Hello bizi! Glad to hear that you have some wiggle room in the a.m. we did not take anything extra while tapering off the ambien and didn't really seem to have any bad wds's. we actually feel gooder now that we're off of it. Like we can get moving like a 'normaler' person even early, and the foggy spaced out stuff during the daytime seems to be gooder too. the drawback - we still don't sleep so very much!!!