Yeah, I know that 2 mgs of xanax to go to sleep is a lot. I discussed this with Dr. Fred. He said "well, you are under a lot of stress so I completely understand why you use Xanax to sleep, it relaxes your body".

If I didn't take anything, believe me I would never get a good night's sleep. I would be lying there till 4 a.m. I've done this and it always happens. Only once in a great while, if I am absolutely exhausted, do I go to sleep without anything. I will look into the magnesium thing!!!

I've been this way since I was a baby. My mother told me the reason she never had another child was because I never slept.

When I was about a year old, my mother brought me to the doctor and he told my mother to give me a teaspoon of wine before bedtime. (this is a true story). My mother did as instructed and she said I slept all night long. It was the best night's sleep my parents had also.

Well, the next night they gave me a tablespoon of wine, and guess what??? She said I danced in my crib all night long. There must be something in my nervous system that doesn't shut down when I go to sleep. Researchers say they really don't know why we need to sleep, we just do!!! I read that the other day.
They are still trying to find the reason that a human being needs sleep.

Me???? I have too much on my mind. Before there was such a thing as ambien, lunesta, whatever I would sleep for 2 hours, and get up, go back for 2 hours and get up. I did this ever since my son was born. He slept but I was obviously a nervous mother. And the problems we had with him growing up, just added to my stress.

So some years ago, Dr. Goldbetter prescribed Ambien for me. Do you have ANY IDEA WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE ABLE TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT, when you have never done that? I remember telling my doctor, "what a gift you gave me'. Then the insurance wouldn't cover it any more, and he gave me lunesta. That worked for one week. It did absolutely nothing after that.

I could cut down to 1 mg of xanax, take it at 8 p.m. and maybe by 11 p.m. I'll get drowsy. I only take it at other times if I have a dental appointment. I could not go otherwise, I'm a dental phobic. I'm very careful with meds. I used to be on 8 oral diabetic meds a day and now I just take my shot of lantus (I'm down to 30 by the way) and my high blood pressure pill.

I would love to be like my husband (before he had the PN), he would say "I'm going to sleep now, put his head on the pillow and in 30 seconds flat, he'd be out like a light. I have never been able to do that in my life.

I have a sister-in-law and many friends who are exactly like me. My sister-in-law takes trazadone (for many years now) besides other stuff because she can't go over a bridge, ride in a car (she can ride in buses) she gets too stressed out if she flies so she takes an ativan. Alan is nothing like that, neither am I. But man of my friends who are my age, well, they don't sleep. And they won't take anything. They think it's a crime to take a pill. Me??? I did the guilty thing a long time ago. Like I said, throw anything at me during the day, I'll deal with it. But when you are lying in bed and you have insomnia, well it sucks.

I called up drugstore.com and they told me how to do it. So thankfully I do have another source. I will try and go down on the xanax. What about this new Rozerem thing? They say, it works, it's not addictive and you can stop anytime? I'd love to get samples from Dr. Fred but he said they don't give out any samples.

Anybody try this Rozerem????

Mel