It's just so hard to know the best thing to do sometimes...I know that lots of pharmaceuticals are bad, but then again, some of them seem to be helpful, and some even life-saving. So I don't want to be a dupe of Big Pharma, but neither do I want to throw the baby out with the bath water.

I do value everyone's experience here and I will take all of your viewpoints into consideration.

The problem I have with not taking Ambien at least for now is that it does more than help me just sleep: it seems to calm down my P/N so that I can even tolerate the bedsheets on my feet, even when I'm awake. I wish I could just have that part of it. I think I wouldn't even need a sleeping med if I could only make the feet stop hurting.