Works for me.
Posted on 02/09/2006 10:52:19 AM PST by Anne_Conn
It was recently announced on the news that Americans are turning in ever greater numbers to the use of prescription sleep aids, despite the decided drawbacks to their long term dosage.
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I always found that a night cap works best. Much better than a pill.
I sleep about 3 to 4 hours per night. I cope with it.
Ted Kennedy agrees with you :P
I use Tylenol PM every once in awhile. Usually, I just don't get a lot of sleep. I've learned to adjust. I can see how people could easily get addicted to those prescriptions. I'll stay away from them!
Turn off the tv, cell phone and computer and you will sleep.
My wife ( she is a psycholgist ) insists that children cannot sleep if you let them watch too much tv or other stimuli before bedtime so we donot allow our kids to do it. Yet she complains about insomnia every stinkning day as she watches tv until 12-1 in the morning. After months of arguing with her ( I am not a professional so my opinion didnot count ) about reading or just going to bed and trying to sleep and being told I am a goon, I purposely and covertly sabotaged the satellite one day before she got home and she had to go to bed around without tv. Would you know that she fell asleep within 20 minutes and slept from 10:30p - about 6am.
Of course when I came clean, her reasoning was she was just overly tired from days without rest. Someday I will choke her to sleep.
When I can't sleep I just get up and do something. And prescription drugs aren't what I do.
Good one. But I fear your wife is in denial.
Valium was a bit better but way too long-lasting.
Methaqualone! wow, talk about a drug that was too good. Qualludes were pulled from the market because folks liked them so darn much. Party like crazy, gulp a Lude at 4 AM, sleep till noon and no hangover. Too bad - gone for good.
Xanax was a big leap from Valium but that retrograde amnesia hits a lot of folks including me so I stopped doing those on red eyes to Europe.
But probably the greatest leap of all has occurred with Ambien. Short half-life, very little euphoria (can't have that!), and even fewer side-effects such make this a winner.
So yes folks may be taking more "sleep-aids" but it may have to do with the fact that the drugs do not have the stigma or down-side from previous generations of agents.
"I sleep about 3 to 4 hours per night. I cope with it."
Same here. Will not take pills to help me sleep. Ain't gonna do it.
Works for me.
Those wakefull late night and early morning hours are my most productive hours. My wife is trying to talk me into becoming a writer because I write a lot of stuff at those times.
Toss 200 lb sheets of 1 3/8" industrial partical board for a few hours . No drugs needed.
adult beverages, bikram yoga and kombucha tea puts me to sleep
Theraputic grade Lavender and Tangerine oil will make you sleep like a baby. Smells good too.
I am a kook and I like it that way.
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