Day 2 without any sleep

I don't know if this would work for you, but if I can't get to sleep, I take a swig or two or ZzzzQuil. It makes me drowsy and keeps me asleep.

In the U.K. GPs rarely prescribes keeping tablets at all. I beggedfjr she when I was diagnosed without cancer the second time on top of something ehse reslky stressful in my life- GP refused. MY surgeon luckily understood my desperation but even she would only prescribe 2 weeks. I'm amazed you have been on the for so long and they still work , but I even more surprised they would arbitrarily leave you without for two weeks 😳

They really don't like sleeping tablets at all, do they? I've had the same.

When I was desperate I used travel sickness tablets that made me drowsy.

I have had so much trouble getting my doctor, the old one and the new one, to fill this. In part it's due to new regulations. Like you, I haven't slept in two days and I'm exhausted and miserable. When I try to sleep I just slip into a sort of waking sleep where I hear everything but am having all sorts of terrible dreams that feel real. I'm in and out of a light sleep all night long and it feels like I spent all night working.

I hate this. Nothing else helps me sleep and I've been taking it for years, so I wish I could just get my damn prescription already.

Ugh - I feel your frustration. I haven’t slept well for the past year. Very often I only sleep for an hour or two. I’ve finally made an appointment at the dr, but I’m in the U.K. so I’m not expecting anything to change:(

Me too!! Every 90days we got through that with the Lunesta/Esziplicone is the generic one, now. It's the only thing that works after several trials, a sleep study etc.. never go into a full sleep even with a pacer. I like the Lunesta because it shuts your brain off. Sometimes I'll take a benedryl with it as I'm a mouth breather so it help keep me a little clearer. But every 90 I don't sleep for four days with the new rules. That part is just broke. Some it has to do with soo many surgeries. I'm not on a lot of medication. But yes I too have noticed with Predisone or zpack type stuff it's worse sometimes have to take two. 
 I know some peas don't like it. Dh doesn't take it every day but when he has trouble. He says he gets a metalic taste and he can tell it's kicking in so he will crash. I surprisingly have no side effects. Ambien was scarier. I think they only sell the generic form. I take the 3mg which i believe is the highest.
 I hope you can find something that helps. Not sleeping affects everything so i'ts scary to to go too long! Here's to happy nights for you!!

Have they learned nothing from the opioid epidemic?

You can't prescribe serious medications to people long-term and then suddenly over-regulate them, restricting patients from needed doses, without serious problems ensuing.

I'm really sorry to hear this for all y'all who are/will be suffering.

   This 100%! I am really sick of this shit!  Medication should be between the patient and his/her doctor. That's it! It's bad enough that we in this country have to pay so much of our money for medical insurance but then to have the government or the insurance companies decide when or if to fill a prescription insane. You just can't f* with people's lives like this. I'm so sorry for what you are going through cahwoo.

Something like this happened to me too recently. My health insurance (for which we pay $1,500) a month for and that's just for DH and I decided I couldn't fill my migraine medication for Zomig generic which I take when I get a migraine for another month and a half. I get a migraine every other day. I have had chronic migraines since June of 2017. They just cut me off suddenly 2 weeks ago. Thank goodness my health care worker who I see at my neurologist's office-she's a PA-C encouraged me month's ago to apply for my medical marijuana card in Maryland. If she hadn't done that, and I hadn't applied, gotten accepted and been using it for a month to find out what strains worked for me I would have been up shit's creek (please pardon my French on this post but I am livid about this).

As it turned out I was able to turn to medical marijuana to kill the pain when I got the migraines. If I hadn't gone through the process and already had the card it would have taken a month to do that and I would have endured a month of unrelenting, horrid pain. But my point is-the insurance company didn't know about any of this. They simply didn't care-all they cared about were their profits. I'm paying my $1,500 a month so why can't I get my medication from them! Who are they to decide not to give it to me when my doctor says I need it? I have an appointment with my PA-C this week. 

Between this and the pre-existing conditions on the other thread-it's enough to make you so angry! Vote in November-that's all you can do. 

OP, I've taken Trazadone for years for sleep. I can get to sleep but I can't stay asleep. Maybe that's something you can switch to that they will fill? 

I had trouble sleeping after recent surgery and the doctor had me take unisom. It did help.

There are two versions of Unisom. The one in the blue box has diphenhydramine which actually keeps me awake. The version with an orange label has a stronger active ingredient (doxylamine succinate). That's the version I'd recommend. www.walmart.com/ip/Unisom-SleepTabs-Doxylamine-succinate-Tablets-32ct/10307672

Have you tried Zzzzquil?  It does the dame thing without the added medications?

SUCCESS

I had to physically go to the office to ask if they had a physical script for me, she said no, let me find out what's going on, in the end I waited an hour and a half and had to be seen and pay a copay even though I was just seen as a new patient 3 weeks ago but I HAVE MY AMBIEN AND IT HAS REFILLS. I can't wait to go to bed tonight and not lie there in a state of semi-consciousness until 4AM, only to be woken 45 min later by my alarm.

Also, it was sent to the wrong Walgreen's, but that was an easy fix and a mere half hour wait. Lol I've really earned this one.

The latest one I ran into was that my insurance company would only pay for 15 pills for 25 days. Which would be great if someone could tell me WHEN I won't be able to sleep. The 2nd time this happened, the pharmacist offered a discount card, and I paid out of pocket for close to my copay! My doctor also doubled the dosage and told me to cut them in half in case I had problems filling it again.

As a side note, I later learned the insurance company will pay for the full prescription for men.

This is what’s in the Costco sleep aid and also what is in NyQuil. ZzzzQuil has a different active ingredient.