What are the side effects of sleeping pills?

Answer 1

SLEEPING PILLS AND THE SIDE EFFECTS -

I have been on ATIVAN for the past 15 years and I have become addicted to it and i can not sleep even for a couple of hourse with out it. If you do not cross the Doctor's prescribed dosage there will not be much of a side effect.

The general Information on side effects of Sleeping bills are -

Long-term studies on the effects of sleeping pills don’t show encouraging results. In fact the one major conclusion from all studies is that insomniacs are better off without sleeping pills than they are with them. One study alone that surveyed over 2,000,000 people, found that chronic use of sleeping pills are as deadly as cigarette smoking.

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. -

Answer 2

I have tried several different prescription sleeping medications
and one of them (Sonata) gave me weird hallucinations too! [So you are not alone.] The walls of my bedroom looked like they were melting. very strange. I only took that one time. Too creepy for me. I tried Lunesta and it gave me the weirdest metallic taste in my mouth that lasted all the next day. So that didn't work. But now I'm taking Ambien and (just like the commercials say) it "works like a dream". The only side effect I have with Ambien is that if I don't go to bed right away (or if I happen to get up in the middle of the night) and the pill starts doing it's thing but I don't get in bed like I'm supposed to... then I may end up doing odd things during the night and have no memory of them the next morning. That's why you need to go right to bed after you take the Ambien. I have awoken (just a few times) to find notes I had written or things I had done around the house during the night but had no recollection of having done them. Spooky. But that's really a rare occurrence.

In general, with sleeping pills, some people might feel groggy the next day (but I never do).

Answer 3

I've been taking Ambian every night for years, no sidfe efffects

Answer 4

You become pregnant and not know who the father is. AND, if you a guy, this really not look good.

Answer 5

over a period of time u'l start spending sleepless nights!!!

Answer 6

Sometimes they can cause nightmares or wierd dreams.

Answer 7

insomnia