I know that Ambien is not really supposed to be taken every single night so I'm trying to be careful with it. I also take my 10 mg pills and cut them in half (sometimes even into quarters). My first few nights with it I seemed to have slept fairly well, but was still a little tired in the morning. Fortunately, not groggy or in any sort of drug haze, just still tired. And tired all day long. I chalked it up to not being completely caught up on weeks and weeks of restless sleep or no sleep at all.
I thought that maybe on nights when I had a minor migraine I could sleep it off with the help of the Ambien instead of resorting to heavier medications. Also, all the OTC's that I take for headaches or migraines just keep me up - and that, I believe, exacerbates the problem.
Well, I'm still getting very little sleep and I'm still exhausted during the day. I trade off the Ambien with melatonin, but I really shouldn't be taking either every night (and I'm not!)
Tuesday night / Wednesday morning was a bad night. I was up about half the night with a migraine. So I decided to get to bed early tonight and to take Ambien. I took the Ambien at 9PM and by 9:45PM I still wasn't very tired, but I didn't have TOO much trouble FINALLY falling asleep shortly after 10PM. However, I was wide awake at 3:30AM. And exhausted with a headache this morning.
I guess I'll try a higher dose next time - maybe the whole pill :(
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