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Sleep problem, no end in sight?

Posted by imactheknife@hotmail.com on November 04, 2001 at 18:06:00:

Hi everyone, I am new hear, but I have been reading for awile, and I have to say that this is a great place to be...I have been having sleep problems since July sometime..I was living in Ontario..had only lived there for 5 months, when I started having sleep problems....I was not used to the heat and humidity, and my new Girlfriend that I had moved to be with did'nt know what I was going through....needless to say, I started to panic, cause I had moved 3000 miles to be with her, and hear I was not sleeping afraid of losing my job, and her....I felt so awful...because the lack of sleep.....I ended up taking Ativan for two months....and was a great sleep aid....I was working outside in the heat, and I had lost a bunch of weight, do to the heat (no appetite) the hours etc.....needless to say, I became a wreck after awile, because the ativan only worked once in awile...on the bad nights I would look at the ceiling from Dark till Dawn, go to work....and feel bagged.... I ended up quitting smoking, I was flown back to alberta where I am from...and was off work for about a month and a bit....I gained my weight back, and decided I needed to work....but when I moved back I stopped taking the ativan cold turkey...I thought I was going to die...and I did;nt know why until I found this sight....and how addicative ativan is....I am working again, but I felt so depressed because my girlfriend and my dog etc are all back there, and so now I am taking Remeron for a anti-depressent, and zopliclone? for sleep...all though all I have left is half a tab....I know there is so many meds out there, but I want so bad to have a normal sleep again...more than anything else in the world....I hope we can all get to the root of this, and I agree with the fact is should somehow be considered an illness, or something do to risk factors like losing your job, it totally can mess up your life..which in turn does not help matters!! what a vicious cycle.....I am trying to stay positive, which is extremely hard..especially when you go all night without sleep...and have to face the world the next day....I won't write a novel, but I am hear to read and learn, and try to help all I can..so everyone can finally sleep like one should....goodnight, god bless.....Mark in Alberta...

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