Ah shit, it doesn't work. After starting this thread I took 3 times the recommended dose, and still woke up 2 hours later. Got a total of 6 hours sleep which I'll settle for. I have an appointment with my university doctor for thursday so I'll try and get some temazepam. I'll tell them I need something with a longer half life. Strangely enough, zolpidem has an even lower half life but it kept me asleep for 12 hours. Problem was I'd feel like crap the whole next day. With zopiclone, I feel fine the next day. With the doses he gave me, I will be out in under 2 weeks though. I need a way to make them more effective. Won't matter in the long run because he won't prescribe it to me permanently. I don't know what he meant by that as in, did he mean he'll try me with something else next time, or just say "you're on your own, good luck". Knowing doctors, it'll probably be the latter. What an absurd world we live in. People in white coats who in many areas (especially the relevant ones) know less than you do, control your ability to obtain medicine. I'm getting pretty fuckin sick of this shit. I'm a chem major and having been studying psychopharmacology for years now. When I talk to a GP, the gaps and faults in their understanding/knowledge is blatantly obvious to me and I don't know whether to be amused or angry at the fact that I'm the only one in the room who knows how to treat the ailment. I suppose you can get to know them a bit better then they'll start acting on your suggestions so they won't be completely and utterly useless (the only time I've ever really needed medical treatment, it was paramedics, surgeons and nurses who helped me). As a kid I used to think the doctor helped me with his asthma. Now I know that he simply writes a prescription for something I should have been able to walk into a grocery shop and buy OTC.