Is NIght Nurse any good to help me sleep on a 13 hour flight?

[Zohz123]

Flying abroad on Tuesday, it's a 13 hour flight with no stops- I'm not great at sleeping on planes, will Night Nurse do the job?

Be careful - Night Nurse gives me terrible restless legs. It is a known side effect. In fact, all sleeping tablets do. I took a sleeping tablet for a long night flight once, and spent the whole flight fidgeting or walking around to try and stop the restless legs. Nightmare flight!

Nytol are good for sleeping in planes.

Nytol is wonderful for this sort of thing.

You need the over the counter version of Nytol, not the herbal one you can pick up off the shelf (or Boots' own brand Sleepeze which are cheaper). Two of those should knock you out for a good 8 hours.

Have you tried NN before? If so how did you get in with it?

When I have a bad cold the biggest consolation is taking NN, I bloody love it as I get a solid, deep sleep.

Wine is brilliant. Not too much but just enough to relax me.

I've never had NN before- ever! So reading reviews and things, I'm confused. Either I have it and have the best sleep ever, or I end up overtired and drowsy or with other scary symptoms. So I'm just weighing up my options. It's a night flight so I might see how I go- if I'm looking to be alive and bright eyed after the first hour, I might take it if it looks like I won't fall asleep. Just the idea of 13 hours awake on a plane feels like my worst nightmare!!

Boots night cough relief medicine (same shelf behind counter as NN etc - dark blue label on bottle does the trick for me. Took it first time for the actual purpose, then have used it on a few occasions since purely to get a decent night's sleep. No grog in the morning. Takes about 30 minutes to affect me, and this is from someone who was prescribed Zopiclone and it had zero effect on me.

Maybe a trial run first?

A couple of piriton, a couple of cocodamol and a couple of large glasses of wine. That was my go to sleep inducing cocktail when I used to work nights.

Actually I know a few air crew and they swear by antihistamines for guaranteed sleep. Can't remember which one though.

Over the counter sleeping pills are all antihistamines as far as I know, they just package them differently and charge way more!

Take a half dose of NN and an eye mask ... if you don't sleep take another half dose. It always gives me the best sleep ... but sometimes a full dose or slightly over estimated dose means I'm knackered when I wake up and have once slept for 16 hours straight!

Phenergan. (antihistamine) there is a dosage in the instructions which is for insomnia.