Yes, that did sound silly-why do i take it if it doesn't work. Because they work a little bit. It takes me 2-3 hours to fall asleep and i now get 4-5-6 hours of sleep vs staying up all night or just 2 hours of sleep. Ambien used to work better. Now that i looked it up, i'm taking the CR. I used to take the SR but was waking up after 3-4 hours. He gave me this thinking it would allow me to sleep longer. I'm reallly at a loss. Trazadone was a tremendous help for 2 months then it totally wore off. Bigger doses didn't help, they just made me feel like crap.

I ended up trying a 2nd dose of Ambien. I slept 9 hours. Feel like crap though. The does i took is double what you are supposed to take. I don't want to increase my dose, and I'm not sure it's even ok to describe the dose i took, so I'm not sure what to do. this was just an experiment to see how it would work.

It could be that i've built an intolerance. I think i have brain damage to the part of my brain that regulates sleep. I think the damage came from not getting enough sleep for years or chronic depression or both.