I recently joined back up to planet fitness and started working out again. last night I had my PW a little too late, got home, took my ambien. woke up toy Girlchat discord being like “etf is this” and i had no recollection of what they were replying to. but here is what I wrote, allegedly, at 11:43 pm:

”I do not acknowledge the lunk alarm.

I do not believe that any man nor woman nor great warrior of genderqueer has hear the Angelous bell of the lunk alarm.

It haunts us. It hangs, a spectre over all our toilings, a voice in the garden, espousing temperance in self improvement, caution in movement.

And yet. Who among us has borne witness to the tolling of the lunk alarm? Who has heard or seen this great beast awaken? Not I. Surely not I, though there in the free weights section lurk demons, scoundrels and ruffians who would seek to set off this grand series of events. By their gruntings and selfies we are shown.

What if it’s all an illusion. The alarm, Sauron’s dead eye in its case of plastic, ever waiting to illuminate. What if we could free it but choose not to?

Who weaves these tales of heroes being dashed to ruin by the alarm? Is it the heroes? Never. Is it the company? Certainly not. It is always, and so shall it ever be, your friend Kevin. Kevin who you cannot tell to be joking when he makes Trump references. Kevin the Victim. Kevin who says these things and he says them to the internet and we pick them up and fly with them away to all corners of the internet, to spread his poison.

Nay, friends, fear not the lunk alarm. come delight in $15/mon membership and 24 hour availability. We shall smite all demons.”

I do actually feel like people prevaricate too much on the sort of annoying culture there (especiall the lunk alarm) and not as much on how it’s an affordable, okay gym for casual gym goers, but I didn’t know I felt this passionately about it.

So my concern is, I‘m taking 300mg pregabalin daily as prescribed by my doc. I also take diazepam as needed but rarely (very rarely) use it but have taken it 10mg the last 2 days. I want to try the old Zolpidem (prescribed year ago by another doc) I still have from the same doc for sleeping issues.

I thought for that, it might be best to not take any Pregabalin at all (and obviously no diazepam at all obviously anyways, which I don‘t take at all anyways).

What would your suggestion be for this?
I can also get over the day with only 100-200mg Pregabalin. My thought was maybe even go one day completely off of Pregabalin (Lyrica) so 0mg for the one day I want to try the Zolpidem (Ambien) just to be out of risk of any interactions or biasing/reducing the potential effects of the zolpidem.

What would you do, what should one do, safest use (except the safest use of not taking any Zolpidem at all obviously)?

My ideas:

a. Take only 100mg (maybe 200mg) Pregabalin and take some Zolpidem. But: How much? I have a blister of 4-5 capsules.

b. Take no Pregabalin at all and take some Zolpidem.

c. any other recommendations, experiences, knowledge welcome

Also to the big questions apart from my regular treatment of daily pregabalin and the potential interaction of it with Zolpidem:

1. Is Pregabalin mixed with Zolpidem an issue? If yes, how, why and at what risk?

2. What dose of Zolpidem is a good starter dose? And what effects should be expected? What should one try to look out for or avoid?

3. If (I never experienced Pregabalin withdrawal so far, even when missing a dose, but just in case) I should choose the Plan b (mentioned above) and take no Pregabalin at all on the day I want to try the Zolpidem, could Zolpidem be pharmacologically effective enough to calm down any Pregabalin withdrawal/rebound to not dampen the real effects of the Zolpidem or would the sudden absence of Pregabalin in my system disrupt and disturb and bias the real effect of Zolpidem?

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, experiences, and pharmacological knowledge very welcome!

Safe use as possible, always.