sleeping pill,what is thr dose begin on,

[sg]

Stilnoct

[redcrx]

ask the GP who prescribed it

[hailthechimp]

sleeping pill,what is thr dose begin on,

You what?

[sg]

Sorry, I have been given 5mg tablets - one a day.
is this common or average as a starter or ongoing case?

thanks

[DrFilth]

some are 5mg or some are 10mg

after taking a sleeping tablet you may have daytime drowsiness or loss of cordination the next day. there are other side effects


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[sqad617]

sg....are you a doctor?

[DrFilth]

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/100002467 .html



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[mallam]

> sg....are you a doctor?

That is a bit cryptic, sqad. Would a doctor post typos on here rather than look it up in the formulary? Perh you meant DrFilth.

We have exchanged pleasantries before, I think, which strongly suggested that you are one, and your site name implies you are in some medical corps or other, right?

Sg, I first knew your med as Stilnox, because it was sent to me clandestinely and no doubt illegally by my brother�s wife�s sister, who was a doctor in another country (now retd, so I hope beyond disciplinary action!) � she seems to have sympathized with the impossibility of getting anything prescribed in this country which bloody works.

So you are lucky, sg. I was on 10mg from the start, and THEN got my GP to prescribe it under the generic name Zolpidem. I had been on it for 10 yrs before I was so zonked by the rigours of hospitalization that I have been able to sleep all of 5-6 hrs a day (of grossly disturbed sleep) without it.

So it is NOT subject to the law of diminishing returns (which is not to say it was ever REALLY able to knock me or my BP out!), and moreover it is NOT addictive, or deserving of all the fuss made about it. I had exactly the same experience with Updike�s Halcion, which WAS banned to shut the scaremongers and litigious Americans up, and Lorazepam (NP Ativan), which survived the ridiculous fuss.

[mallam]

At times like this of course, no-one could describe what any of these drugs whose wonders I was celebrating here earlier give you as remotely resembling sleep. More like total insomnia, but not minding it so much, and probably even then only if you throw Tramadol and Co-Codamol into the equation as I have been doing.