I have the worse insomnia ever. I used to take like 6 benadryl a night. It worked and for awhile I stopped. Mostly because I smoked alot of weed for awhile. Anyway, I don’t smoke anymore and I was prescribed Seroquel 400mg. If you ever been on it you know it practically puts you in a mild coma. LOL! My prescription ran out and I can’t afford more right now. I took 4 benadryl’s and it’s now 6am and I am still wide awake.

I need sleep. I am thinking of a combination of DIPHENHYDRAMINE, Melatonin and valarian root. How does that sound? If not does anyone know a quicker way to fall asleep? I am addicted to my sleeping pills I know but right now I can not sleep and I need to sleep. Any help?

if you an addiction kind of medication you have to take lifelong try with yoga hypnotherapy

Anxiety is affecting my sleep like crazy, I may have got two nights of good sleep in the past week but I slept for like 12 hours to catch up, what are some good meds for this problem? Other than stress relievers and alcohol?

first, you have to be tired when u lay down each night. By this I mean, same time each night go to
sleep. wind down.you can’t fool mother nature.Believe me I know.
I also take one tylenol arthritic aspirn (650 mg) and I fall to sleep for 6-7 hrs minimum, but when I wake up, I’m out of there and ready to go..also during the day, if I feel a little sleepy, I try to pull over for a 5-10
minute nap. One nap a day please..

what are some brands that i can buy at a drugstore, & how much are they??
thanks
Melatonin is great. It is a natural chemical in your brain so it is safe. Not sure about the cost but it is not too bad.

just wondering

I guess my biggest question would be WHY would you want to? They don’t make you feel good. They make you sleepy and even groggy the next day! Just go to bed, turn off everything around you, close your eyes and fall asleep. A minor doesn’t need sleep aids…and if you do, have your parents take you to your doctor. There could be something wrong with why you are having a hard time falling asleep. Nighty Night!

I can’t sleep at night, when I finally get to sleep (usually around 6 or 7 am) I wake up anywhere from 3-6 times. I dont wake up til about 3:30 in the afternoon and its a pain in the butt because I can’t get anything done during the day. does anyone know any really good over the counter sleeping pills? and i mean they have to be like extra extra strength because nothing i have tried so far has made me tired.

Try the natural sleep aid Melatonin … wonderful product. I’ve used it many times when traveling to different time zones to get in sync with the local time.

I have never tried unisom, simply sleep, or some other sleep aids but was curious as to how well or if they even worked at all. Ambien and those other perscriptions are exspensive so I was thinking of other options.

There are many reasons that you cannot fall asleep. The main reason is there is something in your mind keeps you awake.
Medications only helps to certain point. When you cannot fall asleep. Right down what is in mind. That’s the thing which bothers you. Face the problem and solve it is the only way to deal with. Medication does not help that much.

I am taking a 14 hour flight and I always feel pretty nervous on planes and cannot fall asleep… I am looking for something that will really knock me out, but that is over the counter… any suggestions?
Yeah Melatonin and Tylenol PM/Benadryl seem to be two popular answers, any one compared the two?
Also, I’ve seen other answers as Valerian Extract… with that and Melatonin being natural remedies, would it be a bad idea to take both of them? Could that have bad side effects?

Melatonin

Is there a side effect of using over the counter sleep aids long term

Yes. They are VERY addictive and can make you drowsy OR very anxious during the day. Don’t do it! Call your physician instead.

I was wondering this cause i’m going to be starting a new job on friday where i have to be at work before 4am and i’m the type of person who is usually just starting to go to sleep at that time and i was wondering what was the best over the counter sleep aid to get one to fall asleep faster

None of the medicines for artificially inducing sleep are safe or even good for health. Sleep is controlled partially by the eyes and partially by the penial and other glands in the head, but there is also sensing system probably in the skin or sense of feeling to know the night and day and control sleep. Otherwise, the people who are unfortunate as not to have the capacity to see would not have been sleeping. All medicine aids for inducing sleep functions above the blood brain barrier (i.e. the Brahmarandhra in the wisdom of Vedas and Upanishads). This area and beyond are the realm of pure Ether in the body. Any substance which fundamentally works in the Head, sleep, memory, mind, thought, brain or intelligence which are not body parts, should be a derivative of Ether or Ether itself. Ether is the most minutest particle of any substance which is conceivable by human mind. These can be found in the lab in the form of amines, hydrocarbons, neurons, and beyond nano particles. Since these have been named with various names, the realization do not dawn that they are one and the same in various forms. Ether manifesting in different forms. Take for example Melatonin as someone has pointed as the best. Its chemical name is N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine. It is an amine, it has methyl-oxygen and acetyle. Methyl, Ethyl and Acetyle or in gas forms Methane Ethane and Ascetyline are the Trimurthi or triumvariate form of Ether. Basically they exist in these three forms apart from the two forms or duality as in Hydrogen and Carbon forming Hydrocarbons. Then comes the single form and further the Zero form if we go into the mathematical equivalence.

