Sleeping tablets.

[hjones]

hi all,

i am having great trouble sleeping. tried many 'natural' ways to help - lavender in my room, all over my bed, reading, warm baths and drinks etc.

i have decided to try a herbal sleeping tablet. the one i have chosen is call naturasleep.

does anyone have experience with using herbal sleeping tablets? i have taken 2 tonight but dont seem to feel any effect. its says you can take up to 3 but i am a bit wary incase they all kick in at once.

i am wondering do they make you sleepy and go to sleep or do they help you stay asleep once you have dropped off?

many thanks

holly

xx

[nanatre]

Hiya, I have not heard of these. Please let us know how you get on. x

[hjones]

i bought them from wilkinson's not very expensive, less than £4 for 50 of them and up to now no effect what so ever! they dont smell very nice but you cant taste them luckly! i wanted to get nytol but they didnt have any in stock but think i will have to get some different ones tomorrow as i am still awake! hopefully when i finally manage to sleep tonight they will help me stay asleep

x

[julieevh]

any sort of sleeping tablet makes me feel sick - pity really as I could do with them some days!

Julie xx

[hjones in reply to julieevh]

Hi julie, you have commented on a number of my blogs and questions and i just wanted to say how kind and friendly i find all of your responses. i really appreciate your comments and suggestions and i always have a little smile on my face when i get an email saying that you have commented so thank you

xx

[hjones]

i am feeling sick julie, maybe its from the sleeping tablets

holly

xx

[Hidden]

I personally have never found herbal sleeping tablets work. I find that taking Amitriptyline (50mg) in the afternoon makes me sleep better at night. I have to take my tablet in the afternoon because by bedtime I am sleepy. If I take it at night time then I am zonked out for most of the following day so it has to be timed,

[Tattoo6]

Hello Holly,

I have taken some herbal sleeping tablets such as Quiet life sleeping tablets, but it didn't work for me. It got very frustrating when I was in pain and couldn't sleep.....so I simply went to the doctor and he gave me some sleeping tablets.

I took them for a while but then came off them as I didn't wish to be reliant on them for sleeping, so right now I just work through it in the best way I can, it's hard I know but you WILL get there in the end - promise

Steph x

[nanny4 in reply to Tattoo6]

Hi there,I have tried lots of things but I have to say Amitrypyiline 100mg helped me for a while,but my pain was so bad every night,when my prescribed me pregabalin for my pain,I have found that they also give me at least 5 hours sleep continous,all I ever used to do was wake about 20 to 30 times a night,then I couldn't function for the day time.

I feel better than I have for a few years,I tried sleeping tablets from the doctors,but he only gave me them when I was dxd with breast cancer,they didn't work either.

Hope you find something that helps you real soon,take care Sandy.

[Pakslady]

My doctor ended up prescribing A sleeping tablet called zopiclone as I found Amitryptaline gave me heart palpitations. The only effect I found from the herbal tabs was vivid dreams and little or no extra sleep. On third night of trying woke up standing by bedroom wall trying to open a non existent door so filed them under bin and went to doc. They will only supply sleeping tabs these days in a very limited number, but I try to only use them once a week and find they do help.

Hope you find something that helps soon :))

Paks

[hjones]

Hi all,

well as for getting me to sleep they tablets didnt work but i did manage to have a solid 6 hours sleep which was amazing!

the only thing is that when i woke during the early hours my eyes and lips were slighty swollen so i took an antihistamine incase i was having a reaction to the sleeping tablets so im unsure as to if its the sleeping pills that helped me stay asleep or the antihistamine! either way i got a solid block of sleep so i am happy!

xxx

[pondminstrel]

hi,ask your doctor about phenergan tablets,half a tab works for me,plus they are non adictive so thats a plus.hugs xxx

[hjones in reply to pondminstrel]

thank you for that, i will ask. that was my main worry of non herbal was becoming addicted to them x

[pondminstrel]

hi,i took herbal tabs for ages,they didnt work but i took them every night thinking..ooh i will give them a chance to work ..just another day or two etc..but with phenergan tabs i started on one tab and could feel myself falling asleep and must admit i slept till late the next morning and felt a bit hangovery if you know what i mean,so i took half and it worked for me,had a good nights sleep,so consequently i could do more the next day resulting in me using more energy so didnt take one the next night,then i found my self thinking this is great i know that by taking phenergan i sleep so the desparate feeling of getting into bed with the thought of..i must sleep tonight..seems less urgent...knowing that help was there if i needed it and it was guarented to work..i hope you can understand my waffling on and my reasoning! lol xxxxx