Record Sales of Sleeping Pills Are Causing Worries

nyt ^ | February 7, 2006 | By STEPHANIE SAUL

[Sisku Hanne]

I have, and then discussed the issue with my doctor and followed his advice. That's why I take acetaminophen instead of ibuprophen or aspirin.

Acetaminophen, in this low dosage, is not a threat to the liver (especially since I am not a regular drinker). It is considered a well-tolerated drug with few drug interactions and less side effects than NSAIDs.

I also do not take it every day.

[Corinthian Warrior]

Trazodone - I have been on it since 2002. I wonder if there are any downsides to using it.

I use 50mg every night as a sleep aid. Anybody else? Any bad news ahead for me?

[Labyrinthos]

A hour with good book and two fingers of Chivas Regal on the rocks. You'll sleep like a baby.

Buy a DVD of "Room With a View" or "Chariots of Fire." You'll sleep like a corpse.

[Conservababe]

If one takes Tylenol PM for sleep and not for pain, you might as well just take plain old Benadryl. It is the same ingredient in Tylenol PM and much cheaper to buy generic.

[oyez]

Who's the most crazy? Those getting paid to tell people they are crazy or those people paying some else to tell them they are crazy.

I arrest my case.

[palmer]

I call my DH the "Orca", because his nighttime antics remind me of those nature videos of whales breaching the surface of the ocean.

You need to get rid of the water bed.

[hinckley buzzard]

Everything is getting better, why would people need sleep aids?

Beats me. I just turn on Coast to Coast at threshold volume...works like a charm every time, no side effects.

[DragonflyX]

Wow, I bet he appreciates that!

[Sisku Hanne]

I do sometimes take generic Benadryl. But generic Tylenol PM is cheaper and has the same mg. It's $2/50 vs. $3/20 at the Dollar General.

[Element187]

You want 'weird' dreams? Fall asleep with your electric blanket on high......LOL!! I have some wild memories....

i live in florida, we dont have electric blankets down here.

[najida]

You're sweet.

As awful as it sounds or seems, sometimes the only 'fix' is separate rooms.

[Element187]

I'm not a kook but my kook sister-in-law says that Melatonin has some bad LTerm side effects.

probably bad if you take it daily .. i only take them once a week or so depending if i need sleep for work the next day and cant sleep.

[stuartcr]

Must have.

[stuartcr]

Hope it works out for you.

[stuartcr]

I'm sure your liver thanks you.

[RightWhale]

Same here. One every three days would be about my max dose.

[Moonman62]

IMO, corrupt executives, bad managers, bad supervisors, etc. have turned the workplace into a hell hole. That is why people can't sleep at night. Job stress plus high blood pressure are the norm in today's corporate workplace. Having worked in Human Resources for 12 years, IMO, workers' comp cases and litigation stems from employees being pushed to the brink by bad corporate management. It's no surprise that people are turning to sleeping pills after working 12-hour days which include harrassment coupled with the demand to do more and more.

Whatever happened to work smarter, not harder? If leaders in government and corporations knew that wealth and a higher standard of living come from investment and innovation instead of working employees to death, the abuses you mention wouldn't happen.

What about the effect of the ever increasing cost and inefficiency of government for people to keep making more money? Does it help when the Federal Reserve causes a recession every time the private economy creates an abundance of jobs? And what's been the effect of a government that's done whatever possible to boost economic demand, even at the expense of investment over the past 70 years (the Reagan administration being the exception)?

[Aquinasfan]

My Missus was in renal failure for 6 months. They won't rule out the usage of OTC sleep aids + Ibuprofen as a possible cause.

Yikes!

[twigs]

Benadryl puts me under. It scares me, like if the house would catch on fire, etc. I find that a cup of camomile tea has me asleep by the time I've finished drinking it. Only problem is having to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. If I read--even a very good book--just before I turn out the light, it also puts me to sleep.

[twigs]

I had a nurse to warn me against taking melatonin years ago when it first came out. She says that your body manufactures it, and it you take it regularly, it will stop. She wasn't saying that no one should take it. She just thought that too many people were taking it without knowing more about it.