I’ve been suffering from sleep maintenance insomnia for 2 months now. My doctor prescribed me Ambien 5mg, but it didn’t work. Fast forward he gave me 6.25 of Ambien CR but it didn’t make me fall asleep. So he told me it was okay to take 5mg of regularAambien and the 6.25mg of Ambien CR to get to sleep. Problem is I still wake up after 4-5 hours. He said I can take another 5mg if I wake up to fall asleep again and while that has gotten me 5-7 hours of sleep I’m still tired through the day.

It has caused me incredible depression and anxiety since I don’t know what it is. My doctor said that insomnia can come before depression symptoms so he also started me on Lexapro. I don’t have sleep apnea or RLS since I did a sleep study and nothing abnormal came up on a blood test for lipid panel, comprehensive metabolic panel, CBC, TSH w/ reflex to ft4 and hemoglobin A1c.

Any ideas if a different medication will be able to help me such as Luesta, Temazepam, ect… I’m honestly stopped as to why I can’t get a full 8 hours of sleep.