Insomnia and side effects of sleeping pills

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Insomnia is a condition in which there is difficulty in falling asleep. There are many types of insomnia, such as taking a long time to fall asleep, sleeping for a short time, waking up frequently in the middle of the night, or waking up and being unable to fall back asleep. If you don’t get enough or poor quality sleep, you will feel lethargic, unrefreshed, tired, and lack of concentration, which can affect your ability to work or study.

As sleeping pills are medications that can help you fall asleep and relieve stress and anxiety. Sleeping pills help people who have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or who wake up in the middle of the night and cannot fall back to sleep, so they turn to sleeping pills to help them sleep better.

Side effects of sleeping pills begin to show when the person becomes addicted to the sleeping pill and cannot sleep without it เว็บพนันออนไลน์ UFABET สมัครง่าย โปรโมชั่นมากมาย. Stopping the drug suddenly or cold turkey can cause withdrawal symptoms and may worsen insomnia. Side effects of sleeping pills can be both short-term and long-term and include:

Short-term side effects

  • Drowsy, tired, Headache, squeamish
  • Confused, dazed, Slow decision making, slow brain processing
  • Diarrhea or constipation
  • Dry mouth
  • Muscle weakness
  • Indigestion, gas in the stomach, colic, stomach tightness

Long-term side effects

  • May lead to depression
  • Sexual dysfunction
  • Risk of accidents and falls
  • Depression of the respiratory system during sleep, which can lead to death.
  • At risk of dementia, especially the elderly, Affects memory, memory loss, or Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.

In addition, use of drugs to treat insomnia: In general, drugs used to treat insomnia are drugs that have the effect of helping to improve sleep. There are many groups, such as Benzodiazepine (BZD) drugs, Non-BZD drugs, synthetic Melatonin drugs, drugs used to treat other psychiatric diseases that have the effect of helping to sleep, or antihistamines.