Sleeping pills for teens

[Awesome]

Are sleeping pills for tees on the shelves of pharmacy's? or to be prescribed? Because I have hell getting to sleep I takes me anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours to fall asleep.

EDIT: I actually meant, are there sleeping pills for teens? Not are they for teens.

[avenged7xrocks007]

i've used them to go to sleep and i'm a teen. my mom said it was ok first though. they made me feel really weird when i woke up though

[JunkBondTrader]

It sounds like what you used before may have been benzodiazepines. They are extremely addictive and illegal without prescription, so be careful woth them at least.

Here in the UK you can get something called Nytol OTK which is actually a form of antihistamine. I'd imagine they're OTK in the US too since they tend to be more liberal with pharmaceuticals. They're not quite as effective as benzos but they do the job and carry almost no risk. Just be careful if you mix them with any depressant drugs, including alcohol.

[LKIFMRUG9556]

Have tried melatonin?

[Njathind]

AFAIK In the UK you can only buy herbal sleeping pills without perscription, they would just be on the shelve, and I think you can buy some sleeping pills without a perscription over the counter at a pharmacy. But for eveything else you need a perscription.

[lambo420]

Yeah I second that on the melatonin. Works like a charm.

[CantLiveWithoutYou]

My mom is one of the most knowledgeable people when it comes to human medicine, she gave me a regular ambien when I was maybe 7 or 8, so if it's not bad for an 8-year-old, it's not bad for a teen. But that's only zolpidem, there are a billion out there.

[flumeendeavors]

Yeah there are. I am on some sleeping pills but you do need to have them prescribed to you because a lot of people would probably sell the pills for money as in drug trafficking if they were just over the counter pills.

[xdancing_for_rainx]

I was prescribed Ambien for my insomnia... and it would always put me to sleep within a half hour. I will say though, there were a few nights every once in a while where the medication would make me sorta weird. I have issues with self-harm... so there were a few occassions on the medication that I wouldn't know what I was doing, and harm myself. Then I didn't remember anything about it in the morning. So- just some precautions to consider before taking any sleeping meds.

Other than that, I had been trying the melatonin pills for a while. They're just dietary supplement pills, but they make you drowsy. They used to work really well for me, and I'd probably recommend them as something to try.

Anyway, good luck with your sleeping problems... and hope you find a solution soon:)

[judahtics]

you can always try benadryl. thats what the group homes use unless you're prescribed something by a therapist.

[AllThatYouDreamed]

My mom is one of the most knowledgeable people when it comes to human medicine, she gave me a regular ambien when I was maybe 7 or 8, so if it's not bad for an 8-year-old, it's not bad for a teen. But that's only zolpidem, there are a billion out there.

Um she might be knowledgeable but she's also using mom-brain rather than doctor-brain with that. The dosage of an ambien pill is for that of an adult, not a child, and the side effects I can only imagine would be magnified.

Sleeping pills aren't usually rx'ed to teens because of addictiveness(benzos, mentioned) or side effects (I mean, sleepEATING cmon)

junkbondtrader, is that niquil in the US, because that's OTC(over the counter, assuming same as OTK) but requires ID because it can be used to get drunk off [dumbasses] and used to have pseudoephedrine in it[meth] and US is slow to update laws.

Melatonin is good *if* you have an imbalance already. If your levels are fine it wont work. But its worth a shot I'm preeeetty sure it doesn't have negative side effects of other herbal supplements do.


If it's Rx, don't use it if it isn't prescribed to you.
This is illegal and stupid. Dosages is on weight age and body chem, what's good for 1 is bad for another.


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