So when Melatonin is used, it directly interfere with the capacity of the eyes to differentiate between the day and night and sensing them with accuracy and deceive the penial gland into inducing sleep. In fact the natural process is interrupted and a damage is caused to the penial gland in the long run. Now penial glands are important glands for the development of children from age one to age 14. If you look at that information, you will find that a strong penial gland in the parents have a great bearing on the child going to be born to them in terms of the development of the child. If that is the case, the chances of an autistic child to such parent is a high percentage of chances. You can see that the amines or the medicines that are produced from alkaloids and amines which ending the IN and INE normally clasiffied as, are usually derivatives of psychotropic substances like opium, cannabis, or several kinds of mushrooms charged by the thunderstorms with abundants of Ether which affects the mind and thoughts and brain and creates hallucinations and delusion in the same way as lesser spirits, impure ether like alchohol creates in the head and benumbs the brain, and again as well as the physical presence of Ether in the form of spirits and Ghosts are similar to the mental hallucinations which these substances are capable of creating.

When we interfere with the fire in the body, the digestion goes out, there is problems with liver, splean, circulation of blood and therefore heart and ultimately manifests int he skin also. When you interfere with the water in the body, the shape of the body like obesity, thinness, strength of the body, the emotions, the perspiration, the excretion, the urination etc.etc. are affected. When we interfere with the element Air in the body, the movements of the body, the actions, the joints, the dryness, the lungs, the respiration and ailments leading to paralysis are manifested. When you interfere with Ether, the mind the brain, the memory, the awareness or consciousness, the intelligence, and all that is connected with metaphysical other than the physical body are affected. The powers are effected, the powers of sleeping, the powers of seeing, the powers of thinking, the powers of hearing, the powers of memorizing etc.etc. The fundamental truth to remember is that "Never to interfere with the natural course of the body and mind". We are in this world to create progeny and ensure continuity of the universe. Our actions whatever we do against natural laws are detrimental to the offsprings we have and their sufferings would be directly proportional to our actions as many ailments do have bearing on what kind of efficient and disease free organs and body we possessed before conceiving the child. It may be called the DNA the genetic factor of whatever. But the fundamental truth remains.

PS: I do not say melatonin is bad but its processing is wrong. You cannot expect a "B (-) group blood to be assimilated by a "A+". Similarly the improperly processed Ether cannot assimilate with naturally processed Ether in the body. Since Ether is at the mind level the reactions will be of Pscychic nature or at the mind level. Since mind is not visible to operate upon, one can only surmise and correct. Every doctor is not good at it and the net result would be ……….derrangements at that level. You can call it anxiety syndrome, panic attacks. etc.et.c.etc.

anything with this drug seems to give me restless leg syndrome.i know theres natural sleep aids and other things you can to do to help sleep.im just looking for a really good over the counter sleep aid.

The most effective over the counter insomnia drug is called Doxylamine succinate. There has been studies that show this drug works as well as, or better than, several prescription drugs, including some barbiturates.This drug is marketed as Unisom usually, and you can also buy a generic store brand that usually have a name like ‘nighttime sleep aid’ or something to that effect, It doesn’t cost much either. You need to check the back of the box because Unisom also makes a sleep aid product that uses Diphenhydramine as the active ingredient. You need to look for Doxylamine.

Another option is to try the motion sickness drug called Dimenhydrinate, which is sold under the brand name Dramamine. That stuff is more expensive than the others, and I am not all that impressed with the results.

Those two, and diphenhydramine, are all antihistamines. and you could have the same problem you had with diphenhydramine when using those other drugs. Only one way to find out which one is most effective, and that is to try them and see what happens.

There are worthless herbal medicines such as Valerian root and Kava kava, and you could also try melatonin, but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for those to work.