I have been having problems sleeping for probably over a year now.  I did get a prescription for Ambien and it does really help.  Actually, it completely knocks me out which is a good thing when you need to sleep.  When I started taking it, I didn't take it every night.  If I had a night or two where I felt like I got no sleep then I would take it.  Well eventually I started taking it every night.  I wasn't thinking last week and took after I had been drinking and it made me so out of it that it scared me.  So I decided that I need to wean myself away from it.  Oh and not take it when I've been drinking - oops. 

So I've stopped taking it even though it's so tempting.  Of course, I'm not sleeping for crap.  I just make myself lay there and obviously at some point I sleep.  This last week was spring break so I could sleep later in the morning since the boys didn't have school.  It's going to be hard to adjust to the school schedule again this next week.  Why does it seem like you can't ever sleep well until after 5 am?  Then I take a nap in the afternoon which I know is the wrong thing to do when you can't fall asleep at night.  It's just so easy to "rest my eyes" at nap time and then I'm out. 

Okay this is turning into a pointless, thoughtless ramble but what can I say, I haven't been getting enough sleep.