3 Weeks with No Sleep

[Redbones711]

Last Night was a DUD. I actually choked somewhat when I took my Ambien. I was laying down. After an hour I was still awake. Then I was coughing and I had an episode of really bad acid reflux. I have only had it happen like that 3 times in my entire life. It feels like your throat is on fire. I am a mess. I have my 1 month follow up next week and I am reading some things on the boards and have some ideas. One is about the C-flex. I see a thread on that and am going to poke around there. I think I am concentrating on that breathing too much.

[GrumpyGurl]

I am glad you have an apointment next week. Make sure to write down things that you want to bring up to the Dr. Keep reading here and don't give up.

It is worth it, your health depends on it.

[BeanMeScot]

Everybody seems shocked when I tell them it takes 45 min to an hour for Ambien to work - but it does work!
After I go to sleep, I rarely wake up, and I sleep until the alarm goes off the next morning. I just need the help to get to sleep, not staying asleep. Once I'm relaxed, I don't even feel the mask or the air, or hear the machine. I've tried twice now to sleep w/o Ambien - not good. Awake till 4 am. I can't afford any sleepless nights with the amount of sleep debt I owe.

Ambien didn't do anything for me. Period. I never took it for my CPAP, I was trying to see if I could sleep on a plane so I took it a couple of times to see what it did. The answer is nothing. I had a MUCH harder time falling asleep than I normally do and still woke up several times during the night. I slept much worse with it than without it. To top it all off, the effect would carry into the next day where I would have a hard time falling asleep the 2nd night as well.