Need help/suggestions to beat my habit of using sleep aids to get to sleep.

[eckstg]

I need to find ways to stop my daily routine of taking over the counter nighttime sleep aids with Diphenhydramine to get to sleep.I take way over the recommended amounts.I usually take 5 or 6 (50mg gelcaps) also 1 (50mg) amitriptyline hcl and about 60 to 90 minutes later 1 generic (10mg ambien).Sad thing is i have built such a tolerance that i still find myself awake 3 hours later after all those medications sometimes.

I developed this habit very young in my teens by taking a couple tylenol pms on school nights.This bad habit just got worse with time.I think i have been taking the Diphenhydramine on a regular basis around 200mg and up since maybe 2002.I know this will catch up to me if i continue.I just started the ambien this year and the amitriptyline hcl the last couple of months.The amitriptyline hcl was recommended by my doctor after i told him of suffering from depression.I didnt want to start taking antidepressants like zoloft and prozac because you have to take them multiple times every day and have withdrawals if you want to quit so he prescribed the amitriptyline hcl to take once a day before bedtime.

I plan to come up with a plan to stop all daily caffeine intake.All i drink throughout the week is caffeinated sweet tea and on weekends diet sundrop.Both are loaded with caffeine.Im gonna switch my sweet tea to green tea i do believe if the home brew kind or nutraplanets are reasonable.Ill also switch the diet sundrops to either green tea also or caffeine free.I was drinking a cup of coffee prior to workouts but i think i may need to stop this also.I also have been taking 1 (25mg) bronkaid/ephedra tablet preworkouts.Should i stop the pre workout ephedra and coffee or think it may good enough to just quit the regular tea and sundrop?

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

[MuscleScience]

I have been doing it for 9 years now. I can not sleep without something to calm my mind down. It runs none stop and I just cant shut if off like most people can. BTW Generic Ambien is the worst generic drug I have ever took. It works way worse than Name Brand and has more sides. I am going to pay extra for the real think next time I get my script renewed.

[Nooomoto]

Stay up for 48 hrs.

[Okinawa_Power]

I am addicted to PM pills.........Just the way life goes....At least our Beta 2 receptors will never get satuated.... :P

[Kale]

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[*El Diablo*]

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