Q: I am an avid reader of your column. You have given safe, sound advice on a number of different maladies. I’m a 61-year-old female, white, 5’7” and weigh 125 pounds. I am now and will always be a recovering alcoholic. I drank for 40 years and it wasn’t until I drank so heavily between 2000 and 2005 that I lost everything and almost died twice that I stopped.
I am now moderately depressed and have had a problem sleeping for years. I’ve been put on amitriptyline, Ativan, Ambien, Remular, Seroquel, Lunesta and trazodone and I still can’t get a full night’s sleep. It’s like I have a time clock in my head that goes off every two hours. I will get up, have a glass of milk and go back to bed to drift of only awaken again. The PA I see told me she is at the end of her rope.
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