'm practicing. It just won't shut off. Ambien just slips me into La-La land so nicely. I've had a few bad dreams, but so far I still have my pubes (darn)..

Urgh, what about those nights like tonight when I'm lying awake ruminating about cancer anyway?

Chemopause left me with so little body hair it would really be more xeriscaping.   

Didn't mind it during chemo either.  Would I ever miss chin bristles?  But those tough little buggers sprouted right out again, along with a beautiful fur on my cheeks.  Now all that exhuberance has slacked off and I'm left with the hair distribution of my grandmother.

I used to take Xanax to fly.  Not because flying scares me, but because it not infrequently makes me sick and Xanax seemed to help with the nausea.  I unknowingly rented a car. 

Ok so I am used to hair that goes below my shoulders, always well kept, it was always my pride and joy. Then I lost it all to chemo. The lack of body hair was kinda nice. Weird but nice, and no facial hair on my upper lip or chin.  What seems a cruel joke to me is having very, very short hair yet the facial hair and pubic hair is exactly how it used to be.  grrrrr

Hi girls, my doc and I agree, a good nights sleep is far more important than fear of addition to ambien.  Micheal Jackson should have stuck to ambien.  When my mind is especially racing, I add the xanax.  Never had much facial hair before, but now I have peach fuzz!  I have had it "threaded" twice, and it seems to be doing better.  My hair (head) is so dang slow .

No, they (asian lady, at salon I go to), somehow use a piece of thread to pull the hair out.  They do this instead of waxing.  It hurts a bit, but is easier on the skin.  I think she trained in Vietnam?

OMG threading hurts like heck!!!   I let some middle eastern woman in a hair salon do that to me a couple of years ago. She insisted it was so much better for the skin than waxing. Never again!!!

I think either way you are ripping hair out by the follicles and it hurts. I can't seem to grow my eyebrows back. They are really thin, but not in the right places. They need shaping but I'm afraid to pull them out in case they don't grow back.

You girls make me laugh a lot!

We need a cartoon of the walrus getting his whiskers threaded, Blue.