xanax in small doses is helpful for me. Klonopin makes me anxious, jittery and cant sleep. its a pill to sleep! Ativan in small doses does help, but I cant go higher than 1mg at night or I am wide awake.

I find the same thing with conscious sedation. Like for the MRI. They give you versed, demerol and ativan, and ....yep! Im wide awake! They look at me like I am crazy. I tell them I cant help it, I dont react properly to their meds. They overmedicated me once to the point of restricting my breathing, and kept yelling at me to "breathe!" during the MRI. This last time they gave up, and just knocked me out. Said with my tummy back wash issues, no one should medicate me like that and put me out of reach in a machine.

Why is it that some folks take tylenol and get sleepy, and others can take propophol and be wide awake? look at michael jackson and heath ledger. They simply took massive amounts of meds to sleep and still claimed to be unable.