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Sleeping tablets
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Which ones are best? I am currently taking temazapane but they don't make me sleep for a few hours and I just wake up at 5am. I wasn't convinced that they are actually a sleeping tablet but I just googled it and apparently they are. I was on Zopiclone before but that was whilst on a ward, I'm not sure why I was given different ones to take at home, although the Zopiclone wasn't that great either. Not sleeping is seeming really unhealthy as I just end up walking about the streets of London at night by myself, walking onto the bridges contemplating jumping into the Thames. I was sectioned recently but got unsectioned and discharged myself against the consultants advice on Monday and I'm a bit scarred to be too honest to my doctor incase I get sectioned again. But I want to go get the sleeping tablets thing sorted, I just wondered which are best to take?
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If you're talking these kind of thing you will need to go back to your doctor because they are all on prescription only, it might also be worth going back because it sounds like things aren't working out as well as they might be.
The only other thing that comes to mind (other than the usual Nytol etc) would be one of the antihistamines people take for hayfever, they make some people really sleepy as a side effect. Piriton is the usual one.
What has happened to make things so awful for you lately??
I wish I could help
Wow. I didnt know this. My mums been on zopiclone for at least two and a half - three months
They are used longer term for some people, having been reviewed after short term use. As long as they are being prescribed to her properly then don't fret.
Techincally it is a muscle relaxant, and yes they will completely knock you out if you take a high enough dose. However they come with a massive list of side effects - horrible addiction being the most obvious.
I've found Zopiclone useful, there isnt much hangover with it unlike with the benzos.
There is another tablet similar to zopiclone called zolpidem, which i preferred to zopiclone; it got me asleep and kept me asleep which was excellent!
Temazepam is a benzodiazepine, it's possible that if you went back to the doctors they would prescribe you a different tablet, but is also a benzodiazepine, which could work more effectively for you. I believe you shouldn't take benzos for longer than a set amount of time, because they're so horribly addictive and the withdrawal is evil if you develop a habit, however, i think that is preferable to wanting to jump of bridges.
I hope you feel better soon. I'd urge you to go back to the doctors. Perhaps you could even leave the tranquilisers and sleeping pills and instead go on a sedating anti depressant such as mirtazepine (zispin) that always knocked me out and i suffer horribly from insomnia.
Zolpidem is Stilnoct isnt it? If so I found it next to useless, but then we're all different.
I'd agree with you about mirtazepine (is that how its spelt?) I've had that in the past too and it works well, although can lead to very strange dreams.
I was on mitazapine in the past and it didn't work out for me as I was sleeping an average of 20 hours per day on it and was in my final year of university at the time which was impractical and it didn't help my mood (infact, as I struggled to keep up with my work whilst on it more than ever I found that rather depressing in itself).
I'm seeing my consultant next week so maybe she'll have a bright idea (or will put me back in hospital :grump: )
Thanks for your replies guys
Not only that, shes got prescription meds so shouldnt take anything that could potentially affect her more(even though its highly unlikely).
Its quite scary that your gp has doubled the Temaz, considering you're feeling how you are.
they won't.
but yeah it is highly addictive and when you come off it, you're guaranteed to suffer with insomnia for a while.
try it. - don't really. it will keep you asleep not knock you out.
if you toook a large enough dose it could slow your heart and put you in a coma but it won't knock you out to sleep.
I've only a very limited experience with temaz, but it certainly seemed to knock me out, however it left me with a really nasty hangover, and as you rightly point out it has a really serious addiction risk.
as for whoever said a load of temaze's won't knock you out.. it varies greatly from person to person with benzos but it will certainly knock plenty of people out
On the discussion about what happens if you take a lot/ too many my research seems to state that an overdose would just put you in a coma for a few days but is very unlikely to kill you.
... and unlikely to knock you out to sleep. temazepam has little effect on REM.
get your GP to give you a different drug.