"i have many incurable diseases that are very painful. one of those is called fibromyalgia. when you have fibromyalgia, you rarely-if ever go to stage 4 sleep. without ambien, i can be awake for 2-3 days. in pain, exhausted, crying and not able to sleep.
i have been on all otc medications for sleep. i have also tried ambien cr (which for some reason doesn&#039;t work at all for me), lunesta, sonata, and chloral hydrate. (for those who don&#039;t know chloral hydrate is very strong). none of those worked. ambien does!"