Side Effects Of Sleeping Pills

Unfortunately sleeping pills do the same things to us during the day
that we want them to at night. That is they impair our consciousness,
judgment, memory and intelligence. Ironically, insomniacs think
sleeping pills make them sleep better, when they actually make them
feel worse. This is because of the misperception that sleeping pills
are supposed to help us sleep better. In comparison studies against
placebo, patients receiving placebo did better than those with
sleeping pills, although those with the sleeping pills erroneously
believed they were doing better.
Perhaps the most shocking condemnation of sleeping pills is that they
do not improve daytime function or performance. Since the definition
for 'Quality of Sleep' is that amount which allows us to operate at
optimum levels of energy, sleeping pills are not the answer.
Pharmaceutical companies concentrate on reducing the side effects of
sleeping pills, not on improving daytime performance. Those who take
these pills however, are misguided into believing they will receive a
daytime benefit. The chance is very high that they will end up
becoming chronic sleeping pill users. New commercials for sleeping
pills now caution that, "Almost everyone has some risk of becoming
dependant on sleep medication."
While defending the use of sleeping pills, pharmaceutical companies
counter that most of the people who use sleeping pills take them for a
few weeks or less. What they don't say, however is that the vast
majority of all prescriptions are repeat prescriptions to chronic
insomniacs.
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On 17 May 2007 04:38:58 -0700, sandra holden <qmqrscxmynad@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Unfortunately sleeping pills do the same things to us during the day
>that we want them to at night.


What was the question?



Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Dana© wrote:
> On 17 May 2007 04:38:58 -0700, sandra holden <qmqrscxmynad@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately sleeping pills do the same things to us during the day
>> that we want them to at night.
>
>
> What was the question?

She wants to know, "Will you buy what I'm peddling on my web site?"

I'd wager that what she's peddling doesn't contain anything
better than what you can get for free from William Dement, one of
the world's top sleep researchers at Stanford University's sleep lab:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/howto.html

FurPaw
--
My family values don't involve depleted uranium.

To reply, unleash the dog.

On May 17, 7:35 am, Dana© <AneeB...@ownmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 May 2007 04:38:58 -0700, sandra holden <qmqrscxmy...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately sleeping pills do the same things to us during the day
> >that we want them to at night.
>
> What was the question?


LOL!

Lunsta works for me, although it gives me a metallic taste in my
mouth. When my insomnia gets bad enough, it's worth the icky taste.
I've tried something called Roxerem (I think that's what it's called)
and I ended up staying up later at night than usual. Ambien (the
short term and time release) did not work for me either.

To me, sleeping pill side effects are a minor inconvenience after a
few nights of 2-3 hours of sleep. Now that I"m getting older, going
through meno, just fought thyroid cancer AND have a budding adolescent
daughter (the last one will cause insomnia without all the others!!!),
I've stopped trying to figure out why I have insomnia. And for what
it's worth to the OP, I've been anti meds for most of my adult years.
I've recently succumbed to meds and in my opinion; I've earned the
right :-)

I wonder if somewhere in here, I answered the op's question :-)

~Always Sleepy~

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On May 17, 7:35 am, Dana© <AneeB...@ownmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 May 2007 04:38:58 -0700, sandra holden <qmqrscxmy...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately sleeping pills do the same things to us during the day
> >that we want them to at night.
>
> What was the question?


LOL!

Lunsta works for me, although it gives me a metallic taste in my
mouth. When my insomnia gets bad enough, it's worth the icky taste.
I've tried something called Roxerem (I think that's what it's called)
and I ended up staying up later at night than usual. Ambien (the
short term and time release) did not work for me either.

To me, sleeping pill side effects are a minor inconvenience after a
few nights of 2-3 hours of sleep.

I'm completely with you on this one. So far, expect for once-twice (when I
took the sleeping med very late into the night), I haven't even noticed
side-effects. Only the looked-for one: sleep.

Cathy

Now that I"m getting older, going
through meno, just fought thyroid cancer AND have a budding adolescent
daughter (the last one will cause insomnia without all the others!!!),
I've stopped trying to figure out why I have insomnia. And for what
it's worth to the OP, I've been anti meds for most of my adult years.
I've recently succumbed to meds and in my opinion; I've earned the
right :-)

I wonder if somewhere in here, I answered the op's question :-)

~Always Sleepy~

"Dana©" <AneeBear@ownmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 17 May 2007 04:38:58 -0700, sandra holden <qmqrscxmynad@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Unfortunately sleeping pills do the same things to us during the day
>>that we want them to at night.
>
>
> What was the question?
>
>

The question was "Will you click the link to the blog at the bottom of this
post so my page rank will increase?"