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Thrown away 200 pills !!! Iam happy

Posted by dannyLondon on October 11, 2006 at 03:30:18:

Hi all, have not posted for a while soo thought I would tell you my wonderful news.
About 3 hrs ago after a dreadfull nights sleep (maybe 2hrs) after breaking a pill in half at 3am etc to induce sleep etc...I went and drove down to the dump and threw every single pill away, along with my non med nytol tablets etc etc.
Why i have come to this dramatic conclusion:

I have always been a pretty poor sleeper for much of my adult life, but I always got over it after a week or so and then just got on with life, never used to worry me that much but now and then you would always read about some Doc telling us all that sleep is so important and we will get ill etc if we dont get enough sleep etcetc zzzzzz.

I had many times when I went and still do go through 4/7 days of very very little sleep and even though I felt groggy IT NEVER made me feel ill, I really believe that I can function and if anything I SEEM to get more alert during the day ( I have a fairly Busy type job)when I am having a severe Insomnia period. But never the less I AM not sick, just a little groggy.
I have also stoppped worrying totally about how long and when other people sleep IAM DIFFERANT my body does NOT need 8/9 hrs sleep and never ever will.....8/9 hrs sleep uggh what a waste of life!
Any way this recent bout of insomnia has been bad and started off via Jet lag when I flew back from vegas last december....could not sleep properly for about 5 days, went to Docter, he gave me Zopliclone/imovane.
They worked, but they made it seem to easy for me.....In the end I was ordering them of the internet etc and going through 10/15 days taking them and 5/6 days off them which would always be a nightmare......The thing is they felt like they where going to control me and I dont want none of that or the COST either!
I can honestly put may hand of my heart and say that my insomnia has been made a 100 times worse becuase I went down the route of taking meds. I would have been over this 10 months ago if I just suffered the insomnia when i came back from vegas and did not run to the docter Like a blubbering baby.
Yes I know tonight and the next week or so are going to suck, hey but Iam healthy have every limb and can see and smell and live in the western world Iam very happy for this !
Even so, can anyone give me any tips for the tossing and turning I will probaly have to go through for the next week or so and the withdrawal totally from meds....BECAUSE I SWEAR NO Matter how bad things ever get in the future I will never ever take anything to make me sleep, My body will tell me when it wants to, anxiety worrying yes I probably will.....But I will be drugfree, surely that has to be better.
Please exuse the gramner and typos(had a bad night last night lol).
Hope you all beat this mindgame..I am going to tray as from NOW .

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