hi all. im going to give a little background first so you guys understand my relationship with drugs before my issue. basically i smoke weed everyday, more specifically, i dab wax everyday. i have a pretty decent tolerance to benzos, esp xanax. i usually took a bar when i went out last year in college. anyways my point is that 2 mg of xanax is prob the only amount that can knock me out at this point.
ok so my problem is ive been having insomnia for quite some time now, i would say maybe at least a year. i dont usually have trouble falling asleep, although there are some nights that i cant. but my main issue is i wake up in the middle of the night, every night. lets say i fall asleep at 1 am. i would then sleep and wake up around 4 am, then every hour after that till i give up from losing my mind. these past few weeks my sleep cycle has been waking me up around 7 am no matter what time i went to bed and its driving me crazy!!
my doctor has tried prescribing me antidepressants first like trazadone, and mirtazapine, nothing worked. then he went on to the z drugs. prescribed me ambien 5mg, nothing, 10 mg, nothing.
now we come to the class of benzos. as i went in for a full physical the other day, i couldnt help but to complain about my insomnia once again. i explained to him that i did my research and that i knew at first he said he wouldnt prescribe benzos to me i really think its my only option at this point, i then went on to say about me knowing that there are shorter half lives than others. so i asked him if he could prescribe me a benzo that has a short half life so i wont be groggy when i wanna get up.
he prescribed me .5 mg of xanax. now to me, thats nothing. like i said before i need to take like 2 mg of that to be put to bed and comtinue to sleep. so my question here is, should i talk to him again and explain that only high doses of xanax works and ask for a 2 mg prescription? or are there better hypnotics out there in the class of benzos bc anything less stronger than that wont work for me. something around the half life of about 8 hours so i could get that many hours of sleep?
ok so my problem is ive been having insomnia for quite some time now, i would say maybe at least a year. i dont usually have trouble falling asleep, although there are some nights that i cant. but my main issue is i wake up in the middle of the night, every night. lets say i fall asleep at 1 am. i would then sleep and wake up around 4 am, then every hour after that till i give up from losing my mind. these past few weeks my sleep cycle has been waking me up around 7 am no matter what time i went to bed and its driving me crazy!!
my doctor has tried prescribing me antidepressants first like trazadone, and mirtazapine, nothing worked. then he went on to the z drugs. prescribed me ambien 5mg, nothing, 10 mg, nothing.
now we come to the class of benzos. as i went in for a full physical the other day, i couldnt help but to complain about my insomnia once again. i explained to him that i did my research and that i knew at first he said he wouldnt prescribe benzos to me i really think its my only option at this point, i then went on to say about me knowing that there are shorter half lives than others. so i asked him if he could prescribe me a benzo that has a short half life so i wont be groggy when i wanna get up.
he prescribed me .5 mg of xanax. now to me, thats nothing. like i said before i need to take like 2 mg of that to be put to bed and comtinue to sleep. so my question here is, should i talk to him again and explain that only high doses of xanax works and ask for a 2 mg prescription? or are there better hypnotics out there in the class of benzos bc anything less stronger than that wont work for me. something around the half life of about 8 hours so i could get that many hours of sleep?
