Dr wants me to go on a Tranquilizer

[kris123]

I am bipolar and haven't sleep for a least two days straight, maybe two hours.  I am going through a manic state and my dr wants to give me a tranquilizer to help me sleep - he said the use was short term.  How addicted is this drug.  I have been addicted to coke in the past and am a little worry.  I am nervous how it will make me feel and afraid it will become addicting.  How should I handle this.  I have no choice at this point but to take it.

[kris123]

I do have an addictive personality.  I gave the dr a call this morning and left him a message to find out what he is calling in.  When I talked to him yesterday he did say that he wasn't to conerned with putting me on it, but I don't know.  When I find out I will come back on here and see what you guys think.  I did sleep some last night, but not to much.  I got a two year old that wakes in the night, so I don't want to be to knocked out not to tend to him.  I don't wand to roll over on him either or not hear him cry.  

[snowflake620]

Please stay away from xanax it will kill you even if you take it as prescribed! I should know i was on it for 6 months one 0.5 mg taken at night for sleep I took them for abbout 6 months and one night I had a really bad nightmare but I was awake actually I was halucinating and it was from the xanax so I stopped taking them not knowing I was addicted,they were prescribed and I never abused them,never even took them as prescribed,i stopped taking them in december and spent 2 months fighting for my life the withdrawals are the worst you can ever imagine including seizures and death so please stay away from them,I have used Alteril as mentioned above and it works really well with no side effects and no morning grogginess,please try otc meds before taking any benzo
snowflake

[road2recovery]

When i read your post, i knew what you meant about her doctor.....So sorry about your experience with ambiem...I have tried it a few times, and thank god never had that problem...But i have a friend, that was on them, and one morning i was checking my email...She had sent me pictures of her new baby who was about 5 months old...she must of sent me 25 or more..When i checked the time, she sent them at 3 in the morning..SO i called her at work and told her how cute the pics were, and then asked if she had a bad night and couldn't sleep...She said "What?, I didn't send you any pictures of the baby, and i was sleeping at 3...SO i thought i must of read it wrong, i went back and checked the time, and saw that it was at 3, and then got worried...So i called her back, and she said she had just received about 10 emails saying the same thing i said , all from family and friends that she sent them too also....She had to leave work, because she was so freaked out that she could not beleive she did that and could not remember..When she got home she checked her email, and sure enough she had sent all of the pictures...PLUS a very ugly email to her mother in law...LOL...I hate to laugh, because she was so upset...And her mother in law was terribly upset...Then she realized the only thing she took was ambiem,,,anyway , that was enough for her to never take them again, and hopefully she mades amends with her mother in law...
sorry for the long story...
r2r

[sacvic50]

Oh my goodness... I am so sorry.. the previous posting my fingers didn't work with my brain.. It was supposed to say
I WOULD NOT BLOW OFF MY DOCTORS INSTRUCTIONS......
I just reread it after I pushed send and realized a word was missing...Sorry..
I REPEAT DO NOT BLOW OFF YOUR LICENSED MD FOR ANY INFORMATION YOU  CAN GET FROM ME..I am well intentioned and reasonably intelligent but not a medical professional.

Sorry for the mis statement

Vickey

[sacvic50]

There are lots of different tranquilizers, ones like valium, atavan, Xanex, Serax, are in a class called benzodiazipines (excuse the spelling, my spell check doesn't include the pharmacy).  This class of drugs is highly addictive psychologically and physically. And in fact from what I have read these can be harder to kick for some people than opiates.  The also are more dangerous because going cold turkey off a benzo can send you into convulsions and you could die.  I am not trying to scare you but if you have a problem with an addictive personality I would steer clear of that particular class of drugs.  The other sleep remedy I would warn you about is very widely prescribed now and that is Ambien.  The problem with Ambien is that one can take Ambien and be sound asleep and still functioning.  I know this from first hand experience having went sleep driving one evening during which I've been told I got my car something called high centered where I drove over the center raised part of the intersection and got my car stuck, not once but twice.  Then I proceeded to scare the **** out of my two passengers who did not realize I was asleep and driving.. if you listen to the ads on tv for Ambien they add a very fast worded trailer at the end of the ad saying that instances of sleep driving, walking and eating have been reported after taking this drug with no memory of  the event.  It turns out that it is more common than they would like you to know.  I have a friend who works in a county mental health crisis unit that says that they get 5 or 6 people a week that the police bring in that are out cruising, walking...and wake up in the morning in the psych ward with no memory of how they got there, the last thing they remembered was taking their sleeping pill and going to bed.  When It happened to me I woke up in the drunk tank asleep on a cement floor.  When I woke up I had some girl sleeping on my legs and no idea of what had happened, and my car was considered totalled not because I had a big major crash but because I just kept messing up and running into things.. Thank god it was in the middle of the night and my nephew wrestled me to the ground and called the police to haul my *** off because they couldn't figure out what the f--- had happened to his incredibly nice, (normally great driver) auntie. I didn't hurt anyone but myself and my Nissan.  But as a life lesson it pretty much sucked.
     Seriously, if you can't sleep try Melatonin, or Unisom or I have been curious about the new Alteril that is a combination of Melatonin, Valerian root, and L-tryptophan.  That is a new threesome combo I've been seeing alot of late night ads for. If your doctor is really concerned about your lack of sleep than I would definitely blow him off, but most easy fix's come with a price attached and just make really sure that it is one you are willing to pay.
     And for the record, I once went 23 days with no sleep whatsoever.  I was kicking Methadone at the time and wouldn't wish that on anyone, but even that didn't kill me.
Good luck..The best remedy for sleeplessness I can think of is not having any major worries and 4 to 12 hours of fantastically wild sex...try that and you will sleep like a baby.

Vickey

[Ella789]

By short term does your Dr. mean a few weeks?  You may need to do something, you gotta sleep, it's the way your body heals mostly.  It wouldn't hurt to just try it to see how it works for you.  You would find out before too long.
Ella

[worried878]

there r lots of drugs for sleep..did he say which one he was going to put u on?