Misc Sleeping drugs

[andrey]

Yes. Almost all sedatives mess up your REM cycle. Sure, you fall asleep more easily, but the quality of sleep is worse.

Trimipramine doesnt. It „brightens“ REM, whereas many other antidepressants shorten it. According to studies(copied from wiki): „Trimipramine is unique in that it is an exception and produces antidepressant effects without compromising or otherwise affecting REM sleep. Even long-term treatment with trimipramine for up to 2 years has not been found to suppress REM sleep.“.

 

[ladymj]

Surprised nobody has mentioned this one; it's -very- effective for me and with the most of minimal side effects:

Trazadone 50mg

I will take one right at bedtime and I am I am out within ten minutes. What I really like about it though is the lack of grogginess /haze when I get up. Even after only four or five hours of sleep. But you need to make an effort to get up and get going. If you malinger around the bedsheets too long you will likely fall back asleep. Another plus for me are VIVID-ASS dreams. 90% of the time they are awesome and I'm back with my family having a good time. The depth , vivacity, and extreme detail from the dreams is very uncanny. Never have developed nitemares or anything overtly negative, but the realistic, cinematic detail in the dreams can be intense upon waking up & recalling the experience.

I only need to take one sporadically 2-3 a month at most. There is no urge to redose or dependency issues with it that I can perceive. It's very much nearly a perfect drug for insomnia in my case, and perplexed why it's not more well known for this (it is off-label use for insomnia , whereas it's "official" use is as an anti-depressant.)

my friend has the best sleep with this as well. I think I am going to ask my doc. I have been on Ambien 5mg, the up to 10mg for months and I stopped taking it because I have the bad habit of not being in bed and even IF I am I still do wild stuff I barely remember. I call it truth serum I also don’t like how my brain is foggy and my memory was really starting to become affected.