I’ve had insomnia for 35 years. Takes forever to get to sleep. Wake up every 15-20 min. Rarely get more than an hour or two of solid sleep per night.

I’ve tried everything.
Sleep hygiene, exercise, l-dopa, melatonin, valerian, skull cap, every herbal concoction.

I’ve tried delta waves and theta waves, deep breathing, meditation, and therapy

I can’t even remember all the things I’ve tried before I finally gave in and tried meds.

I even went to a naturopath and tried every pre-sleep precursor expensive metabolite supplant in the market.

They all either don’t work or caused bad side effects.

Finally they gave me ambien.

Life. Changed.

4-5 hours of solid sleep per night for two years.

No side effects. No dependence.

My work, mood, attitude, memory, relationships all got better. Life worth living better.

Then when I moved my new doc just took it away. He didn’t even care what my history was. So I went to other docs and same thing. Ambien does this that and the other, it doesn’t give restorative sleep, etc etc.

Only it was great for me and they treated me like a junkie. I spent the last 4 years laying awake at night knowing there’s a pill that will make my life worth living and nobody will let me have it because they read an article. Like any bad things it could theoretically do would be worse than this.

I have a chem degree and I tell you….. I have been sorely tempted to make my own.

They just gave me a prescription for Dayvigo. I’m waiting for it to be filled.

Fingers crossed.