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?

Absolutely. The cheaper versions are usually Oxide which is an osmotic laxative and poorly absorbed by the body.

I take Glycinate too and it helps my quality of sleep in general but for stress, a build up of lack of sleep, or being in a hotel, the blue pill wins.

If your manager is letting you work on 5 days of little to no sleep they're exceptionally greedy. If you rang in sick they'd have to sort it out. Their lack of planning isn't your problem.

Your boss is basically saying fuck you, fuck everyone on the road, I don't care if you swerve into traffic or pedestrians because you're nodding off at the wheel and your cognitive function is impaired as long as what little cognitive function you've got left you give to us to make us money.

I've got a child, he doesn't sleep very well (well he does better now he's on melatonin but not perfect) and I've got insomnia, I've had it on and off all my life. Let me tell you that I'd rather have the sort of sleep cycle where I can go back to sleep if my kid wakes up and goes back to sleep than psychosis inducing insomnia because that's what happens.

Fuck people who say well I've got kids and I get on with it. Don't hold yourself to their standards. It's not a race to the bottom, you're allowed to be absolutely on your knees gasping for sleep without other people coming and telling you you're fine they've got it worse when they probably don't.

Yes agree on the Magnesium Glycinate. I can't find a soluble version, so for my cocktail I open a capsule (I have swallowing issues due to other stuff), and use the powder from them. As I have Afib I also take Magnesium Taurate if I get a run of arrythmia and it's brilliant also. Obviously if the irregular heartbeat lasts I go to A+E if necessary, I'm not stooooopid 😊

I buy it online without prescription - when my daughter had it it was prescribed by her consultant but she was a child - as an adult I’ve never had an issue

I second Bach’s rescue gummies I only use half and I’m off for the night. Be careful with Kalms they made my dizzy after a while, it does say on the leaflet but I’d not seen it.

Ive just called docs this morning asking if I can be prescribed some melatonin she was a junior doctor and not sure if they were able to prescribe it. She started telling me I could get it in Holland and Barrett you cant. She is going to ask one of the senior doctors and get back to me. If they say no then I will order online from the states. My trouble is I fall asleep but wake up around 3-4 am and cant get back its chronic now and really struggle with the lack of sleep and trying to get through work etc.

I use sleep aid, find it really good

All the own brand versions of nytol I have tried have worked well. You can get some in boots, Tesco, Morrisons.

Phenergan is also a type1 anti histamine, same as Benadryl. It’s promethazine.

Take as low a dose as you can, as infrequently as you can, apparently. Though I have heard the link to alz.is debateable.

Yes it is debatable. Some think the link is more that people who took sleeping tablets that long (3 years consistently) did so because they had spent years before with insomnia. So they think its the insomnia rather than the sleeping tablets that is the link to Dementia and/or Alzheimer's. Who knows. I dont want to scare anyone so that is why I said in that post its not definitive and is it the insomnia or the tablets. It just gives me pause sometimes. But I still take when I need to

I hope melatonin works for you, if not.. I found montmorency cherry helped me stay asleep better.

Im considering joining one of those online clinics that prescribe mj medicinally, to see if I can get the kind of sleep gummies that have thc in them, a friend in America gave me some and they were truly liberating. Fantastic sleep, no grogginess, and after a week on them, I felt so light and refreshed. Tiny amount of thc in them, paired with cbd and melatonin.

Phenergan

Yeah my manager said “I haven’t had a full nights sleep in years with the kids, you just have to cope don’t you”
if I go to bed when I get home I’ll manage a few hours but then awake all night, or I can stay up and likely sleep 3am -6am. Shit either way

I’ve found some Kirkland sleep aid but it’s out of date… guessing it’ll be fine to take

Then you are either buying it illegally, buying it from abroad, or it isn't melatonin.

They work brilliantly for me but are so addictive.

Your manager is an arse. I very much doubt they'll have your back in the event of a bad road accident.

Yes, you get it sent over from the US. It’s the real deal. I use Piping Rock.

I use melatonin from piping rock too. I have found I only need 1-2 mg

I’m going to take the Kirkland sleep aid tonight and see if it helps
and no, probably not

I don't know if this is worth mentioning, but - if any of you drink alcohol in the evening, then waking at about 3am is the alcohol wearing off.

Alcohol can get you to sleep, but (the lack of it) will also wake you up.

Another vote for phenergen- on prescription. Makes me a bit woozy next day tho

I was absolutely exhausted but still waking in the middle of the night & lying awake for hours. The only thing that's helped night time waking is mirtazapine. It's been a life saver

I occasionally use amitriptyline 10mg (on prescription ) if I've had a run of bad sleep. I have to take it at 6 or 7 in the evening as it makes me groggy the next day, but it gives me a brilliant night's sleep.
A friend takes it every day & doesn't get the grogginess unless she goes up to 20mg.

Ok 😂

Low doses of mirtazipine. It’s not prescribed for insomnia but is bloody useful!