Do you take any sleep aids to help you get a good nights rest?  

No, I use to. They make me so groggy. I have been using meditation has a relaxation technique to fall asleep faster and more heavily.

i just smoke a bowl before bed and it knocks me right out and lets me sleep through the night and in the morning i feel great!

i used to have really bad problems sleeping until i started doing that and on nights i could get to sleep i would end up waking up every couple of hours and then it would take me an hour to fall back to sleep so i never felt rested and was always tired. i don't have that problem now and it is so wonderful

One of the main problems my fibromyalgia causes is insomnia. I have always had trouble sleeping, even before I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Some doctors think insomnia is a leading cause OF fibromyalgia. Our bodies can't function when we go for a long period of time without sleep. So, everything gets messed up.

I tried Tylenol PM for a while, but it made my BP go up. Then a doctor gave me Ambiem and the lowest dose...cut in half..was still too strong. I slept for 14 hours until my hubby woke me because he was worried.

Then I was told to try Melatonin, a natural sleep aid found in the vitamin section. It worked for a while and then quit. So, I was told to try Trazodone. Now, it really helped me sleep but I was dizzy the whole day afterwards. I thought maybe I just needed time to get used to it so I have it a month. I was dizzy every day, so bad that I needed help walking at times. So, I had to stop that.

Now I'm back to hardly ever sleeping. I can go 2 or 3 days with only a couple hours sleep. When I go back to the doctor I'll see if there is anything else. The biggest problem is my medication sensitivity stuff. I don't know what I'm going to do.

I hope your get to sleeping good again!

If I don't sleep, I just don't sleep.
I don't take sleeping pills. I tried one a long time ago and it idn't help one little bit. So if I have to stay up until I am so tired I can't keep my eyes open then that is what I will do.

Every so often I will take something to sleep. But its over the counter and its not habit forming either. I feel better when Ive had a good nights sleep.

Just melatonin and Vitamic C tablets when we travel--It is Emergen-C's "Sleep Health" Night Time blend with B-6, calcium, and magnesium also in it, which I don't really think of so much as a sleep aid as just a nice bit of extra nutrition. I pretty much always get a good night's rest anyway, although like a little kid full of life and adventure I hate to go to bed each night. Once there, though I usually drop off immediately and sleep straight through.

For the longest time I have not had to take anything to help me sleep, although the last two night I have been unable to sleep well at all. But I remember a few years ago when I was having problems sleeping and so decided to try some new herbal thingies that had not been out long. I followed the instructions and took them and went to bed, they did not work. So I took another couple, waited a couple of hours, nothing. I finally took another two, next thing I knew I must have gone to sleep and I did not wake up until evening time the next day.

I love to sleep!

I don't take anything to sleep any more, usually, but over last year I had to take copious amounts of valium every night in order to finally fall asleep at half past five in the morning

I still have slight insomnia but it's nowhere near as bad now

No, I have not needed sleep aids any time in recent memory. I know that some pain relievers and some antihistamines have that effect, to make one drowsy. I usually am asleep within minutes, maybe even seconds of hitting the bed. Some experts say that is a sign of sleep deprivation, to be that tired.

Yep! I cannot sleep without one. That sucks big time but I have to admit I am dependent on sleeping pills. I am on meds for Bi Polar and they knock me out every night. Without them I get no sleep whatsoever. I used to be able to sleep fine but not anymore. My mind won't shut down no matter how tired I am. It sucks. So when I run out of my meds and have to wait a couple of days to get them back, I take PM's or nerve pills to help calm me down. Yeah it is pretty bad when you have to rely on pills just to get sleep.