rate sleeping pills

"sleep assure" grade: A

it smells like ass, though.

does it leave an aftertaste the next day? i can't stand that

Simply sleep is supposedly Benadryl minus some of the unnecessary-for-sleep bits.

Benadryl, though, does a B- job for me. The next day I'm groggy, but I do sleep well.

whatever it is, it is hurting my brain

Remerol is good at putting me out for about 1.5 days.

Ambien has fans but I have not tried.

I <3 ambien but it WILL fuck u up

I find that a bit of high-quality molly puts me in a right decent state for sleep.

Also good for sleep is not drinking 5 pots of coffee during the day.

"Not-coffee" doesn't come in a pill yet, tho.

"sleep assure"

Herbal Blend (equal proportions of Passionflower Flower, Valerian Root, Chamomile)
25 mg

GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid) 10 mg
Pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P5P) 5 mg

Melatonin
(N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine)** 3 mg

But does it have any homeopathic ingredients?

doesn't need any

taking a sleeping pill at 5am when you have to be at work by 9: in retrospect very stupid ( imade it in on time but i'm so groggy all i can do is eat brownies that someone brought in and drink tea and thinking about putting my head somewhere soft)

I use melatonin to help reset my jetlag, I find it pretty effective at forcing sleep upon me.

dud

Lunesta - grade: A-

Bit of an aftertaste, but virtually no pill hangover. The only downside is that as it's not a narcotic; it doesn't put me down like an elephant, so sometimes my anxiety breaks the surface in spite of it and I wake up after five hours. I can't blame the drug for that, though.

Ciyesta

lunesta made my mouth taste like metal until about 4 pm the next day. it was disgusting. but not everyone gets that.

I do, yeah. The metal taste does linger a bit. But if you're been going without decent sleep, I find it's easy to value being rested over being able to enjoy lunch.

lunesta didn't do all that much for me sleep-wise either, and left me pretty groggy.

ambien, for all its weirdness, seems to be the best.

Can someone post a drudge siren if someone recommends a homeopathic thing on here?

I didn't actually really know what homeopathy was until I read the wikipedia article about it a few weeks ago! I thought it was "folk medicine".

homeompathy is pretty batshit really.

I'd rather have a fucking needle shoved in a fucking chakra. Er, maybe not

Stuff they give you in rehab edition!

Trazadone: B- Not terribly effective but no next-day grog.

Seroquel: A- will knock you right the fuck out but don't take too much.

Whatever happened to just straight up Diazepam? It got you all light and happy and the sleeping was golden.

i know that some people on this thread take daily antidepressants. isn't it a bad idea to pile sleeping pills on top of this?

maybe that is up for their doctor to decide?

12 beers

if only they made 12 beers in one easy pill

yo bell_labs, i have no idea about this stuff! from your answer i take it that doctors DO sometimes prescribe a combination of sleeping pills and antidepressants?

well if you have no idea about this stuff maybe you should refrain from making dickish comments.

tracer_hand, i take it from your answers that people DO sometimes act in ways that are both callous and ill-informed?

Boots' Sleep Ease tablets B-

Effective, but give me weird dreams and grogginess in the morning.

how is that dickish?

The dickish is pretty good, thanks.

Bringing up someone else's degree of medication is a pretty cuntish move to make, IMO.

^ expert on cunty moves

http://www.wtfcostumes.com/costumes/vagina_costume.jpg
^ this guy too

lol jon's butthurt cuz i defriended him on facebook.

no I'm butt hurt that you posted nasty personal shit about me on ilx.

But that's what friends are for dude!

you are a lunatic.

a killfiled lunatic!

I miss all the fun.

i may not be banned but when i tried to post last week jon just deleted it. I expect this post won't last long either.

-- ian, Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:59 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/whambulance.jpg

People's ratings and anecdotal experience of prescribed medicines are at www.askapatient.com.

Comments on the habit-forming ones are LOL ("VICODIN IS GREAT A++++. Cons: addictive, hard to get").

My sleep aid ratings:

Restoril (temazepam): A
Ambien 10mg: A-
Any allergy medicine: B
Herbal tea/banana/candle/yoga: A+

Homeopathy is for quacks.

linds, if you want, look up CBT which is less about the psychoanalytic "picking at scars" (which i will totally rep for but i understand is not for everyone) and more about real-life pragmatic strategies for dealing with anxiety (strategies that mean i havent had to be on meds since high school), plus as HOOS says if you find a psychiatrist they will prescribe things

ok max i will ask my doc about a CBT referral - that sounds like it could help.

yeah i dont know if its totally a cure-all or if it works for everyone but it def worked for me, not that i never get anxious anymore, but im way better at taking control of it and not getting into the "bad places"--even if the doc doesnt work out i recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-Handbook-David-Burns/dp/0452281326

you will feel like a tool buying it and reading it but it helped me a lot a lot.

and hopefully doing any of that will help w/ insomnia!

biking 12 miles, eating dumont mac & cheese and smoking weed = ZZzZ

I shd really look into CBT for my anxiety.

cock and ball torture??

cognitive behaviour therapy. Self-talk, in a nutshell.

biking 12 miles, eating dumont mac & cheese and smoking weed = ZZzZ

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:53 (15 hours ago) Link

i am awake

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 05:38 (14 hours ago) Link

^^do not trust this man!!

there is no grade high enough for ambien

also serious question: can you just go ask a doctor for a particular brand? its still weird to me to see meds commericals on tv. its all a big mystery downunder and you take what you are given.

-- sunny successor, Monday, March 3, 2008 7:39 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

For sure you can do this. I did this a couple months ago after I had finished the 20 or so sample packs of Lunesta a friend mailed me. I liked it, so like the commercial told me to do, I went to my doctor for more and said "hey I would like to ask you about if Lunesta is right for me" and she asked me some questions and I believe I gave the right answers because I got a prescription.

