To consider buying sleeping pills online

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I have always had a history of insomnia coming and going, normally only on nights where I particularly need sleep, e.g. Before exams etc. At school it would always be Sunday nights I couldn't sleep on. I get anxious about it, and normally by about midnight I know I won't be getting to sleep at all.

Since starting my new job in September which I quite enjoy but is quite hard work Sunday nights have again become a problem, as I know I need to get up at 6 for an early shift.

Doctors won't give me sleeping tablets. I understand why, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about this problem.

Over the last 20 years I have tried all manner of remedies, meditation etc. Essentially if my mind says I need to get to sleep I become anxious and won't sleep. I can do breathing and grounding exercises til the cows come home but it ain't happening. My tired frazzled mind keeps me awake.

One can't call in sick for work because of lack of sleep, and if I ever did this it would just make the pressure worse for the next Sunday night.

So WIBU to order 14 zopiclone online. They cost a lot. 50 quid, but if I only needed one every Sunday night that's essentially 3 months of sleep.

Ethically, legally etc I think I know it's not a good idea, but I'm not sure what else to do?

Perhaps if I did it and then gave them to my DH with instructions for only one a week, that could safeguard me from addiction?

I feel for you OP, having had horrible bouts of insomnia. I've used phenergan in the past and had it prescribed. My husband was working a horrible shift pattern and was actually prescribed real sleeping pills, nitrazepam I think, by his GP. It might be worth finding another GP as they do not all have the same approach and you do sound like someone who would benefit from being prescribed a few. Good luck.

I understand where your coming from OP I have trouble sleeping I always have I don't produce enough melotanin to make me sleep when I was a child they gave me melotanin to make me sleep so that my mum could have 3 nights of sleep I was also put on sleeping tablets as a child which worked until my body got use to them. I have tried loads of different herbal tablets nothing works and the doctor refuses to give me sleeping tablets.

Buy promethazine form the pharmacist. Cheap and non addictive. Lots of nurses use it to help sleep after night shifts etc.

Promethazine is in night nurse, or can be very useful for insomnia.

Just to say thank you to the posters who recommended doxylamine. Fantastic stuff. :)

I have bought Zopi online from a UK site. You have to register and give details so safe. My GP rations these so I bought emergency supply. Only take one a week. It's fine.

There's nothing over the counter in the States that you can't get in the UK.

Everyone I know just uses Benadryl but that doesn't work for me anymore.

I need something. I wake at 2am every night, it's killing me.

I actually tried zopilcone in the Uk years ago. Didn't work for me and I hated it. But I did have a great gp who worked with me so I'd change if I were you.

My gp here wouldn't even give me painkillers when I broke my fucking leg badly for more than a couple of days.

Beware - buying prescription pills online can mean buying counterfit medicines. These look like the real thing but aren't made and tested to the same quality - they may not have the correct level of active substance (or any active substance) or be stable over time... You may well spend your £50 and buy something that does you far more harm than good.

Melatonin works for me. I simply can't sleep - insomnia is the bane of my life.

Do try it if you can. If it works, you can take it indefinitely, unlike sleeping tablets. And it continues to work, you don't need increasingly higher doses.