Sleep aids not always the answer

effects that come along with taking these sleep aids. The most popular side effect is known as the “next day” effect. This is when you will feel like you are in a sleepy state for hours after you wake up.

it was the only thing that would help me take my mind off my problems. There was nothing I could do. I would sleep in two-hour intervals during the day.

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In 2005, $300 million was spent on the advertisement of sleeping aids. Sleeping pills are being used more and more every year. Over 42 million prescriptions were filled last year alone, and the numbers of prescriptions have gone up by 60 percent since 2000, according to the New York Times’website.

This is becoming a big issue in the United States because most prescriptions that are being filled are not being cross-referenced with the patient’s background. There are many rare side

Another side effect is sleepwalking. There have been many extreme cases where users of sleep aids have woken up and they find that their refrigerator was raided or their towel rack was ripped off the wall and they have no recollection of doing it.

Sleep aids are used when a person has severe insomnia. They are also used because there are those out there who have trouble falling asleep because their minds are racing and can’t stop thinking.

I had this trouble starting in April of 2005.I had a lot going on in my life, and I just could not put my mind to rest. There were five different thoughts going through my mind all at once.

I would lie in my bed and watch television sometimes until 7 a.m. because