Mrs. D.

Can you please translate this for me (in english). I tried to understand it all, but some of it, well, it's over my head.

I have type 2, my family descends from Italy & Spain (way back), and I've NEVER BEEN A GOOD SLEEPER. never.

Never slept through the night until one doctor gave me Ambien. Then I thought it was a gift.

None of my friends sleep through the night either. They are various ages, (all italian heritage), and many of them are on either pills or ativan and they STILL DON'T SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT.

some are type 2.

I have a good friend who is 77, very robust, but suffers from many anxieties. She is over 300 lbs and is NOT a diabetic.

She takes paxil, and antivan and DOES NOT SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT. She gets up and tosses and turns.

I wonder why some of us (like Alan used to be BEFORE the PN). I wonder why some of us can put our heads on the pillow and zonk out. I have never been able to do this in my entire life.

Alan would often tell me "I think I'll take a ten minute nap".

He would sleep for ten minutes.

Then at night he could go to bed and sleep through the night.

then he got the PN, and now he takes Alprazolam which calms his peripheral nerves. He sleeps like a baby.

He is also weaning himself off (very slowly).

he now says he doesn't want to be on Alprazolam for the rest of his life. He knows to do this very carefully, bit by bit.

So far, he's doing good. He is now taking 1 mg at night (along with some melatonin).

I just wonder why some people don't need to take anything to sleep. Must be marvelous.

I guess they don't have much stress in their lives??

mel

Oh, by the way, did you get my PM asking about Neuragen?