“Safe” Sleeping Pills.

by Little Miss Attila on March 28, 2009

Preliminary research on sleeping pills that are “non-addictive,” or “have a superior long-term use profile” suggests that, unlike over-the-counter medications, they do work.

Unfortunately, one must take about a million of them to get any relief at all.

Though to be honest, I’m not sure what the international exchange rate is for Lunesta to Ambien, or for Trazedone to Ambien. All I know is that I did not want to get up and read because I was too exhausted to do so—but a few hours later, I gave in and started reading. Now I am staring at my laptop screen with aching eyes, wondering if I might have a chance now, at 2:30 in the morning. Perhaps this is “rebound insomnia,” the result of a zero-Ambien night after I was up to 15 mg. But one would think that 150 mg. of Trazedone would have had some effect other than rendering me too lazy to read or watch a movie.

There is something about counting to 100 over and over for two hours that makes one reluctant to go back into the gladiator’s ring.

“Every day,” my father proclaimed to me twenty years or so ago, “I do two very difficult things.” He seemed to want me to ask what they were, but I knew: after all, I was doing those same two things—though not, perhaps, with the alacrity with which he performed them when he was still in marriage #2, and working a day job.

“You go to sleep, and you get up,” I replied.

In retrospect, I should have asked him. It would have been polite.

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