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WillyBrandt

(3,892 posts)
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 01:29 PM Nov 2016

Do they sell a 60-hour Ambien?

I can't wait for the election to just be here.

The news for Hillary is uncertain and mixed, but net quite positive -- no guarantees but I think we're good.

That doesn't mean the wait is any easier. I'm so distracted: not terribly productive at work, the backyard is full of leaves, a pile of errands undone. Just keep clicking on twitter feeds for the latest little election nugget.

Few more days!

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Do they sell a 60-hour Ambien? (Original Post) WillyBrandt Nov 2016 OP
LOL LOL LOL onecent Nov 2016 #1
Same here! jaxind Nov 2016 #2
I think we will all suffer from PTSD Motley13 Nov 2016 #3
He should use that Monday night marlakay Nov 2016 #21
With my 12 bottles of wine Mme. Defarge Nov 2016 #4
I Think RobinA Nov 2016 #5
I know! ananda Nov 2016 #6
I can't take it though, I need to vote on Tuesday! onecaliberal Nov 2016 #7
I can relate.. I got nothin' lol Cha Nov 2016 #8
I'm going to do some laundry, listen to a non-political pod-cast. Maybe that'll help! WillyBrandt Nov 2016 #9
I have to pee! lonestarnot Nov 2016 #11
No Glamrock Nov 2016 #12
Wife and I are cleaning the house top to bottom Tuesday night. Best_man23 Nov 2016 #17
Hubby and I going out to movies Tuesday marlakay Nov 2016 #23
And we get an extra hour of nerve wracking fun tomorrow rurallib Nov 2016 #13
I wish Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2016 #14
You don't really want a 60-hour ambien, given the things Ms. Toad Nov 2016 #15
I have to second Ms. Toad's view on Ambien Best_man23 Nov 2016 #16
You must mean "fortunately" you don't sleep walk/drive/etc. while on it. Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2016 #28
You are correct. I'll edit it. Ms. Toad Nov 2016 #29
^^^^^^^this mahina Nov 2016 #22
When I can't stand to follow the news anymore.... geo1 Nov 2016 #24
My cousin turned me on to that account fun n serious Nov 2016 #25
I feel your pain, I would like to go to sleep tonight and wake up doc03 Nov 2016 #26
Surround yourself with people you love. Laffy Kat Nov 2016 #27
Dec 1969 #

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
3. I think we will all suffer from PTSD
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 01:39 PM
Nov 2016


Jimmy Fallon's thank you notes

Thank you daylight savings time for extending this election 1 more hour.

Mme. Defarge

(8,479 posts)
4. With my 12 bottles of wine
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 01:39 PM
Nov 2016

on the grocery store conveyor (it's a 20% discount at New Seasons if you buy a case), I looked sheepishly at the checker and said, "I've got to make it through the rest of the election season somehow" He just nodded sagely and reminded me to not forget my 3 stalks of celery, which he cleverly stuffed into one of the six-packs.

Best_man23

(5,093 posts)
17. Wife and I are cleaning the house top to bottom Tuesday night.
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 08:55 PM
Nov 2016

We have champagne if what we anticipate happens and we elect the first woman President. If Stupid rules the day and we end up with Orange Palpatine, then I have bourbon and a pack of White Owl Demi tips, and I will be drinking and smoking on the cold, concrete floor of my basement.

marlakay

(12,128 posts)
23. Hubby and I going out to movies Tuesday
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 10:52 PM
Nov 2016

Night to see Inferno, somehow that makes sense.

If I watch tv and internet i will go nuts. Hoping its mostly over by time we get home. I am West coast so over earlier usually.

rurallib

(63,094 posts)
13. And we get an extra hour of nerve wracking fun tomorrow
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 02:24 PM
Nov 2016

said to my wife as I went to bed last night "Wake me up @ 6 Wednesday morning."

Ms. Toad

(35,337 posts)
15. You don't really want a 60-hour ambien, given the things
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 06:08 PM
Nov 2016

Last edited Sun Nov 6, 2016, 01:44 AM - Edit history (1)

people taking regular ambien have done while asleep . . . you might wake up in the middle of a Trump crowd wearing a "Make America Great Again" hag, shouting sexist/racist/etc. slogans.

Just sayin'

(Full disclosure - I take ambien occasionally and, fortunately, don't sleep walk/drive/etc. while on it. Or, if I do, my spouse is keeping mum about it.)

Edited to correct "unfortunately" to "fortunately."

Best_man23

(5,093 posts)
16. I have to second Ms. Toad's view on Ambien
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 08:51 PM
Nov 2016

Stuff is NASTY (and not in a Nasty Woman sort of way)!!! My wife was prescribed Ambien and once she got thru the period where she needed it, found it almost impossible to go off. What it finally came down to was running out of her prescription on a holiday weekend and not being able to get it renewed. She made the decision right then and there to go cold turkey. A week of sleepless nights before she was finally able to sleep out of pure exhaustion.

I refer to that period as "sleeping with the Ambien".

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,984 posts)
28. You must mean "fortunately" you don't sleep walk/drive/etc. while on it.
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 12:54 AM
Nov 2016

Because I do, and its a real drag.

I had to stop taking it, which sucks, as it actually helped me sleep, except when I was sleep walking and doing odd things like eating food I don't like when I wouldn't even have been hungry, sending emails, etc. Nothing dangerous, but I had no way of knowing what I might do next time I took it.

Ms. Toad

(35,337 posts)
29. You are correct. I'll edit it.
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 01:44 AM
Nov 2016

For me, it's innocuous - aside from losing the ability to grab the right word quite as quickly as usual when I've taken it several nights in a row. And even when I've taken it for an extended period of time, once whatever is keeping me from sleeping passes I can stop taking it and still sleep like a baby.

geo1

(79 posts)
24. When I can't stand to follow the news anymore....
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 10:54 PM
Nov 2016

I visit The Denald - best Donald Trump parody on twitter. He fools folks on both sides, and tonight one of his "victims" was David Corn.

https://twitter.com/realDenaldTrump

Laffy Kat

(16,504 posts)
27. Surround yourself with people you love.
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 11:38 PM
Nov 2016

I am spending Tuesday evening with other supporters, a few close friends and one offspring. Some libations for the drinkers and warm apple cider for the rest. I have Monday off and am making some cut out sugar cookies with my donkey cookie cutter; icing them red, white, and blue, of course! Maybe a pot of chili, I haven't decided on real food yet.

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