What happens if you have a Nytol but don’t have time for 8 hours’ sleep?

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I’m sure I read somewhere that if you take a Nytol but don’t have time for a good eight hours of sleep (let’s say you have to wake after only six hours), then you spend the first few hours of the morning desperately groggy. Is that right?

I wouldn't have thought so. They're OTC sleep "aids" not mogadon!

I often take Nytol and they don't make me groggy at all. I never sleep for 8 hours on them. 6 hours max.

Ah bum. Wish I’d taken one now! 🙄

It's a sedating antihistamine. It's a proper medication, that has a tangible effect. It will affect different people differently. If you're sensitive to antihistamines, it could very well make you feel drowsy for a while even after waking. I avoid sedating antihistamines for exactly this reason.

Nytol has no effect on me whatsoever 😳

It does absolutely nothing for me.

You have to sleep faster !
Seriously, I have felt groggy the next day after taking Nytol, or Piriton.

I sometimes get what I call a Nytol hangover where I feel more groggy in the morning even if I've had eight hours sleep.

Please don't get prescription meds online as a PP advised. Have you tried magnesium for sleep? It's really working for me and I've had sleep issues for years.

I feel groggy after taking nytol. But it's better than being awake at 1am!

It leaves me groggy, so I can't take it as I rarely have an 8-9hr option. But I'm a lightweight.

I was prescribed zopiclone once for a short period. They made me feel groggy - didn't like taking them at all. Prescription only and potentially addictive. The "totes legit" online pharmacy sounds anything but.

Makes me groggy but sometimes it is worth it

Just magnesium supplements? Worth a shot - do you know how they help?
I'm assuming my own recent sleep changes are perimenopausal stuff.

Make me feel groggy - but also do t always work. Melatonin from biovia (?) helps me sometimes and has never made me groggy

I find Nytol (one a night dose) is better than Zopiclone as it works just as well but doesn’t make me groggy. Night Nurse is the best though, I always sleep amazingly on it and feel great when I wake up!

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Just supplements but I went to our local independent health shop to ask for advice on which one to get as the staff there know their stuff. They stock one magnesium supplement which is designed to target sleep specifically. Apparently most of us are magnesium deficient because of the way farming has changed, so food which used to contain it naturally doesn't so much any more.

I am the most sceptical person you could meet, but was desperate, and it has improved my sleep. The key thing is that when I wake in the night now, I can get back to sleep - before, if I woke, I was awake for hours. Hasn't happened since I started on the magnesium. Am perimenopausal as well.

I have started taking magnesium supplements and they seem to be helping here too. I’ve suffered from insomnia since I was 6, tried every OTC sleep aid going (and a fair few prescription ones, including zopiclone which didn’t help), and magnesium is the only thing that has made me feel a difference.

@SoyDora can you tell me how long it took before the magnesium supplements started to make a difference? Also do you take a high dose?

Mine are 1000mg. I’m not sure how long exactly, it wasn’t instant but I’ve been taking them daily for a couple of weeks now and have noticed over the past week that I’ve been waking less and finding it easier to drift back off when I do wake.

Nytol does nothing for me, but Night Nurse definitely leaves me feeling groggy in the morning, after six or seven hours' sleep.

Does nothing for me. I buy zop online, too. It's really not that big a deal. Zop is the only thing that works for me. BUT, I have PTSD so not your standard cause of insomnia.

This happened to me last night. Up at 7, didn't get to bed until gone 12, knew I could either: hope to fall asleep naturally but risk laying there awake, or take a nytol and feel groggy as all hell this morning. Took the latter option and had three cups of coffee before 11am!

And night nurse makes me hallucinate.

One thing I will advise: if you use zopiclone and your new to sleep aids, do NOT mix it with doximine and promethazine. I'm very hard to knock off due to my mental health, but once during a really bad jag I took about 3.5 of zop and it wasn't doing anything, so I 20 or so of dox and half a pro (Sominex blue). I went to sleep at last but the next day, I was stoned until about 4pm and that was with doing a 7-mile hike with much elevation gain. I mean, stoned, as in after having a spliff years ago at uni - I don't drink alcohol at all and haven't had a spliff in about 20 years but man, that was funky.

Hallucinating on Night Nurse? That's intense! I've always had trouble sleeping, even before my life became such that I have PTSD but one time, in the early 90s, I was having a bad jag of insomnia and a friend's boyfriend gave me some tabs of a drug called Halcion. Now back in the day, I used to smoke a load of hash, occasionally take LSD (sometimes in combo with hash) or magic mushrooms but that shit made me actually lose time! As in, apparently I was going around like a person, but I had no recollection of an entire day. I never touched that stuff again even though I slept like a log!