i hear so many people who don't sleep well, i take mg adderall in the am and at night, immovane or lorazepam to get to sleep! am i the only one who has to do this to sleep????

No, rest assured (pardon the pun) you're not the only one.

I have taken so many different sleep aids (prescription & OTC) over the years that it would be hard to put together a list of them all.

I have found that as the years have gone on that I need them less and less. However, during the first 7 or 8 years after being diagnosed I think I needed them more often than not. I still keep some on hand, because I periodically still suffer from insomnia. Usually these days it's more associated with stressing out over exams, and finals more so than being a side effect of the meds anymore.

Looking back I think my favorites were Halcion, Restoril, Ambien, Sonata, and Lunesta. However, my Dr really did not like me using the addictive ones for longer than 7 to 10 days at a stretch due to me being such a chronic herb smoker/party-er back in those days (a fact that I never hid from my Dr).

Anyhoot, a couple of years back my Dr let me try some samples he had of the latest sleeping med approved by the FDA called Rozerem. It's a melatonin agonist, and I have found it to be very therapeutic, and actually to be a perfect sleeping med for me.

It's designed to help a person fall asleep by triggering their own internal sleep mechanism if you will, instead of knocking someone out like a traditional sedative/hypnotic typically does. I started to read about it and it turns out that it's the first FDA approved prescription sleeping med that is not a controlled substance. It's great for people like myself who only have a problem with falling asleep, but it's not so great for people who have trouble staying asleep and trend to wake periodically throughout the night.

Anyhoot, sorry to ramble on and on, but I do love talking about things like this. :o

I don't necessarily take a sleep per se. I take Celexa in the evening. One of the side effects is drowiness. It helps during sleep.

My son has to take 30 mg of Remeron to be able to sleep , he takes 20 mg of adderall in the am and at noon, if he takes his adderall after noon, he cannot go to sleep at night even taking his remeron .

Having had insomnia since i was a child, i notice it has only gotten worse over the years. i've been on things like Trazadone, but really Restoril was the only thing my body didn't become accustomed to. When i found out it's a class X drug ( causes SEVERE birth defects ), i switched to 50 mg of benadryl every night. The only problem is that now i've had to up it to 75mg a night, cause 50 doesn't work anymore.

Will be asking my pdoc if she can prescribe something else at next appt.

I used to take stuff to help me sleep:

1) *pams - made me more excited than anything
2) Imovane - same thing
3) Olanzapine - Put me to sleep for the first few days but not after that
4) Risperdal - same deal

Since I started on Concerta (with a Ritalin booster) I sleep better now than ever. Now these are the only two hed-medz I take.

For some reason, I can take 15mg of Ritalin-IR and fall fast asleep within the hour (which is why I only take it between 5 and 8pm)

When telling this to my p/doc he was very surprised by this. I guess I consider myself lucky that I don't have sleeping problems - nor appetite problems (in fact, due to my G.I. condition, I can eat very high-fat/junk food which helps me maintain 155-160 lbs - otherwise I'd be a skeleton again).

I'm experiencing the opposite - sleeping 10+ hours and still tired early on the next day. It could be the depression causing the fatigue - I'm on 27 concerta 40 g Prozac, but that seems to have zero stimulating effect.

I take medication occasionally to help sleep at night. You are definitely not alone. I take Lunesta when I have problems getting to sleep.

During the work week I have trouble going to bed before 11 pm and getting up at 6:30-7 am. So once or twice during the week I take night time cold medicine. This probably isn't good but I don't want to take sleeping pills either. I need at least eight hours of sleep or I'm a complete mess and get nothing done.