• @Iheartcheese
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    364 months ago

    Do they even prescribe that anymore? That shit was horrible

    • Ellia Plissken
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      304 months ago

      general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who’s having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn’t comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien

      • @Iheartcheese
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        174 months ago

        You don’t hear horror stories about it anymore. Who was it that almost drove off a cliff? Jack Nicholson?

        • Ellia Plissken
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          74 months ago

          he considered it a psych drug. this is the same Doctor who would ask me if I wanted a prostate exam or not during my physical. like who asks that? nobody wants one, but at a certain age everybody needs one every year. found out later it’s because he was a germaphobe

    • Oh yeah. It still seems to be a preferred option. Dependency doesn’t seem to be an issue, although tolerance does. Not everyone has quite OP’s reaction, although it’s not uncommon.