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For whatever reason I have not slept
for the past 36 hours--and I am a guy who never had a problem going to or
staying asleep or sleeping the night through--I was disturbed enough to want
to go to the drugstore and get an OTC sleeping aid--I did want to talk to my
doctor but try to get a hold of a doctor on a Saturday!
In any case I grabbed a bus at 8 AM (Yes, you read that right--8
AM!!) and went to my local CVS--I was going to buy melatorium which a few people
had recommended--turns out I couldn't find it until the pharmacist asked what I
was looking for--how did I know it was with the vitamins???
In any case the pharmacist said I
should talk to my doctor before I take ANY OTC drugs considering what I had just
been through and all the new drugs I was taking. She did say that since my dose
of xanax was so small---0.25 mgs--that she couldn't see any harm in my
doubling the dose at night to help get some sleep--she, also, suggested, that I
go home and take a half a pill and see if that doesn't help me to get to sleep
after being awake for so
long.
I've written before about my 'fear' of
becoming addicted to drugs and I was sort of leery of increasing the xanax dosage let alone depending upon it to
go to sleep---in any case I did take a half a pill and got about 2 hours
sleep--I will take two pills tonight and hopefully that will work--I certainly plan to call my
doctor Monday and see what he has to say about all this and/or if he has any
other recommendations.
By the way I am not a fan of google--I googled xanax and got
31,500,000 responses--am I suppose to read all these just to find out what basic
information I want/need about addiction???
