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<blockquote data-quote="tiredmommy" data-source="post: 30375" data-attributes="member: 1722"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dammit Janet</div><div class="ubbcode-body">TM...you sound like my doctor! </p><p></p><p>"Try going to the gym, walk more, no caffeine after 3pm, all your ills would be cured!" Yeah right doctor. Do people think I havent tried all those things? If I could afford a gym I would go but I cant. I cant walk very much on orders of a ortho doctor but not only that my knees kill me but I do walk as much as I can possibly do so and pay greatly for it. I have tried limiting caffeine and it doesnt make one iota of a difference in my insomnia. Without sleep medications I dont sleep. Simple as that. Doesnt make a difference to my psychiatrist. He gives me 15 restoril a month. I can pick the nights I get to sleep. The others I have to overdose on benedryl and pray that puts me out. </p><p></p><p>In my view, all medical care is more art than science and I have lost most of my faith in it. </div></div></p><p></p><p>Janet, I'm not referring to a person with a bonafide sleep disorder. I'm refering to the person that drinks a pot of coffee at 10pm and does nothing to control stress, diet or fitness. These people may not actually need a medication to sleep but lifestyle changes instead. You are in a different category, you live with chronic pain so sleep is inherently more difficult for you than other people. You <em>are </em> the sort of person who needs a sleep medication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tiredmommy, post: 30375, member: 1722"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dammit Janet</div><div class="ubbcode-body">TM...you sound like my doctor! "Try going to the gym, walk more, no caffeine after 3pm, all your ills would be cured!" Yeah right doctor. Do people think I havent tried all those things? If I could afford a gym I would go but I cant. I cant walk very much on orders of a ortho doctor but not only that my knees kill me but I do walk as much as I can possibly do so and pay greatly for it. I have tried limiting caffeine and it doesnt make one iota of a difference in my insomnia. Without sleep medications I dont sleep. Simple as that. Doesnt make a difference to my psychiatrist. He gives me 15 restoril a month. I can pick the nights I get to sleep. The others I have to overdose on benedryl and pray that puts me out. In my view, all medical care is more art than science and I have lost most of my faith in it. </div></div> Janet, I'm not referring to a person with a bonafide sleep disorder. I'm refering to the person that drinks a pot of coffee at 10pm and does nothing to control stress, diet or fitness. These people may not actually need a medication to sleep but lifestyle changes instead. You are in a different category, you live with chronic pain so sleep is inherently more difficult for you than other people. You [i]are [/i] the sort of person who needs a sleep medication. [/QUOTE]
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