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Is everyone wide awake exactly 4 hrs after taking one?
If you take them too often do they stop working?

2007-11-09 21:52:34 · 18 answers · asked by Wunout O 1 in Health General Health Care Other - General Health Care

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A sedative is a substance that depresses the central nervous system (CNS), resulting in calmness, relaxation, reduction of anxiety, sleepiness, and slowed breathing, as well as slurred speech, staggering gait, poor judgment, and slow, uncertain reflexes. Sedatives may be referred to as tranquilizers,depressants;anxiolytics, soporifics, sleeping pills, downers, or sedative-hypnotics. They do have a overly- calming effect.


Using sedatives often can make you drug dependent, can cause daytime fatigue; thinking difficulties and risks of falling.


How do sleeping pills work?

Most sleeping pills are closely related to the drugs that are given for anxiety to help people feel calmer (sedatives). Drugs prescribed as sedatives will help you sleep if taken at night, while sleeping pills will sedate you if taken during the day. Generally speaking, the short-acting drugs are those that are prescribed as sleeping tablets, and the longer-acting are prescribed for anxiety.

Sleeping drugs are more likely to be effective in cases where the difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep (insomnia) is short-lived. They are less helpful when the insomnia has been going on for a long time. No sleeping pills should be used for long-term treatment

How can sleeping pills help?
Sleep medicines may provide fast relief of the symptoms of insomnia. They can help you break the cycle of poor sleep quality and daytime fatigue while you work on the problems that are causing your insomnia. Sleeping pills can also be helpful when you just have trouble now and then falling asleep. But they work best as a short-term treatment.

There are different types of sleeping pills. Talk to your doctor about your choices.

Reasons to take sleeping pills


You have sleepless nights once in a while.
You have made changes in your behavior and lifestyle and have treated any medical problems that are causing your insomnia, but they haven't helped.
Insomnia is increasing your risk of an accident.
Are there other reasons you might want to take sleeping pills?



Reasons not to take sleeping pills

You have not yet tried to make behavior and lifestyle changes or to treat any medical problems that may be causing your insomnia.
You are concerned about the side effects of sleeping pills.
You are concerned that you will grow to rely on the pills so much that you can't sleep without them


Recent studies also revealed link between sleeping pills and weight/inch gain. Sleeping pills cause patients to sleep longer than they would have without taking the medication. Thus, the drowsiness when waking up after taking sleeping pills and the sluggishness results in eating to gain energy.

2007-11-09 22:50:33 · answer #1 · answered by rosieC 7 · 3 0

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2016-12-25 15:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

How Do Sleeping Pills Work

2016-11-06 21:48:40 · answer #3 · answered by tummons 4 · 0 0

Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!

1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.

2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.

The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.

After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net

Ohhh..and Good Luck!

2014-09-17 11:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

I took 2 50mg of pills and a few hours later i was fine, then it hit me and i started to notice how.

My reflexes were shot, my left hand was sluggish and my right was just very slow. My vision got tired like my eyes were just relaying slower or something.

My typing was very very slow compared to how i type extremely fast and I was very word bad trying to sing along to a song. I made my a s sound more like aaayyyy.

While in this state i played a game of chess and noticed that I was horrid, but I was just slow and couldn t think ahead very well. But i did react the same to counter moves and carrying out things.

So as far as i can tell, sleeping pills make your motor functions, cognitive, and speech worse.

But it didn t really impair my logic or reasoning, just reflexes.

2016-01-03 05:23:30 · answer #5 · answered by Willis 2 · 0 0

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How do sleeping pills work?
Is everyone wide awake exactly 4 hrs after taking one?
If you take them too often do they stop working?

2015-08-14 16:49:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It takes long (even 4 hrs) to fall asleep if you take sleeping pills often. Some people take them even during the day to keep their nerves cool. After some time the pills stop working and one has to take higher dose. Dont get into this trap. Read before you sleep. It will make you sleepy.

2007-11-09 22:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by rams 4 · 0 1

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Before you jump to pills, their are always side effects. Try this.. Drink 2 cups of sleepytime tea before bed. Don't excersize right before bed. Wait an hour. Get an app called sleepmaker. And it has rain on it and its so reelaxing! Listen to it at night. Wear comfy clothes. (Sweats and a cotton shirt are the best!) Spray a relaxing perfume on your pillow. Get comfy bedding. Take a hot bath or drink tea without caffeine at night. Also, try reading and don't get on the internet 45 mins before you go to sleep and sleep with ALL the lights off. Gooood luckkk! (:

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