Posted by Larry Hoover on April 14, 2005, at 21:34:18
In reply to Re: sleep study question » Larry Hoover, posted by Sarah T. on April 14, 2005, at 19:12:46
> Hi Larry. Thanks for your reply. Wow! You woke up 27 times during the study??!! I wonder whether that happens regularly or whether the many awakenings might have been due to the discomfort of sleeping in an unfamiliar place with all those electrodes and wires getting in the way.
No, I'm sure it was happening regularly, and was the explanation for my feeling non-restored every morning. It amazed me that this was not some sort of critical finding. The sleep doctor said that I had nothing to treat! He was also an *sshole. He said, three times, three different ways "Sorry, we don't do magic here. Nope. No magic." Right. Like I drove three hours to spend three hours getting hooked up and briefed and interviewed, and got all this paste glued in my hair ("don't worry, it'll wash out"....but meanwhile I have to drive home with globs of goo like horns coming out of my scalp), in the misguided notion that I might find some magic. Harrumppfff.
> Am I correct in understanding that you did take melatonin on the night of the sleep study? Why?
I was taking it regularly, then. I didn't want to change anything I normally did.
> If you don't take it regularly, why did you take it the night of the study?
Sorry if I was confusing. I was taking it regularly then. I stopped when I went on the zopiclone (after the sleep study, he did at least suggest an alternative med).
> How much did you take? Did you take regular or sustained release?
Regular form, dose approx. 1.5 mg.
> You said that you are now trying Zoplicone. Is that also known as "Sonata" or is it "Ambien"?
It's called Imovane. Not available in US, I think. Canada, Britain, Europe have it. Not US.
That new sleep med that was just announced in US (Lunesta, eszopiclone) is one enantiomer of zopiclone. It wasn't worth getting the racemic zopiclone past the FDA, so they did the same thing as they did with Celexa to create Lexapro. Only the s-enantiomer, rather than a mixture of r- and s-.
Lar
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