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Originally Posted by dmplaura View Post
Sigh Erin, I don't know (re: sleeping pill and why they gave you this stuff). Maybe it's an 'off label' use?

I'd talk with your doctor about weaning off. I was only up to 20mg and having those side effects. I took 1 10mg dose the following night, then nothing. I haven't had withdrawal myself, but as I say, very low amount.
I looked it up again, and yeah, using it for insomnia is an off-label use.

No more for me. Now that I think it's wearing off, I'm not running to the potty every two minutes, and my eyes dont feel so dry, and I dont feel quite as weird as I did last night.

I'm tired as heck tho! I hope we're not at the apple festival too long today.

I also read about another side effect the ami has. Weight gain. THAT explains a LOT!

I thought that the Copaxone I was taking was causing my problems. (the potty stuff, and the gaining weight) Now, I'm wondering if I was wrongly blaming the C. Maybe both the C and the ami were doing it together?

I'd taken a nice vacation (for a month) from the C to see if it was causing my problems with some of the weird side effects that I've been feeling. Things didnt change too much during the break. I started back up with the C last week, and noticed that there was an increase in problems.

I wasnt noticing all the weirdness until I started taking the ami, so maybe that was causing most of it. I guess I'll find out if some of the weirdness quits bugging me in a few days since I'm stopping the ami.

I'm just going to take 1/4 of a pill to wean off instead of a half pill. Most of the time that I've been taking this stuff it's been at half strength anyways. I'd only upped it to a full pill (10mg) because the insomnia was worse.

After reading the list of side effects, things are making a lot more sense. There's a lot of things I've been noticing this summer. I wonder if I'm one of those people who are strangely sensitive to this stuff.
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