What do you take to help you sleep, and side effects

[nickbits]

Sometimes Benadryl but I always take my levetiracetam before bed and that makes me pretty tired after 30min

 

[disappoint]

3mg Melatonin + 25mg Dimenhydrinate

Brings on drowsiness in about 1/2-3/4 hour.
No groggy feeling when waking up.

If I stay up longer than about an hour after taking, the drowsiness seems to pass.

Diphenhydramine? That's Benadryl.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've always had trouble falling aleep early, I'm naturally at my peak energy past 10pm or so. So when I have to start work at like 7 or 8 and should be going to bed at 10, it just does not happen.

I love working night shifts though, because it's more natural for me. I'm awake all night, I only start to get tired around 5-6, my shift ends at 7,I go home, go to bed and fall asleep right away then I can wakeup naturally without an alarm.

But then trying to get out of the night shift routine is very hard. So like the first day shift, it always takes me several hours to fall asleep the night before. I usually go to bed at 12 or 1 knowing even if I go to bed earlier I wont fall asleep till 2-3 anyway.

I wish I could just work nights all the time, would solve that problem. :biggrin:

 

[amdhunter]

Tissue and porn.
Side effect is a good nights sleep.

 

[nageov3t]

benadryl when I get desperate.

no real side-effects, but I only take it when I can afford to devote 8-10 hours to sleeping.

 

[Blain]

Diphenhydramine? That's Benadryl.

I didn't write Diphenhydramine, I wrote Dimenhydrinate.

 

[sixone]

I didn't write Diphenhydramine, I wrote Dimenhydrinate.

aka Dramamine

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

I forget the sleeping med I took but it'd have me KO'd in 15min. I'd like another prescription.

I find I have a lot of restlessness when trying to sleep. Then I was diagnosed with high blood pressure & restlessness is one of the effects of high BP.
However, now that I'm unemployed, I pretty much stay up & work on stuff (YouTube stuff) until I'm tired enough to sleep. My sleeping pattern is fucked.
I actually had an OK sleeping pattern all last week. Then my friend decided he wanted to go to the club 3 days in a row. There went my kind of normal sleeping pattern.

 

[waggy]

At bedtime, my mind wanders a lot, and it is not unusual for me to lie awake for an hour trying to relax and fall asleep. So when I need a good solid night's sleep and a poke is not in teh cards, I'll sometimes take either half a benadryl tablet, or a melatonin.

I'm the same way. it takes me an hour or so to fall asleep. even then i wake up 3-4 hours latte rand repeat it.

 

[OverVolt]

I'm the same way. it takes me an hour or so to fall asleep. even then i wake up 3-4 hours latte rand repeat it.

This is a pretty normal sleep pattern. I always feel really well rested when I sleep like this.

 

[kami333]

I sometimes take cyclobenzaprine (prescribed for muscle spasms), knocks me out in ~20min and I'll sleep for a good 12hours. Makes my mind really slow the next day so I try to avoid it.

 

[BUTCH1]

Klonopin, never fails. I would rather take 3-4 tokes of a bowl but that would have me unemployed at this point, my company is crazy about drug testing on a regular basis..

 

[Lanyap]

Alteril
L-Tryptophan and Melatonin
http://www.amazon.com/Alteril-Sleep-...pr_product_top

 

[yhelothar]

Carbs. Rice is good even though I guess it kills you now.

This. Carbs raises your blood's tryptophan levels, the precursor to serotonin, which promotes rest and relaxation. It's why antidepressants have drowsiness as a side effect.

 

[Bateluer]

I pop a melatonin a few nights a week. Its effectiveness varies though, depending on other factors. Usually end up waking up after about 3 or 4 hours because of allergy symptoms. And then I realize I have to pee, so I have to do that before I even attempt to sleep again. It this occurs after the sun rises, I might as well get up for the day.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Elavil helps a lot with sleeping for me. Although I started getting some problems again when I went from 75mg to 50mg : ( I take it for migraine prevention though; making me sleepy at night is a bonus.

I've had ambien before and I would forget the last two to three hours that I was awake so it was not too much fun. Tylenol PM is what I was using before doctors gave me ambien (couldn't take being both sleep deprived and having a two month long migraine).

 

[soccerballtux]

Melatonin, the 1mg versions.
Don't get the 1ug (micro-gram) versions those are a joke, they kick in about 10 minutes after taking one and make you sleepy for about 4 minutes, just enough to get comfy but not long enough to get to sleep. In addition, if you don't fall asleep in that window, you can't fall asleep for the next hour or two. In my experience.

I find I feel very rested after 7.5-8 hours of sleep with a melatonin dose. If I don't take one, I need 8.5-9 hours of sleep before I feel rested.