The best sleeping tablets?

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To anyone who uses sleeping tablets, please could you let me know the best OTC ones you’ve found that work but don’t leave you feeling like a zombie the next day?

Melatonin, ordered on iHerb and shipped from The States.

The Lemme Sleep gummies. You have to order them from the states though.

Three piriton give me a great sleep.

Which one did you get? Do you order through their UK site?

Night nurse!

For the rare occasions (thankfully) when sleep just won't come, or if I wake in the middle of the night, I make up my little potion and ZZZZZZZs all the way pretty soon after. Remember, it is only occasionally and it's relatively harmless just the same IMV.

One fizzy Aldi multivit (has magnesium)
One fizzy magnesium tablet (Boots)
Half (250mg) or a full (500mg) fizzy paracetemol.

Put them all in a small glass of water, chug it down and you'll be asleep before you know it.

Well that's what I use.

Do any of these 'solutions' not make you feel hungover the next day?

Melatonin - from Piping Rock - usually on a 2 for 1 offer, extra strength. Saved me from the grips of menopausal insomnia

I use Nytol - helps me fall asleep, I sometimes take another one if I wake up at 2am. No groggyness in the morning.

Over the counter in a chemists.

I use the OTC Nytol as well. Usually feel great the next day, though I’ve heard some people do feel groggy.

Phenergan, buy it on eBay or a pharmacy, or get a prescription. It’s a type1 anti histamine like Benadryl.

Phenergen or Piriton

Promethazine anti histamines

Kirkland Sleep Aid, it's an anti histamine and not addictive. Excellent stuff.

I've just got some Kalms Night and I find them brilliant! One on a night, I'm asleep within the hour and no grogginess the next morning. They relax you enough to get off to sleep. I wasn't holding out much hope with OTC sleeping tablets, but I am impressed.
I don't always have issues sleeping, but sometimes anxiety hits and these really help.

Not zopiclone that’s for sure. I’m going through a terrible period of insomnia at the moment, GP prescribed these and they have made zero difference at all. So I’m therefore watching with interest.

I like magnesium and phenergen.

I use the Boots and Tesco own brand ones from their pharmacy, they're brilliant!

Half (not a whole one) a Sominex, which is promethazine hydrochloride.

A whole one leaves me wrecked.

A half one requires a couple of cups of tea but is otherwise alright.

I’ve known crisis teams suggest promethazine for insomnia

i like valerian root -
from H+B
good stuff - no hangover

Nytol is basically anti-histamine.

OP, basically all these replies are saying antihistamine.

Night Nurse but be very careful about the dose.

err no … melatonin, valerian root, magnesium are not antihistamines!!

Kirkland's Sleep Aid or melatonin.
The KSA is powerful - I use less than half a tablet.