Until I weaned off the ambien I was taking 25 mg ambien, 10mg melatonin, two Benadryl every night. I still take 10 mg melatonin as anything above that is considered too much. The two Benadryl is mostly so my nose doesn’t stuff up despite having a fan and A/C I am very stable so I consider this the best time to try and get off the ambien. I hate that my body is hooked on it. I have always been able to quit anything when I decided to, not being able to quit this was a huge shock. I expect that it’s going to take a month of horrible sleep before I am able to get used to not taking it. Shockingly I was on the high dose of ambien when I was also on pain meds including fentanyl. They put me on the high dosage when I was ip because I didn’t sleep. They had me on a ton of meds to try and get me to sleep. Sleep has been a big issue my whole life but the way they act in ip is as if I was deliberately staying awake night after night to spite them. Even when I was in the spine rehab place they were giving me 20 mg ambien because I wasn’t sleeping and they were like, you gotta sleep! Bones need sleep to heal!