The friend who mailed them to me said she couldn't hang with them because they were giving her intense nightmares, and I was all looking forward to maybe experiencing an intense nightmare for shits and giggles the first time I tried one. I didn't get a nightmare though, just perfect sleep. They work great for me and I really like them, but I've never taken any other sleep aids ever so I can't compare them to Ambien or anything.

^^do not trust this man!!

-- deeznuts, Sunday, May 4, 2008 3:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

I was waiting for booty call

lunesta leaves a disgusting aftertaste the next day.

i took an extra half an ambien last night because my neighbor was blasting her stereo and it made me do weird things apparently :(

I want to be put down like an elephant, I am a student and my body clock is basically fucked. I wanted something that's gonna make me want to sleep and not roll over and listen to my iPod until 6am, and then sleep in until 4!

IAN IN A LAB COAT

i tried melatonin last night. it took awhile to fall asleep but i slept through the night until my cat woke me up at 7. then i slept more, and couldn't get up to my alarm, and feel groggy as hell and very tired. so i'd say C- for work night, but will try it again on the weekend when i can sleep in.

Lindsay, take a half pill -- those pills are way overdoses

<i>One woman woke up with a paintbrush in her hand, having painted her front door in her sleep. People have set fire to their kitchens while trying to cook, cursed their bosses on the phone and crashed their cars into trees -- all in a sleeping-pill-induced haze and with no memory afterward.

A flurry of such cases prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year to require that Ambien, Lunesta and other "sedative-hypnotic" drugs carry strong warnings. But that scarcely dampened enthusiasm. U.S. sleep-aid prescriptions grew 10% last year, according to IMS Health, thanks in part to generic Ambien.</i>

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121001247529168149.html

IAN IN A LAB COAT

sung to the tune of mirror in the bathroom

I took a whole melatonin last night and was woken up too early by hammering which soon became soothing and I overslept

i slept a lot this weekend

friday night i was feeling so so tired and anxious. i took half a melatonin and slept from midniteish - 11:30. then i went back to sleep until 5 pm. i felt so sluggish and awful.

saturday night i slept about 8 hours uninterupped.
last night 8 hours again, no waking up (but with ambien).
i really wanted to keep sleeping this morning. but i feel like a human being again. maybe the melatonin did reset my system?

it is so, so nice to not feel like a zombie.

i also had so many crazy long and drawn out dreams full of intrigue and plot twists. which is part of why i couldn't get out of bed this morning. i just kept hitting snooze and going directly back into the dream.

bell labs i cant tell if you are saying the melatonin is a good thing or a bad thing or if you are ambivalent

uhm i think a good thing, but i wouldn't use it more than once every couple of weeks if i really neeeed it because sleeping until 5 pm feels pretty awful.

there is definitely a hangover and i wouldn't do it on a work day.

i guess i really dont get melatonin cuz i was under the impression it had to build up over period of days/weeks in ones system before it was really effective, what you are describing sounds like more a of a knockout punch which seems kind of not worth it

One woman woke up with a paintbrush in her hand, having painted her front door in her sleep.
i need to start taking ambien. i have a whole house to paint.

melatonin doesn't have that effect on me at all -- usually makes me slightly sleepy and no hangover

alright so i dont know what the ride will be like but im gettin on the bus asap

but bell you haven't been sleeping hardly at all for quite awhile right? that might be why the melatonin had that particular effect on you.

Getting the dosage right on melatonin is U+K. For me 1mg = yawn, 2mg = sleep, 3+ mg=SLEEP/crazy dreams/hangover

god i'm trying to remember what my crazy dreams were about...it started with some kind of nymph woman giving me a PROPHECY and later ended up as some elaborate obstacle course in a desert land.

but yeah it seems like melatonin = different for everyone?

after a week of shit/little sleep i finally got a total of about 9 hrs last night (with only one wake up) AND i dreamed i found who the pinefox really is. it was like a great revelation of truth.

i just had a hot cup of black tea! at 1am! WHAT AM I DOING WRONG

dude nooo!
i have cut out all caffeine besides one cup of green tea in the morning.

I'm in college and it's finals week, which means an adderall when I get up and a sominex when I'm ready for bed. lol white collar college drugs

so buzzed ON TEA oh well.

my doctor has signed me up for a sleep study! what should i expect from this? how am i going to fall asleep in a laboratory when i can't even fall asleep in my own bed?

as long as yr getting paid, dont worry about it

i'm not getting paid

Kalms: D

tell me more about this sleep study

i don't know anything about it! i am going for a consultation to determine if i need an "overnight visit"

is this some kind of personalized non-experimental sleep study? because otherwise YOU ARE A TOOL DEMAND MONEY

i don't know. i think it is personalized. my doctor referred me, it is covered by my insurance but i pay a co-pay.

My doctor gave me some Lunesta samples and I took the first one last night. Pretty impressed, good sleep, no grogginess. Just that nasty metallic taste. It faded though, after I ate breakfast and drank a lot of water.

I'm generally trying to trim my pill regime but I don't sleep well. Anxiety keeps me tossing and turning long after I turn in. And I wake up in the night often just to toss and turn some more. I only woke up once last night and was able to go right back to sleep.

Hopefully this will help me be less irritable and depressed.

I tried everything. I have insomnia so bad that ambien doesn't work for me. I use Seroquel. It works like a charm. Only problem is it costs $300 a month, you have to see a psychiatrist and basically claim to be schizo or worse to get it.

Trazodone 9

I just got a prescription for Seroquel. I'm pretty nervous about it, since the last time I was on an antipsychotic it kind of ruined my life (Risperdal for severe social anxiety; made me fat, twitchy and neutered).