You must advocate for yourself when it comes to docs and to rude secretarys. You are right many sleep studys are to test for sleep apnea and they almost always find some sort of apnea but there are many other things they can discover too if it is done correctly. But my rhuemy said to me one day, "so if you had diabetes you wouldn't want to take insulin everyday because you wouldn't want to be dependent on it." I knew what he was saying I had made the same argument with myself many times, so I overruled my irrational side and I have been taking ambien ever since. I fought taking sleeping pills everynight at first because I didn't want to be dependent on them.
I personnally can't take them and I have very good luck with the ambien but no matter what kind of medicine you need, you need to sleep to be able to cope with this disease. Some docs want to give antidepressants to help aid with the sleep. I use to wake up several times an hour the longest I would sleep at one time is 120min. I can't quote the study that came from but it is a fact. People with fibro do not go into stage 4 sleep and we wake up at least every 90 to 120min. Lisa please do press your docs about sleep aids. I have really had just about all I can take of feeling like doctors are not really hearing me and addressing my needs. I am going there this week, and I do plan to ask about the sleep study, but I am going to ask for ambien CR on a longer term basis. The thing is, the more time that passes, each bout of insomnia seems to get worse. and 2.) I feel like my doctor thinks I am just trying to get sleep meds etc out of her that I don't really need. I have to call often, and the secretary is very rude. I guess the reason I haven't pushed it, or complained to my doctor as much as I should is because, 1.) I dislike calling there. I have recently been reading up more on Fibromyalgia, and I did read something about it causing many patients to not reach a certain level of sleep. I assumed it was more for things such as sleep apnea and the like. I guess I always assumed that it wouldn't be helpful, and I would just be restless overnight in a hospital for no reason. Its ironic that you mentioned that, because about a year ago my doctor had suggested that it may be a good idea to go in for a sleep study. I am so tired of hurting and being exhausted. My rheumatologist is aware that I have this sleeping problem, but he hasn't given me anything for sleep either. I see my GP this week, so I will ask about something new. Just trying to clean my house is overwhelming for me. I do a lot of stretching and some smaller excercises I learned in physical therapy. I am going to look into the Ambien CR further.Īnd Glojer, unfortunately I don't get as much excercise as I should. I am already on a muslce relaxer called Flexoril. I guess I don't have the same reactions as most people. Benadry does not make me even slightly tired. So in addition, taking medications like trazadone only complicate that problem more. I already suffer from chronic candida in my body because of the sjorgren's syndrome. So I don't think that antibiotics or the vanderbilt protocol is for me. I don't have chlamydia, or herpes, or anything viral like that associated with my fibromyalgia.
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