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Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...

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Mirtazapin is good

Monami
Monami

I took mirtazapin for about two years. it gave me 8 hour sleep most nights.


you shoul talk to your doctor. because it's not a herbal medication. but for me it was much more better than the nighmare of insomnia.

urbangardener
urbangardener
What country are you in? Are you off of this med now? I’ve never heard of it but thank you for posting this information!
sptrout
sptrout
This drug is an old antidepressant, but may (??) be used "off-label" as a sleep aid if one of its side effects cause sleepiness in a specific patient. Although it looks like it may cause the opposite effect in some. I would not think that it would be high on many doctors' list for treatment of sleep issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirtazapine
urbangardener
urbangardener
Thank you, sprout!
Monami
Monami
I live in Albania right now. However my physician has recently changed my pill to clonotril or clonazepam. This one is also good.
Anyone of those should of course be prescribed by your doctor. For me, as I had checked a lot of herbal things and I had insomnia due to anxiety being able to sleep was the major issue.