We assure you that this is not a late April Fool’s Day joke or satirical fake product commentary on our over-medicated society. It is a very real thing you can buy for just $5 from Walgreens and it’s called Zzzquil Nighttime Sleep-Aid Liquid. You guys, IT’S ACTUALLY CALLED ZZZQUIL! The active ingredient is diphenhydramine, the same thing you find in Tylenol PM, Sudafed and Benadryl, except without all those pesky cold and flu fighting ingredients. Cheaper than drugs!
I’ve never been on actual Ambien, but have taken plenty of NyQuil in my day, and it’s a pretty inexpensive sleep aid, assuming you can make it to your bed before passing out with green-stained teeth on the cruel cold tile of your bathroom after swallowing it.
And also, apparently some of you kids take Ambien recreationally? Sounds wild, but at least you don’t concoct some fake mallady to tell your doctor any more if you want to, uh, get drowsy recreationally.
Thanks to Brad for spotting!
[*Brokelyn does not endorse recreational sleep aid abuse]
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Ambien isn't anything like this. Diphenhydramine gives you such crazy trips but it makes you so uncomfortable. I've had so many bad experiences with it where statues came to life and I couldn't stay still for more than 2 seconds because it would feel like I was about to jump out my skin. Ambien is fun, from what I remember. When people tell you that you won't remember anything, they're not lying. I heard bells and tinkering in my closet and I opened it and I saw small brown Smurfs with conveyor belts making beads. In my CLOSET. My fingers were glowing and I woke up on my kitchen floor. It's some crazy stuff. Anyways, ZZZquil is excellent for helping me sleep. I love it.
This is not ambien. and yeah you can get super high off of ambien if it doesn't knock you out. I took it once and didn't get sleepy. Then I started to trip. It was like being super drunk and tripping but I wasn't concerned at all I was super happy. But yeah it scared the shit out of my wife. She had to get her mom to come over and babysit me so she could get sleep before work
Ah, the ZzzQuil scam. Every day there are dozens of people pointing out that this is just super expensive Benadryl on their Facebook page. The moderator of the page then accuses said poster of "spamming" the page & then banning them. I know, I was one of them.
This is not anything new, clever marketing of generic benadryl.
Well for over a year now I havent been able to sleep. If I do fall asleep its for one to two hours thats it. I started taking Unisome Ultra Strength 50mg. At first one Unisome 50mg knock me out within an hour. Then of course longer I took it the more I had to go up. I was finally taking up to 9 a night and sometimes that still didnt put me to sleep. Benadryal was just a joke to me. And I'm actually looking at the Benadryal bottle right now. It takes 4 teaspoons liquid (each teaspoon equals 12.5 mg) to equal one Extra Strength Unisome. I've been to the doctor. End up I have some hormones that is causing me not able to sleep. The hormone medicine Im taking hasnt help. Unfortunately I havent been able to go back to my doctor b/c I was in a very bad car wreak in July. It was a miracle I made it through. During the accident my foot was cut half way open and my foot and ankle was broken. My foot and ankle doctor was very worried b/c I couldnt sleep and I was hurting so bad. He said you need sleep to help you heal. So he prescribe me Ambien 5mg which I got the generic of Ambien which is Zolpidem. The first night it knock me out like within 10 mins. I woke up maybe twice during the night but it was so great to have sleep. First time in over a year! The second night samething. I was like thank you God! But after that nothing. I finally ask my doctor could I take two ambien instead of one. He said he didnt like me to but if that help go ahead. So right now 2 ambien has help me sleep. My problem now is he prescribe me a month supply of Ambien for 5mg. Well its only been half a month and I'm out. He wrote me another prescription but since it wasnt written a certain way, the pharmacy will not fill it until another 15 days. So lastnight I only had one Ambien. It never did anything. So I took the ZZZ Quil nighttime sleep aid, nothing. So then I took 2 Unisome, nothing. So then I took another dose of ZZZ Quil and I finally fell asleep. Its awful when you cant sleep. Its even worst when you cant sleep and hurting. Of course the time I found out the pharmacy couldnt fill the medicine its right at 5pm on a Friday and Monday is Labor Day. I wish I was like everyone else and could take just one dose of ZZZ Quil, Benadryal or even Ambien and knock out but I dont. Then I dont understand why my doctor just cant call in the Ambien. I have to actually pick up the prescription??? Its not pain medicine. I have found that Family Dollar sells their brand of Unisome 50mg. I believe you get 30 for $4 which I know Rite Aid brand is $8 for 30. I think Walmart brand of Unisome you can get 96 softgels for $7 or $8. I dont have a Sams card so I dont know how much its there. I dont know how much it cost my bf yesterday for the ZZZ Quil.
I haven't slept w/o medication for over 40 years. I take 30 mg of Temazepam (prescription), 1 melatonin 5mg & 1 full serving of ZZZQuill a half hr b4 going to bed. I wake up 4-5 hrs later & take 1 15 mg of Temazepam (prescription), and usually sleep for another few hrs.
Many people can fall asleep in a chair. I've had trouble sleeping since I was a child, as have other family members. It's just a fact of life, some people can never slow down their brain enough to fall asleep w/o an aide. Only people that can't sleep w/o help could ever understand this.
Benadryl Allergy is EXACTLY the same thing--there are no "pesky cold and flu" ingredients, read the label. This product is a joke, just buy the Benadryl or one of its thousands of generic copies for a lot less. ZZZQuil is nothing but hype!
Of you can just buy Walmart's brand of "Nightime sleeping aid" which is the exact same thing as zzzquil except in a pill and 5 times cheaper.
If you have restless leg syndrome OTC products such as Zzzquil and Benadryl will make it WORST!
Seriously? Ambien is WAY more powerful and way different than benedryl. I can take 6-8 benedryl and it does nothing to me, ambien knocks me out... or if I force myself to stay awake causes hallucinations, hence the idiots that take it recreationally. Do some research before posting stuff like this.