Riptide - doesn't insurance suck! The covereage seems to vary so much. Mine covers a pill a day, but if you use 90 pills in 90 days your doctor has to reauthorize, which mine will. So it's just a hoop to jump through.

Before my pdoc gave me the Ambien scrip I had tried Tylonel PM. It worked, but made me really sleepy in the morning, so that's why I went with an actual sleep med. When I wake up now, I'm relatively awake even if I didn't get tons of actual sleep.

I guess it's a process of reteaching myself how to sleep. It is nice to have the Ambien back-up.