I see what you mean. So I will go from 2 to one a half tonight.

Some years ago, I was on Xanax for one year. I took a .05 every night.
I did it for a year Then for some crazy reason, I decided "no more xanax". Don't ask me why, I don't remember, but will say I remember not having any ill effects. I just stopped. I didn't take it for one whole year. Not that I slept great. I went right back to the falling asleep at 1 a.m. sleep for two hours, getting up, etc. " But I was stubborn and didn't want to depend on any meds.

I will look into the magnesium thing. I'll do a search on your postings (so you don't have to do the explanation again) and I'll find out what kind of magnesium you use. I do know my girlfriend takes magnesium citrate for her restless leg syndrome and she swears by it. It makes her go to the bathroom also. She always said to me "melody if you are going to take magnesium, it has to be magnesium citrate". She would drive me nuts, lol with the magnesium citrate thing.

Oh, Alan is having lots of pain now. He just tried to lie down to take a nap and I had to massage him. It didn't help. He said "how on earth can my PN get worse, it's never been this bad". Then he had to stand up to relieve th pain. I simply said "Maybe this is what they mean by an exacerbation????" Maybe the nerves are healing and they have to hurt before they get better???" I've read this on the boards.

Boy, this PN sucks big time for many many people!!!!

mel

p.s. YOu use one half of a .25?? jeez, that wouldn't affect my little pinky. Does a person size have anything to do with the amount of xanax. I'm not a small person.

and thanks for the info on the xanax. I do listen, believe me. It's much easier to pop a pill than it is to lie awake all night. But it's not good to be on them because I know you have to go higher. My sister in law (on the trazadone, well they have to keep making it stronger every year). I never knew. I never even heard of trazadone until she mentioned it.

I once asked my former doctor "why not put me on trazadone so I'll be in better moods all day long and I'll sleep at night, after all, my sister-in-law is on it (so's my son by the way)??. My doctor simply said "no, you'll get too drowsy during the day), so that was the end of that discussion.