Getting Off Of Ambien Or Lunesta

Reducing Sleeping Pill Doses: Let the Insomnia Nightmare Begin.

January 19, 2013   ·   By   ·   No Comments   ·   Posted in Getting Off Of Ambien Or Lunesta, Home Page Enabled

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Recently, the FDA has recommended that prescribing doctors and pharmaceutical companies begin reducing the doses of Ambien and two other sleep medications by half. Nine million Americans take sleeping pills on a regular basis and the thought of not getting their normal dose  raises some legitimate fears.

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Quitting Ambien: Study Shows High Cancer Risk.

November 1, 2012   ·   By   ·   No Comments   ·   Posted in Getting Off Of Ambien Or Lunesta, Home Page Enabled, Sleep Medications

A recent study reports that the 6% to 10% of Americans  using  prescription sleeping pills such as zolpidem (Ambien), temazepam (Restoril), eszopiclone (Lunesta) and zaleplon (Sonata) are up to 35% more likely to develop some form of cancer, and far more likely to die prematurely, than those who take no prescription sleep aids whatsoever.

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Ambien Side Effects: Study Shows Why Patients Waking Up on Zolpidem.

January 6, 2012   ·   By   ·   3 Comments   ·   Posted in Adverse Effects of Ambien and Lunesta, Getting Off Of Ambien Or Lunesta, Home Page Enabled, Sleep Medications

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It seems nowadays that everyone has heard of someone who has taken Ambien or Ambien CR and exhibited bizarre behavior while not fully awake.

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Software Developers and Insomnia: Pushing Beta Brainwaves to Extremes.

December 19, 2011   ·   By   ·   No Comments   ·   Posted in Getting Off Of Ambien Or Lunesta, Home Page Enabled, Insomnia Problems

“When it was time for bed, I would just lay there with my eyes closed and watch streams of code in my head”. says Charles Bellisamo, a software engineer in Chicago describing his nightly experiences with insomnia as “having a brain that was stuck in 5th gear”.

According to a recent study by Sarrafi Zadeh S & Begum K entitled:  “Association between insomnia and quality of life: an exploratory study among software engineers “.

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